Typophile

Suisse BP font or swiss

JENNA1

Trying to work out if it is worth purchasing this Suisse BP font (from http://swisstypefaces.com/) They let you download a font test font which is very helpful so I've been able to use it on layouts.

My company would have to buy it, but not sure how eager they will be to purchase a font which is very, very similar to Swiss, or even Helvetica which we already have.

Have you any opinions of this font?

(It would be used in magazine editorial - not for vast amounts of body copy, but more for box copy/headlines/caption text etc)

thanks!

Worth it? You have to figure out that one out on your own. Possible plus: more "uniform" than Helvetica, not so squarish, good OT handling, better text figures, nice a & l alternates. Possible minus: The northwestern part of the lowercase s looks slightly ankward, Æ is too wide and the Ø slash is too thin.

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