Send Them on a Date

Head over heart.

Evaluate Archer and Apollo’s potential based on their common past.

how these types match up:

Archer

heritage, year

American, 2001

virtues

Comfort, courtesy

Apollo

heritage, year

Swiss, 1964

virtues

Harmony, versatility

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Archer

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Apollo

geometric forms

slab serifs

lighter weights

ball
terminals

vertex raised
above baseline

blunt serifs

sharp beaks

broad capitals

dense stroke weights

open apertures

reevaluate options

Whoopsie.

Both have a lightness in weight that works at a range of sizes, but as
a face from the digital era, Archer
has had no exposure to Apollo’s photosetting methods.