Looking for a solid serif typeface

[eyeon]

Hi there.

My company is about to begin developing a full-color glossy print magazine, and as we gear up for that I am realizing that we need a good solid body text typeface to purchase and stick with for all things relative to our identity. I would a font family that is/includes:
solid
readable
Open Type
Old Style (with hanging number figures)
small caps
good kerning that I wouldn't ever have to manually adjust
and obviously the basic italic, bold, bold italic, etc...

The trouble is that there are about 17 million fonts out there and I don't even know where to begin. Can anyone point me in a direction? Anyone have any good type foundry recommendations? And specific typeface recommendations?

Also, I've found that some fonts that I have on my system include glyphs that can act as hanging old style numbers and such (a good example is Adobe Minion Pro) -- so how do I use those without having to manually insert all the standard numbers with an oldstyle glyph? Is there a way?

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

 

[Mac_Freak]

... so how do I use those without having to manually insert all the standard numbers with an oldstyle glyph? Is there a way?

If you are using Open Type (which you want to), in InDesign, under the flay out menu of the Character Palette, go to OpenType submenu and pick Proportional Oldstyle from the list. That should give you the look you are asking off.