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Hoefler & Frere-Jones
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Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ) designs and markets original fonts. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.
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In Today’s Mail

29 aug 11

Hoefler & Frere-Jones on PBS

Off Book is a series from PBS Arts dedicated to documenting the creative process, and expanding the definition of art. Produced by New York filmmakers Kornhaber Brown, the series premiered with an ex...

17 aug 11

Typefacial Recognition at H&FJ Labs

Were generally content to control font outlines by pushing points around on a screen, but an intuitive interface for managing the entire gestalt of a type family remains elusive. H&FJs Andy Clymer te...

08 jul 11

H&FJ Honored by the 2011 National Design Awards

Hoefler & Frere-Jones is very proud to be among the honorees of the 2011 National Design Awards, announced this morning by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. An official White Ho...

26 may 11

IDEAL SANS: A New Font Family from H&FJ

Typeface: Ideal Sans Typefaces are born from the struggle between rules and results. Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must...

04 may 11

Can We Add Serifs to Gotham?

For the President of The United States? Yes We Can. —JH

04 apr 11

Things We Love

Typefaces: Tungsten and Gotham In a manner more typical of the corporate than the corporeal, designer Nicholas Felton marks the passage of each year with an annual report. Past editions of the Feltro...

07 feb 11

H&FJ Typefaces Join the MoMA Permanent Collection

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has announced the acquisition of four H&FJ type families — HTF Didot, Gotham, Mercury and Retina — for the MoMA permanent collection. In designing new typefaces, ...

24 jan 11

Legacy of Letters: An Italian Tour

So enormous are the contributions of the Italian people to typography that they often pass unnoticed. The words you are reading may be written in the English language, but they are rendered in the La...

22 jan 11

For Immediate Release

October 25 has been designated World Pasta Day, and as part of typography’s contribution to this important initiative, H&FJ is pleased to offer the following: an excerpt from the typeface “Nr. 941. D...

25 oct 10

The Finishing Touches

In the middle of Gotham, our family of 66 sans serifs, there is a hushed but surprising moment: a fraction whose numerator has a serif. So important was this detail that we decided to offer it as an ...

13 oct 10

FORZA: A New Font Family from H&FJ

Typeface: Forza There are stylized typefaces that speak in a singular, powerful voice, and there are versatile ones capable of expressing many different moods. We feel the pull of both extremes, and ...

04 aug 10

Lettering of the WPA

Our designer Brian Hennings stumbled across a great resource this morning: on the website of the Library of Congress, a collection of 926 posters from the Works Progress Administration. The LOC has d...

23 jun 10

Learning Typeface Design

Learning to draw letters is hard enough, but learning to create typefaces is something else entirely. For those with an interest in both, H&FJ’s Sara Soskolne will be teaching “Turning Letters into T...

16 jun 10

The Murderer Wore Serifs

Typeface designers live with the permanent possibility of encountering their work at unexpected moments. Your old college now uses a font that you designed; in a movie, whose story takes place before...

15 jun 10

New from H&FJ: Whitney Greek & Cyrillic

Typeface: Whitney Multiscript H&FJ is pleased to introduce Whitney® Greek, Cyrillic, and Multiscript, a new internationalization of our Whitney family for our friends in Ελλάδα, Содружество Независим...

10 jun 10

An Enchanted Alphabet

I have a special affection for decorated letters, especially the ornamented designs of the nineteenth century. You know the kind: theyre chubby Regency typefaces, slab serifs or high-contrast ‘Fat Fa...

11 may 10

Typography Shared

Typefaces: Ziggurat, Archer, Gotham Designers who use our fonts have been sharing their work on our Facebook page, much to the delight of both H&FJ’s designers and our followers online. Some recent l...

05 may 10

Things We Love

Typeface: Knockout When we designed the Knockout type family, which celebrates the exuberance of nineteenth century wood type, we wondered: what designer would knowingly use the fonts to recall a wor...

23 apr 10

Ask H&FJ: Mixing Fonts

Every font shown on this site is accompanied by a set of suggested pairings. These are all personal selections (would that they could be automated!) and we're often asked about our methodology for de...

29 mar 10

Typography Delivered Fresh

A friend who teaches typography on the undergraduate level recently asked an unexpected favor: “can my students browse the e-mails H&FJ sends out?” Apparently he’s in the habit of circulating printou...

17 feb 10

The Tablet Magazine

Typefaces: Vitesse, Tungsten, and Gotham Rounded Wired gets it. Today they’re going public with the prototype they shared with us a few weeks ago, and if you’re like me, your reaction will be an inst...

16 feb 10

The 21st Century Object Poster

In 1906, the Priester Match Company held an open contest for the design of a poster. Art Nouveau was in full flower, so surely the judges expected to receive decadent renderings of languid smokers, t...

05 feb 10

VITESSE: A New Font Family from H&FJ

Typeface: Vitesse H&FJ is delighted to introduce Vitesse®, a new slab serif in twelve styles. Slab serifs are one of typography’s most vibrant categories, yet they remain dominated by two ancient for...

12 jan 10

Because We’re, You Know, Cyborgs

Odd choice of fonts. Only one way to improve on it. —JH

07 jan 10

Uptown App, for iPhones

Typefaces: Gotham, Mercury Text, Giant Manhattan’s urban grid is a vaunted model of simplicity, a rectilinear plan of numbered streets intersecting numbered avenues. Never mind that West 4th Street c...

21 dec 09

Typographic Gifts for Designers, Part 17

I wonder what sort of psychological profile one could draw from my favorite childhood possessions. I neither played nor followed football, but clung to my NFL lunchbox that showed all the team helmet...

17 dec 09

Typographic Gifts for Designers, Part 16

"Modern Gaspipe" is the charming taxonomic name for this kind of letterform. We’ve explored the style in our Tungsten type family — itself a fine holiday gift at $99, ahem. But for those with a hanke...

16 dec 09

G Thing

Typeface: Acropolis An Acropolis Italic sighting is a rare event, so even at 48 pixels I couldn’t help but notice that George Garrastegui used the font’s letter G in his Twitter icon. George was kind...

10 dec 09

Typography Without Ink

This weekend, I replaced a DVD player that finally conked out after eleven years. Whatever delight I once took in acquiring a new piece of electronics has long been eclipsed by the responsibilities o...

07 dec 09

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