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_Philo_Calhoun_
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February 29, 2008
Question

Book font like Trinité

  • February 29, 2008
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I'm looking for a book font similar to Enschede Font Foundry's Trinité but not so ridiculously expensive. There are passing similarities to DTL Documenta, but Trinité looks much less utilitarian. ITC New Winchester also has some of the same features, but it lacks many extended characters and it's kerning is worse. Monotype Columbus also has some similarities, but doesn't do well with smaller font sizes (10). Any suggestions?
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    jcsiegrist
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    January 13, 2021

    Take a look at Marc Weymann's Formal...

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    Neil_Keller
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    March 12, 2008
    Philo,

    Also be aware that if you need to purchase a new font for a client's work, it normally is legitimately billable to the job, much as you would bill other out-of-pocket expenses.

    Neil
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    _Philo_Calhoun_Author
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    March 7, 2008
    After trying dozens of different fonts, I've discovered there really isn't anything like trinite. It is one of thos rare fonts that looks good in small or large sizes and takes much less fiddling with leading etc and layout to look great. It is at once elegant and unfatigingly readable for long text.
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    Mathieu Christe CJBG
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    March 17, 2021

    Hi Philo,

     

    Out of curiousity, reading your conclusion would you still consider Trinité “so ridiculously expensive”?

    If this typeface is unique, so well crafted so that it’ll save you time when typesetting and return an impeccable result, why not invest? TEFF is an independant foundry worth supporting as well as the designers.

     

    Mathieu

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    _Philo_Calhoun_Author
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    March 1, 2008
    Thank you for the suggestion. Dolly is a beautiful font, but more sparkly than trinité. The closest font I've seen to trinité in darkness and contrast is a fairly different font - Feijoa, but trinité is certainly more lovely. I should have specified, I'm looking for something like the trinité roman wide #2.
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    Anonymous
    February 29, 2008
    Perhaps Underware's 'Dolly' might fit the bill?

    Cheers
    Les
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