I asked this on Twitter last night and wanted to collect the results somewhere and open it up to others to chime in!
Favorite "k"
Hey type nerds, what is your favorite "K" set in?
@jbrewer Gotham.
@jbrewer Futura Extra Bold or Tungsten
@jbrewer tired of museo sans, but still love that ‘k’.
@jbrewer foro has my current cool k vote.
@karenmcgrane @jbrewer In AlphaSymbolic! http://bit.ly/UcBwkm
@jbrewer klavika!
@karenmcgrane @jbrewer I have to say, I think I'll always be partial to Bookman Bold Italic. http://t.co/CVmt9bU2
@jbrewer Museo Sans has a beautiful K
@jbrewer Knoll poster (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KjttnOjyHZ8/TBahf80gsVI/AAAAAAAAAHk/UeN-XD2dX9Q/s1600/vignelli_knoll_poster.jpg)
@jbrewer Helvetica. And I'm not a Helvetica die-hard by any means, but I love how the arm meets the leg & it always reminds me of Vignelli's
@jbrewer As a “stand alone on a poster” K then I'll go for Metric or Neuzeit.
@JBrewer @PaulDHunt’s “Source Sans Pro”.
@jbrewer The alternate swash K in Epic from @positype.
@positype Magneta is a close second. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/positype/magneta/book/glyphs/459671/380 @jbrewer
<a href="typofonderie.com from Typofonderie.
<a href="klim.co.nz lowercase italic k from Klim Type Foundry.
Josh Brewer added Josh Long.
I love the "k" from Tungsten, and although I'm not usually a slab serif fan, the "k" in Vitesse is nice as a standalone block element. Both are from H&FJ, typography.com
Oh, and the absolutely most beautiful "k" would have to go to FF Meta Serif as well. Fontfont.com Gorgeous.
I've always loved this lowercase k swash in Bookman. There was a sign in the town I grew up in that was set in it, maybe it said Meadowbrook, or Longbrook, or something like that.
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It communicates all the florid swashes and twirls of the alternate Bookman sorts while still looking fine on its own — so many of the others look really strange when alone. Bookmania is a great digital revival of all those alternate Bookman letterforms.
Always found both the upper and lowercase k's of Walbaum to be quite clever and not-at-all cloying at text sizes. Storm's 2010 iteration shows it in fine form:
The k in coquette, U/lc both, are amongst my faves too.
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