“…the sexiest numbers I’ve seen in some time.”
A Fonts for Financials mailing from Hoefler & Frere-Jones includes some incredibly beautiful typefaces they’ve developed that play well with numbers. A sampling includes tabular figures (monospaced numbers, meaning “farewell, Courier!”) using Gotham and Sentinel:
Or setting indices (numbers in circles, apparently), using Whitney:
As Casey wrote this morning, “these are the sexiest numbers I’ve seen in some time.” I love ’em.