On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
In his wonderful book The Elements of Typographical Style, Robert Bringhurst suggests "pair[ing] serifed and unserifed faces on the basis of their inner structure." And he goes on to give examples: one might pair a modern geometric serifed face like Berthold Bodoni with a geometric unserifed face like Futura. Now Palatino is based on Renaissance humanist forms -- it looks like its written with a broad-nibbed pen -- and it would not mix well with Futura, for example. But it might mix well with Syntax, say, which is an unserifed face also based on Renaissance forms.
Bruce, I read that book a number of years ago just to get a sense of the subject. I'm not a graphics person so I don't easily see the subtle distinctions that graphically-enabled folks do. I do like the Palatino typeface; it's elegant and professional, IMNSHO. Beyond that I leave it to you experts. :-) Rich
