How we land on the font
The method: take the actual headline and the actual venue hero, render it in a shortlist of readable, heritage-appropriate faces, and compare them on the real image. Click a card to see it on the hero above. Whatever you pick becomes the font. No more me guessing.
Killed: Bodoni Moda (the one you could not read). Thin didone hairlines vanish at display size on dark. Every candidate below is chosen for stroke weight and legibility first, character second.
Downtown Napa · Est. 1889
The corrected hero: the mansion at dusk (their real venue photo, upscaled to 2K). Click a font to try it here.
All readable at size, all fit a heritage Napa mansion, none are thin-hairline didones. Same headline, so you compare the type and nothing else.