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ALL ABOARD
ALL ABOARD
THE EXLJBRIS EXPRESS: MUSEO AND SANS
THE EXLJBRIS EXPRESS: MUSEO AND SANS
FREIGHTAGE
Museo and Museo Sans are
available in several freights.
Er, weights.
Use these to
your advantage by setting
display text in light weights
for even
typographic color
,
or heavier weights for pop.
ROLLING STOCK
Web layouts, like railroads,
must oblige a hodgepodge
of constituent aesthetics.
Our job is
crud mitigation
.
Helvetica can understudy
both Museo and Sans, but it
isn
ʼ
t a perfect choice.
COUPLING
Linking serif with sans can
be difficult, but typefaces
designed as siblings make
things much easier! Use
the free Museo Sans italic
,
for instance, in your 500-
weig ht Museo.
And more.
RAIL GAUGE
You might as well bu y that
as-seen-on-TV locomotive
alarm clock at this point,
because there’s no hope of
graceful recovery from this
metaphor. Relax with your
hobo soup and read on…
Rail gauge is like leading, especially for Museo with its transitive pipelike serifs. The ideal distance between two lines of Museo
depends on factors like its typeset size and measure, of course, but you’ll find long lines of M useo set surprisingly well with
tight line-height, probably because individual words and letters connect well horizontally and keep the reader’s eye on track.