If you MUST use a serif font then I'd say either Rotis or Meta. Both of which have been mentioned above. Rotis, as you can dump the serif when you've come to your senses
Helvetica for body copy. In fact Helvetica for everything. Full Stop
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Nexus serif really nice nearly abstract internals. One of the dictionary's use it.
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Good call IamSam, Nexus is a nice family (though the slab Nexus Mix bears more than a passing resemblance to the earlier PMN Caecilia).
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Right, anybody on this thread who understands any of it, is a weirdo.
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Century Schoolbook? Bloody hell, that takes me back. Used to use that when I was doing books back in the 70's. Along with Times, Univers, Helvetica. Optima isn't something I'd ever want to use as a body type, and it's more than a little dated now. Prefer Helvetica to Univers, but again, I wouldn't really want to use it as a body type. Perfectly readable, but not distinctive enough for a magazine. Trouble is, there are thousands of fonts out there, and identifying and recognising them is way beyond me now. I was having this exact conversation with our studio manager, someone I've worked with in book publishing and on Macs for over thirty years.
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I'd look at new century schoolbook - a more upto date cut, Linotype or bitstream font houses off top of my head. Personally I prefer sans serif for large blocks of copy
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