Jonathan Hoefler

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Hoefler Text an old style serif typeface designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1991.
Hoefler Text an old style serif typeface designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1991.

Jonathan Hoefler (born August 22, 1970[1]) is an American typeface designer. Hoefler (pronounced “Heffler”) founded Hoefler & Frere-Jones (originally The Hoefler Type Foundry, established 1989), a type foundry in New York that Hoefler shares with fellow type designer Tobias Frere-Jones.

Hoefler has designed original typefaces for Rolling Stone Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Esquire and several institutional clients, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and alternative band They Might Be Giants. Perhaps his best-known work is the Hoefler Text family of typefaces, designed for Apple Computer and now appearing as part of the Macintosh operating system.

In 1995, Hoefler was named one of the forty most influential designers in America by I.D. magazine,[2], and in 2002, the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) presented him with its most prestigious award, the Prix Charles Peignot for outstanding contributions to type design. Hoefler and Frere-Jones have been profiled in The New York Times,[1] Time Magazine,[3] and Esquire Magazine,[4] and appearances on National Public Radio and CBS Sunday Morning.

Hoefler's work is part of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's permanent collection.[5]

[edit] Typefaces

Jonathan Hoefler's types include:

  • Gestalt, 1990
  • Champion Gothic, 1990
  • Hoefler Text, 1991
  • Ideal Sans, 1991
  • Ziggurat, 1991
  • Leviathan, 1991
  • Mazarin, 1991
  • HTF Didot, 1992
  • Requiem Text, 1992
  • Saracen, 1992
  • Acropolis, 1993
  • NYT Cheltenham, 1993
  • Knox, 1993
  • Historical Allsorts, 1994
  • Knockout, 1994
  • Fetish, 1994
  • Neutrino, 1994
  • Quantico, 1994
  • Oratorio, 1994
  • Troubadour, 1994
  • William Maxwell, 1994
  • Deseret, 1995
  • Jupiter, 1995
  • Pavisse, 1995
  • Verlag (formerly Guggenheim), 1996
  • Giant (formerly They Might Be Gothic), 1996
  • New Amsterdam, 1996
  • Hoefler Titling, 1996
  • Plainsong, 1996
  • Kapellmeister, 1997
  • Numbers (with Tobias Frere-Jones), 1997-2006
  • Mercury, 1997
  • Radio City, 1998
  • Vitesse (with Tobias Frere-Jones), 2000
  • Deluxe, 2000
  • Cyclone, 2000
  • Topaz, 2000
  • Lever Sans (with Tobias Frere-Jones), 2000
  • Archer (with Tobias Frere-Jones and Jesse Ragan), 2001
  • Chronicle, 2002
  • Sentinel, 2002

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Dunlap, David W. "2 Type Designers, Joining Forces and Faces", The New York Times, October 19, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-10-17. 
  2. ^ “The I.D. Forty,” I.D. magazine, Jan/Feb 1995.
  3. ^ Casey, Susan. Way Beyond the Basic ABCs. Time. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
  4. ^ “Letters from the Street: Agents of Influence,” Esquire magazine, The Genius Issue, December 2005. Text online
  5. ^ Biographies. Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.

[edit] References

  • Hoefler & Frere-Jones
  • Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
  • Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
  • “The I.D. Forty,” I.D. magazine, Jan/Feb 1995.