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Rick Wallace

I haven't designed a menu in 20 years - so I'm well out of practice. Looking for typeface (family) recommendations that has a "thai look", and reads well at smaller sizes (take out menu is small). I'm donating my time to help them out - their current materials is as bad as I have ever seen, but the food is a good as anything I have ever had. My budget is about $75, give or take. I just can't seem to find anything in my library that looks good. I already designed a great logo, if I do say so myself, so I'm ready to get this done. A search on myfonts didn't help much. 

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Kevin Thompson

I wouldn’t try to use a Thai-inspired face throughout the menu—stick to something neutral, like a nice humanist sans serif, for the majority of the copy and only use a display face for headings (at the most).

Google Fonts has a nice selection of typefaces that also can be downloaded and used for print work.

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Rick Wallace

I probably should have been more descriptive... not looking a display face with lots of curves or artifacts... more something slightly different - a thin gothic with unusual caps or a serif that has some uniqueness... maybe I'll go find my old FontBureau CD...

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Rick Wallace

need more subtle, not so obvious... probably going to have to invest $90 on this donation project and buy LAM.  Restaurant lighting is pretty low so I have to have a family with varying weights and good kerning. I'm out of practice but I did several hundred menus from 1992-2000. 

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bellefont
On 10/9/2017 at 7:23 PM, Rick Wallace said:

need more subtle, not so obvious... probably going to have to invest $90 on this donation project and buy LAM.  Restaurant lighting is pretty low so I have to have a family with varying weights and good kerning. I'm out of practice but I did several hundred menus from 1992-2000. 

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This looks really good! You just gave me an idea!

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