Define "looks nice"; better yet, show us an image of "looks nice." One man's fish is another man's poisson...

I understand what you mean I thought the examples written down was enough. I suppose keywords would be elegant, formal, contemporary.

Garamond, and Georgia come to mind.

Didot

STKaiti

Bodoni Antiqua

The thing is that the field you define is very, very large – there are probably hundreds or thousands of typefaces, that might match your query. So any additional input you can give would be nice.

I don't know what else to provide.how can I help refine it?

What's a nice-looking ogonek to you? How should it be constructed? That should narrow it down a bit.

Try Minion.

and

Have a look at:

http://www.textism.com/textfaces/
http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=587

Which version of Garamond do you like? The pre-installed one in the Microsoft Office Package, which is just called "Garamond", or a Garamond that came with an Adobe application, like "Adobe Garamond" or even "Garamond Premiere Pro", or another differently called Garamond?

If you have only the one from the MS Office installation, then you can buy a different one. The Office Garamond is actually a from a different designer, not Garamond himself, and it is as well too light to use it for text. So buy yourself a decent version. The ones named from Adobe are very good choices. Alternatives are Sabon, Augereau, GaramondFB by FontBureau, Granjon, and many others.

Or get a free (and still incomplete, and maybe not as neat) one. URW "Garamond No8", based on Stempel Garamond can be found in the URW font package here: http://www.artifex.com/downloads/ or the ambitious "EB Garamond" in Regular, Italic and Bold.

Greger (Sahson) —

Part of the problem with the examples you offered is that, for a typophile, typefaces like Didot and Bodoni Antiqua are on the opposite side of the spectrum from Garamond or Georgia.

It’s like going on a wine forum and saying, “I’m looking for recommendations for a good Burgundy. I like Chardonnay and Riesling. What can you suggest?”

That’s why folks are probing for more information.

@ Kentlew, Sorry for being a complete noob. :(

@ Snow is nigh, The OpenOffice Garamond is one I am most familar with.

I only just got interested because I read paper form media, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, The Economist, and Worche all have different fonts, and I read the industry standard is a Times form. AFR seems to use a Times.

So this perked my intrigue.

Perhaps Gentium would be useful, if you what you want is a good font for conlang use? It's a readable (and free) text face with a lot of diacritics and phonetic symbols.

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Gentium

What's it for? And what adjectives would you use to describe the feel of whatever you are making?

I gather the stuff from TypeTogether has admirable diaritics, if that's what you're mainly concerned with.

Take a look at some of the packages Adobe has for fonts.

Great place to start building your collection, here's one for only 100: Adobe Type Basics

Happy font-hunting.