FB Alix was inspired by IBM’s Prestige, a ’50s stalwart, but features true cursive italics, not sloped variants. -- how would this work for formatting code; not on screen, but on paper?

By accident, this page seems to either contain or link to a lot of pages about best practices for web fonts--refer to this (if I ever find use for them)

Several examples of succesful combinations of different fonts. The french café chart, in particular, has a curious degree of authenticity to it.