Hoefler Text
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| Category | Serif |
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| Classification | Old-style |
| Designer(s) | Jonathan Hoefler |
| Foundry | Hoefler & Frere-Jones |
Hoefler Text is a contemporary serif Antiqua font that was designed for Apple Computer to demonstrate advanced type technologies. Hoefler Text was created to allow the composition of complex typography; as such it takes cues from a range of classic fonts, such as Garamond and Janson.
Designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1991,[1] a version of Hoefler Text has been included with every version of Mac OS since System 7.5.
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[edit] Features
Hoefler Text incorporates automatic ligatures, the round and long s, real small capitals, old style figures and swashes. Hoefler Text also has a matching ornament font. It was, until OpenType made advanced typographic features more common, one of only a few fonts in common usage that contained old style, or ranging figures, which are designed to harmonize with standard upper- and lowercase text.
[edit] History
Since the introduction of the font, Hoefler Text has been expanded to include additional typographic features, and versions of the font published by Hoefler & Frere-Jones now include three weights, swash caps, italic small capitals, and two sets of engraved capitals.
[edit] Uses
Hoefler Text was used in the Wikipedia logo until the 2010 redesign, when it was replaced with Linux Libertine.[2] It was announced in 2011 that Hoefler Text would be used as part of the new visual identity of Dickinson College.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Hoefler Text | Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Retrieved November 18, 2009.
- ^ Wikipedia logos
- ^ New Visual Identity Unveiled | Dickinson College. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Hoefler Text in the Hoefler & Frere-Jones catalog
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