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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
As for typefaces...I am lucky to have a fairly good supply available to me, but few really stood out as winners for my viewing size (8-10pt range). Some of the Adobe Opticals sets include a caption size which works somewhat well for this, and the best choices I have are Arno Pro Caption and Chaparral Caption, though I'm trying out Warnock Pro Caption also and it's not too bad. FF Avance is highly readable and dark even at pretty small sizes, but I don't care for it that much.
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The one I've been enjoying so far is
H&FJ's Sentinel. It's a slab serif with a good x-height and only modest modulation in stroke width (and six weights--I've been using Book and Semibold, but I want to try a book using Light for the body text). I don't want to mess around with modifying stylesheets too much, so I've been on the lookout for something that works well (for me) at whatever point size the 505 defaults to when the size is undeclared (seems to be 9-10pt). My only issue with it is that since the 505 doesn't use ligatures there are certain character combinations ('fl' and 'fi' mostly) that leave a tiny "dark spot" on the page. But minor coloration issues aside, I've been very pleased with it.