Secession is a very readable typeface, suitable for short blocks of text. Personally, I have grown a bit weary of the standard sans-serif fonts one sees all the time. However well designed they may be, they have become tiresome from shear repetition. I have begun using Secession as a fresh and distinctive substitute. You may want to do the same.
Like Künstler Grotesk, Secession is one of a number of typeface designs that attempts to reconcile Germany's blackletter tradition with the international familiarity of roman letterforms in a simple, robust design suitable for meeting the demands of a modern industrial economy, while rejecting the extraneous ornamentation of the departing Victorian era. Unlike Künstler Grotesk, Secession was designed with a lower case. Secession Bold was originally jointly released as Halbfette Secession by Bauer & Company of Stuttgart and H. Berthold AG of Berlin around 1898. The rest of the family was designed by HiH.
The basic family of four, Text, Oblique, Bold and BoldOblique are available in two versions: one set with the standard contemporary lining or ranging numerals for spreadsheets and tables and one set of old-style figures, Secession OSF for use with text. Cousins include ExtraBold, SCOSF Text, and two multi-lingual versions of the text weight. Secession ML Text includes the Latin Extended-A character set in unicode format plus a couple of ligatures and a few strays. Secession GR ML Text has all the characters of the ML version plus the unicode Greek set. Secession ML Text and Secession GR ML Text have been released and can be found with Secession Text at Myfonts.com.
All Secession fonts are available at MyFonts.com
