On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On 10/26/09, Bruce Pourciau <bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> wrote:
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.
I think I found a good candidate. Looking on Wikipedia for Humanist
fonts [1], I stumbled upon Optima, originally designed by H. Zapf. The
Font Catalogue provides a clone called URW Classico [2]. It is
shipped with TeX Live.
Liviu
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist_sans-serif#Classification
[2] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/optima/
I've never tried Palatino and Optima together, but they have the same
daddy (Zapf).
Bruce
