comic sans





(sorry, i had to)

Just a few suggestions. They're fun, playful, and not too too cute.

Cheers!

http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/CostaPTF
http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/Anisette
http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/AnisettePetite

Anisette is successfully used in a Teen magazine as you seems to describe in Spain... I think anyway what will make the difference is specially the contrast of various typefaces used, not specially one alone.

Can't find more than that use ;)
http://elflady.com/legolasgreenleaf/misc/misc2/images/bravo03nov_001.jpg
http://www.danradcliffe.co.uk/superpopmag_0904_pg2.jpg
(funny, eh, who are these guys?)

Stephen, check out Font Diner for display fonts. But its the colors more than the fonts that squew the magazine towards a teenage girl market. I would research other competing teen magazines on the web for color pallets.

Optima is indeed feminine, but it's way too "mature", even cold.
Pascal would be nice, but there's no [good] digital version yet.

Costa has always been my favorite Porchez font, and I think it might be very good for this.
I hope that doesn't say anything bad about me...

hhp

i'd use "drone" by barnbrook.





it must be perfect because it's made "for text without content" ...

I would love to help but really don

I did a prototype for a teen magazine a few years ago using a combination of FF Sari and FF Cocon, with a handwritten script (whose name escapes me) as an accent. Something about the rounded shapes and occasionally non-traditional letterforms said "young" to me.

But I agree with Daniel -- it's usually color, layout (busy, lots of info-chunks) and use of slangy, casual language that brand something as being for teens.

my suggestions would be bliss, cronos and sauna.

btw. i fell in love with costa, especially the specimen. nice work tif. do you sell them?

http://www.typography.net/type/bliss.htm
http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=ADT0002943
http://www.underware.com

oops, the underware link doesnt work. this is the correct ones;

http://www.underware.nl/site2/index.php3?id1=sauna&id2=roman

Billo
Alba

Stephen,

For headline faces, Oxtail or Luminance could be appropriate?
Check them out and others at MRF; http://www.macrhino.com

Cheers/SH

What's the name of the publication? What size are you designing for? (dimensions, that is); and do you have a colour scheme worked out at this point? (Obviously all these aspects relate to the font choice, right?)

What a fun project!

Thanks, Romesh. Costa is sold on the Typofonderie site, if that is what you are asking. The specimen is not for re-sell, unless you really want to buy one. :^D In which case, email me off-line and we can discuss the price. :^D Otherwise you would probably be best served by contacting Jean François through his site.