Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-27 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/26/09, Bruce Pourciau 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

Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/26/09, Bruce Pourciau 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

Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Bruce On 10/26/09, 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 f

Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-26 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: I am trying to figure which Sans and Typewritter fonts to use in combination with Palatino (or the TeX Gyre Pagella extension). Liviu, That's an interesting question. I use Palatino as my default

Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-26 Thread Rich Shepard
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 Ber

Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: I am trying to figure which Sans and Typewritter fonts to use in combination with Palatino (or the TeX Gyre Pagella extension). Liviu, That's an interesting question. I use Palatino as my default typeface and leave the sans and typewriter choices a

free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all I am trying to figure which Sans and Typewritter fonts to use in combination with Palatino (or the TeX Gyre Pagella extension). In an incidental discussion on the ML [1], the non-free Palatino Sans typeface [2] was suggested. I am wondering whether any free versions of Palatino Sans