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Surveyor (typeface)

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We had the twin goals of making a typeface that felt very handmade, to evoke the craft philosophy of the magazine, and that could handle all of the charts, tables, recipes, graphs, almanacs and step-by-step instructions that they run in the magazine. We had been waiting to do a typeface based on the
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Surveyor's most notable feature is its extremely wide range of weights and styles, designed to provide many options for complex publications such as magazines. The typeface is created in weights from light to black, with italic styles offering designs with or without swashes. Swashes themselves are
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controlled programmatically so that they only appear where there is space for them, so words that are fully capitalised only have swashes at the start. It is also sold in three different optical sizes, for text printed in different sizes from small to large.
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magazine and released publicly in March 2013, in a wider range of styles, by the type foundry
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Hoefler&Co. website describing Surveyor's feature list, showing sample settings of text.
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serif typeface that recalls type found on engraved maps and charts. It was designed by
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distinct style of lettering you find on engraved maps
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Surveyor has a vertical axis and a high contrast of
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Didone
Tobias Frere-Jones
Martha Stewart Living
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Jonathan Hoefler
stroke weight
Bodoni
Didot
Bell
"Forensic Types"
"A Type House Divided"
New York
"Martha Stewart's Graphic Design for Living"
Hoefler&Co. website describing Surveyor's feature list, showing sample settings of text.
Article in eye magazine mentioning the Surveyor typeface
Categories
Hoefler & Frere-Jones typefaces
Typefaces designed by Tobias Frere-Jones
Didone serif typefaces
Digital typefaces
Typefaces with optical sizes
Typefaces with text figures

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