Hoefler Text
{{short description|Serif font by Jonathan Hoefler}}
{{Infobox font
| image = HoeflerText.png
| imagesize = 250px
| style = Serif
| classifications = Old-style
| releasedate = 1991
| creator = Jonathan Hoefler
| foundry = Hoefler & Co.
}}
Hoefler Text is an old-style serif font by Jonathan Hoefler released by Apple Computer Inc. (now Apple Inc.) in 1991 to showcase advanced type technologies.{{cite web|last1=Heller|first1=Steven|author-link1=Steven Heller (design writer)|title=Jonathan Hoefler on type design|url=http://www.hellerbooks.com/docs/interviews_dialogues.html|website=Design Dialogues|access-date=2 August 2016}} Intended as a versatile font that is suitable for body text, it takes cues from a range of classic fonts, such as designs by Miklós Kis and Jean Jannon.{{cite web|title=Hoefler Titling|url=http://www.typography.com/fonts/hoefler-titling/overview/|publisher=Hoefler & Frere-Jones|access-date=7 July 2015}}{{cite web|title=If the face fits|url=https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/if-the-face-fits|publisher=Eye Magazine|access-date=2022-10-28}}
A version of Hoefler Text has been included with every version of the classic Mac OS since System 7.5 and in every version of macOS. Hoefler's company, Hoefler&Co., have continued development of the typeface, developing for sale a range of additional variants.[http://typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100010 Hoefler Text | Hoefler & Frere-Jones]. {{Retrieved|access-date= November 18, 2009}}
Released free with every Mac during the growth of desktop publishing, at a time when producing printed documents was becoming dramatically easier, Hoefler Text raised awareness of type features previously the concern only of professional printers.{{cite web|last1=Berry|first1=John D.|title=A Rare Font Specimen|url=https://creativepro.com/dot-font-a-rare-font-specimen/|website=Creative Pro|date=7 July 2000 |access-date=1 April 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Shaw|first1=Paul|title=The Digital Past: When Typefaces Were Experimental|url=http://www.aiga.org/the-digital-past-when-typefaces-were-experimental|publisher=AIGA|access-date=1 April 2017}}{{cite book|author=Stephen Eskilson|title=Graphic Design: New History 2nd Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUEv45FsrmsC&pg=PA417|date=28 February 2012|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-17260-7|page=417}} New York magazine commented in 2014 that it "helped launch a thousand font obsessives."{{cite web|last1=Fagone|first1=Jason|title=A Type House Divided|date=2 June 2014 |url=http://nymag.com/news/features/jonathan-hoefler-tobias-frere-jones-2014-6/|publisher=New York magazine|access-date=1 December 2014}} Hoefler Text was used in the Wikipedia logo until the 2010 redesign, when it was replaced with Linux Libertine.{{srlink|Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos#The current logo|Wikipedia logos}}
Features
Hoefler Text incorporates then-advanced features which have since become standard practice for font designers, such as automatic ligature insertion, real small capitals, optional old style figures and optional insertion of characters such as true superscript and subscript characters, the historical round and long s, engraved capitals and swashes. Hoefler Text also has a matching ornament font containing arabesque motifs.{{cite web|last1=Hoefler|first1=Jonathan|title=Ornaments and Arabesques|url=https://www.typography.com/fonts/hoefler-text/features/hoefler-text-arabesques-patterns|website=Hoefler & Frere-Jones|access-date=1 April 2017}} It was, until OpenType made alternate characters more common, one of only a few system fonts that contained old style, or ranging, figures, which are designed to harmonize with body text.
Hoefler&Co. expanded Hoefler Text to include additional typographic features, and the current commercial release now includes three weights (an additional bold weight beside the regular and black included with Macs) and two sets of engraved capitals, as well as the more slender display variant Hoefler Titling.{{cite web |last1=Strizver |first1=Ilene |title=All About Titling Fonts |url=https://creativepro.com/all-about-titling-fonts/ |website=Creative Pro |date=21 June 2017 |access-date=4 September 2018}} These are released in the OpenType format, intended for cross-platform usage.
The design is based on the types Janson and Garamond No. 3 typefaces, both of whose historical names are misattributions; the designs were created by punchcutters Miklós Tótfalusi Kis and Jean Jannon respectively.
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Hoefler Text features.png|Hoefler Text features in the version bundled with Macs. The commercial release includes an additional bold weight (less bold than that shown) and a second, lighter design of engraved capitals.
Rare and ancient ligatures in XeTeX.svg|Contextual and selectable ligatures in Hoefler Text, highlighted in red.
See also
References
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External links
- {{Commonscat-inline|Hoefler}}
- [http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100010 Hoefler Text] in the Hoefler & Frere-Jones catalog
- [http://www.typography.com/fonts/hoefler-text/features/ Hoefler Text features] in the Hoefler & Frere-Jones catalog
- [http://www.typography.com/fonts/hoefler-titling/overview/ Hoefler Titling] in the Hoefler & Frere-Jones catalog
{{OS X typefaces}}
Category:Old style serif typefaces
Category:Typefaces with text figures
Category:Hoefler & Frere-Jones typefaces
Category:Typefaces designed by Jonathan Hoefler
Category:Typefaces with optical sizes