Avenir Help (Bold)

Alan G · 07-01-2007, 10:55 PM

If you go directly to the Linotype website (e.g., here) you can download type specimen PDFs that should give you a good handle on what will work best for your project.

hewligan · 07-01-2007, 10:57 PM

Ah, it's Frutiger's quite neat - except that only he ever used it - numerical system for classifying font weights.

The first digit is the weight, while the second is the type (i.e. roman, italic, oblique, etc).

Generally speaking, if you want a bold, you go up two weights from your base font, so if you're using the roman, you would ideally want a 75 bold - which as you say, doesn't exist. The 65 medium will probably be too light, so you're better off with the 85 heavy.

Having said that, I find Avenir actually tends to look better in lighter weights. Have you considered instead using the 45 Book as your base and the 65 Medium as your bold? I don't know your specific usage here, but generally speaking, that would be my choice.

tZ · 07-01-2007, 11:04 PM

I have book,medium, black and heavy- no bold

urstwile · 07-03-2007, 07:12 AM

The 85 weight (heavy) should suffice for bold. Oddly, Avenir doesn't have a 75, it skips directly from 65 to 85, missing 75 entirely.

vxhorusxv · 07-17-2007, 08:55 PM

I totally agree with Hewligan's suggestion to use the book weight. I am an Avenir addict - the way some people are Futura addicts, which is fitting I guess since Avenir is Adrian Frutiger's "Futura".

My biggest pleasure is mixing light/heavy weights on the same line. I did it a business with two locations and used the lighter weight for the name and then used the bold for the location name with no wordspace between them. So it was "Bob'sNYC" and "Bob'sMiami". [The business name wasn't Bob's :-D, but you get the point.]

Avenir Help (Bold)

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