Book font like Trinité

[_Philo_Calhoun_]

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?

[Guest]

Perhaps Underware's 'Dolly' might fit the bill?

Cheers
Les

[_Philo_Calhoun_]

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.

[_Philo_Calhoun_]

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.

[Mathieu Christe CJBG]

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

[Neil_Keller]

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

[jcsiegrist]

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