Hoefler Text

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Hoefler Text

Category	Serif
Date created	1991
Designer(s)	Jonathan Hoefler
Foundry	Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Hoefler Text is a contemporary serif Antiqua font that was designed for Apple Computer in order 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, a version of Hoefler Text has been included with every version of Mac OS since System 7.5.

Hoefler Text uses Apple Advanced Typography to allow the use of automatic ligatures, the round and long s, real small capitals, old style figures and swashes. Hoefler Text also has a matching ornament font. It is one of only a few fonts in common usage that contain old style, or ranging figures, which are designed to harmonize with standard upper- and lowercase text.

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.

Hoefler Text is the typeface used in the Wikipedia logo.