Typophile

Solid, cheapish sans-serif family to go with Optima?

rockbadger

I work for a donations-based organisation which has a logotype set in Optima.

I need to find a font suitable for all written communication - from letters to policy documents, business cards etc. We need 20 licences or so, but don't have a huge purse to play with.

Gotham was used on a business card design which looks nice but getting lots of licences is too costly.

Museo Sans was looked at due to its similarity (and free versions) but it's too quirky, and probably too wide for body copy. But I noticed it has good discounts when buying lots of licences.

I then looked at Calluna Sans, also from exljbris since I knew there'd be the good deals on multiple licences.

Is Calluna Sans a reasonable choice for this? If not, any suggestions?

Thanks a lot for reading.

Frank ADEBIAYE

I don't think you need 20 licences or so. Just do your templates on a 1 CPU, convert the layout to fixed bitmap images and that's it.

Pablo Impallari

Or your can look for LIBRE fonts.
I have some at www.impallari.com
And there are a lot more on www.google.com/webfonts

Frode Bo Helland

I'd have a look at what Stone Type Foundry offers. Sumner's stuff is real high quality, unique, affordable, but perhaps a little lacking on the OT side. It's all very muted and solid, just like Optima.

rockbadger

Thanks for the suggestions.

I think we do need lots of copies/licences as general correspondence will need to be created using the font (not just headers, etc.).

Pablo - I'd come across a few of your fonts before but not all. Cabin looks like it might be suitable - will have to look and play around. Looking forward to Quattrocento's expansion too.

Frank - thanks also. Since we're not doing anything particularly advanced the OT features aren't too much of a worry. I'll be looking around what Stone Type Foundry has to offer.

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