Since February 2010, I have been running my own design company. As it goes, I have not yet taken the time to properly design my own identity—because client work always comes first, right?
I think that by the one year celebration of my company next month, I should at least have decided on some very basic stuff. One of the things that I would like to do by then is choose the corporate typeface I will use in my communication. These are the candidates on my shortlist:
Communication of course, also includes digital communication. It is important that I can find a typeface which I can use for stationery and for the design of my website and other web related projects that need similar branding. After doing a little research on websites like Typekit, Fontdeck and Fonts.com, I came to the staggering conclusion that only one of these typefaces is easily available via a webfont serving site: FF Dagny on Typekit. Which is an extraordinary, beautiful typeface.
If anyone has any great suggestions for fonts that also have an awesome digital counterpart, I’d be happy to hear about those suggestions in the comments! Meanwhile, my search continues. I am not satisfied with the idea that my final choice has to depend solely on technical limitations.
There’s always “older” alternatives like cufon or maybe even sifr, no? My vote would go out to FF Nexus Sans, I think it’s gorgeous, but TL;DR applies to the license and I don’t know if you’re even allowed to embed it in a website.