In reply to Electra vs. Parkinson Electra?:
Cool. I can just see it now: "you have Gill Sans crossing Bembo, with Bodoni in the past & Archer in the future..."
But what does it mean?!!
Oh, the mysteries!
Anyway: the sample paragraphs on fonts.com are very instructive. I can see how the Parkinson addresses problems that folks have pointed out about the earlier digital Electra (I believe "anemic" has been a popular description) & if I were setting a book I might prefer it. For my purposes the spaciousness & lightness of Electra seem more appropriate.
In print, anyway. I'm not crazy about either one as a web font.