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I am working on a proposal that my company is putting together. It's a huge binder filled with a lot of financial info as well as photographs and architectural renderings of our stores.

We are using Neutraface as the display face, but I want to use a serif that complements Neutraface and is legible, hopefully making long financial pages less dull.

Suggestions?

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Neutraface has those tall, spindly ascenders, which makes it a little hard to match. I'd suggest an antiqua like Koch Antiqua or Eva SG, but those are too overtly calligraphic and achieve much of their effects through low x-height rather than tall ascenders. Also, it's too spindly for use as a text setting.

Filosofia has a similar amount of personality as Neutraface, and is roughly the same age.

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Thanks Forrest. I forgot to mention that I'll only be setting Neutraface in all caps for heads like "Marketing." For trivia's sake, I'll be using

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Stupid question moment: In Illustrator CS, how do I type in smallcaps without having to cut and paste

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Thanks Tiffany,

I found it about a minute after posting my question.

Okay, another Neutraface related question. The project I'm working on also requires that keywords be die-cut into polyethelene dividers that will be in the binder. So that requires a stencil be created for certain letters. Here is a rough draft of what I have come up with. I'll fine tune the stencils later. I sure hope Christian Schwartz never sees this
neutra diecut

Are the stencils positioned okay? I'm particularly concerened with the R.

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Damn, Tiffany. I was looking at that A and thinking the

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I was thinking same thing about A Tiffany.

O stencil What about this O? Based on the alternate Q.

Hope this message doesn't get cut off.

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