Requiem (typeface)

Requiem
CategorySerif
ClassificationOld-style
Designer(s)Jonathan Hoefler
FoundryHoefler & Co.

Requiem is an old-style serif typeface designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1992 for Travel + Leisure magazine and sold by his company, Hoefler & Co.[1][2] The typeface takes inspiration from a set of inscriptional capitals found in Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi's 1523 writing manual, Il Modo de Temperare le Penne, and its italics are based on the chancery calligraphy, or cancelleresca corsiva of the period.[3]

Like many other typefaces designed by Hoefler & Co., the family is large, intended for professional use. It is designed with three separate optical sizes of font, intended for different sizes of text, as well as two different styles of capitals inside cartouches intended for title pages and frontispieces.[4][5] It also contains fleurons and italic ligatures inspired by calligraphy, as well as stylistic alternates such as an alternative 'Y' character.[6][7] Like typefaces of the period in which Arrighi worked, it does not contain a bold style, as these were only invented in the nineteenth century.[8]

  1. ^ "Requiem Overview". Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ^ Coltz, Jon. "Questions about Requiem for Jonathan Hoefler". daidala (archived). Archived from the original on 16 March 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  3. ^ Paul Shaw (2017). Revival Type: Digital Typefaces Inspired by the Past. Yale University Press. pp. 26–7. ISBN 978-0-300-21929-6.
  4. ^ "Requiem optical sizes". Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Requiem ornaments & cartouches". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Italic ligatures".
  7. ^ "Special characters". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Requiem styles". Retrieved 16 August 2015.