Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones

  1. Gotham Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    "Every designer has admired the no-nonsense lettering of the American vernacular, those letters of paint, plaster, neon, glass and steel…
  2. Whitney Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    "Whitney: clear for signage, compact for print. A type family originally developed for New York’s Whitney Museum, Whitney contends with…
  3. Sentinel Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    "For everyone who’s ever wished Clarendons had italics, everyone whose favorite slab serif is shy a few weights, and everyone…
  4. Interstate Typeface
    Interstate is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993-99, and licensed by Font Bureau. The…
  5. Verlag Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    "Originally envisioned as a riff on the Guggenheim’s iconic Art Deco lettering, Verlag developed into its own family of versatile…
  6. Mercury Display Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    "A succinct family of display faces, Mercury answers the call for a contemporary serif that’s smart, quick, and articulate. The…
  7. Knockout Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    "A sweeping collection of 32 sans serifs, Knockout restores some much-needed vitality to an overlooked corner of the typographic spectrum.…
  8. Poynter Gothic Text Typeface
    Foundry: Font Bureau
    Morris Fuller Benton’s drawings at the Smithsonian show a creative concern for effects of scale on typeface design. Tobias Frere-Jones…
  9. Poynter Old Style Display Typeface
    Foundry: Font Bureau
    In the sixteen-seventies, Christopher Plantin was the largest publisher of his day. Hendrik van den Keere cut for him an…
  10. Garage Gothic Typeface
    Foundry: Font Bureau
  11. Niagara Typeface
    Foundry: Font Bureau
    While not a revival in the strictest sense of the word, Niagara recalls the crisp, elegant geometry found in some…
  12. Chronicle Text Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    A scotch face designed for the New Times newspaper chain. Chronicle Text had to be sturdy enough to cope with…
  13. Armada Typeface
    Foundry: Font Bureau
    Tobias Frere-Jones began Armada in 1987. An experiment in algorithmic design, Armada follows the verticals and flat arches so often…
  14. Vitesse Typeface
    Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    "Engineered for responsive handling and a sporty ride, Vitesse is a twenty-first century slab serif that’s agile, steady, confident and…
  15. Nobel Typeface
    Foundry: Dutch Type Library, Font Bureau
    Conceived around the same time as Futura, Nobel lacks its strict adherence to geometric forms (perhaps a consequence of de…
  16. Griffith Gothic Typeface
    Foundry: The Font Bureau, Mergenthaler
    Of all his work, Chauncey Griffith claimed one type, Bell Gothic, as his own design. Griffith Gothic is a revival…