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Fashion mag font

scarlettx

I'm trying to find a headline font for a fashion magazine that's both contemporary and elegant ... any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Needs to work well with a san serif font like Agenda.

Thanks but this is more a magazine dealing wtih grown ups ... a haute couture type leaning, showcasing the big name runway shows in Paris/NY/Milan so it needs to be suitably grown up but still contemporary!

Thanks, Tiffany .. all helpful suggestions although I'm leaning away from fonts like Didot as one of our stable of magazines is using a similar font and this has to have an entirely different look. It's a tricky one ...

Thanks so much Tiffany, you are a wellspring of information. Some great suggestions there, especially Eldorado & Jannon.
Storm has some great fonts.

DELICATO might be a good option, being a well crafted text face suited for books and magazines. Useful pdf are available for download. Have a look here; http://www.macrhino.com

Cheers/SH

Yep, Delicato is just the kind of thing I'm looking for. Thanks.

Cally I would suggest H&FJ's Requiem if Town & Country weren't already using it. Fabian Baron did some amazing work with Didot for Italian Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. What about Porchez Typofonderie's Ambroise?

Requiem: http://www.typography.com/catalog/requiem/index.html
Didot: http://www.typography.com/catalog/didot/index.html
Ambroise: http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/Ambroise

> Fair enough.

What about Font Bureau's Eldorado or Prensa? http://fontbureau.com/fonts/Eldorado http://fontbureau.com/fonts/Prensa

or Storm's Jannon or Serapion or Tyfa http://www.stormtype.com/jannon.html http://www.stormtype.com/serap.html http://www.stormtype.com/tyfa.html

FontShop has Absara (gorgeous angularity) http://www.fontshop.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.fontpackage&displayfontid=FF.11455.0.0

Have you already settled on a sans? Sebastian http://www.stormtype.com/sebastian.html Dyna Grotesk http://www.stormtype.com/dynag.html

If you do use Agenda, ask for an alternate lowercase a with your license, you will find that curly a gets distracting sometimes.

Display faces with text counterparts:
Minion Display
FB Garamond Display
Miller Display

Less Expected:
Tschicholina
FF Meta Hairline
Agency Thin

To use sparingly for ooze and ahhs:
Missionary

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