The Technician use four different typefaces, each of them designed for a specific part of the paper.  Furthermore, these typefaces have different weights that are used for certain occasions, defined in this guide.

Torinio Modern is used exclusively for our flag and section headers.  It’s nice to read in small chunks such as a section title, but not much use thereafter.  This font is our “identity.” It should NOT be used for anything but the nameplate, section heads and standing heads.

Minion is a serif face that comprises the majority of the type on the page.  We use it for the body, most headlines, bylines and staff titles.  This typeface is great in that it has a variety of weights and forms, many of which we have specific circumstances under which we will use them. The ‘display’ weight of this face is absolutely gorgeous.

Myriad Pro is our secondary font.  As a sans serif, it makes for a good headline font along with captions and other snippets of text where a little variety and clarity is necessary.  Like with most sans serif font, its best to use in smaller chunks and thus we’ll rarely set a whole story in this type.  For caption and breakouts this face is ideal.  The ‘condensed’ form reads very well.  Myriad Pro is an Open Type font, giving us access to more characters and more type sophistication.

Bell Gothic is another sans serif face that we use and in two specific areas: RED or a major news story. As one can glean from the name of the face, its origins arise from its use in telephone books – hence the ‘Bell.’  It’s a bit clunky while not feeling too boxy and thus is a great way to add umph, to say, a major win over UNC?  Yeah, that sounds good.