Hoefler&Co.

What Is Hoefler&Co.?

Hoefler&Co. is a type foundry specializing in typography that produces premium typefaces for print, web, and mobile use. Founded in 1989 by Jonathan Hoefler, it offers a paid library of over 1,000 fonts engineered for cross-platform consistency and advanced typographic features. Hoefler&Co. fits into design workflows where precise, high-performance typefaces are needed for branding, editorial design, and institutional applications, now integrated into the Monotype library following its 2021 acquisition.

What Hoefler&Co. Does

• Provides a library exceeding 1,000 typefaces, including Gotham, Mercury, Sentinel, Chronicle, Decimal, and Archer.
• Designs fonts with deep character sets, small caps, swashes, and multiple figure sets for complex layouts.
• Engineers typefaces for consistent performance across desktop, web, and mobile environments.
• Creates screen-optimized fonts like Operator Mono for code readability and developer interfaces.
• Develops space-efficient variants such as Gotham Narrow for legibility at small sizes.
• Produces type families modeled on historical styles, such as Surveyor from nineteenth-century engraved maps.

How Hoefler&Co. Can Be Used

• In editorial design for newspapers and magazines, where fonts like Mercury and Retina handle dense text, tables, and multiple styles.
• For brand identity in political campaigns, as with Gotham for Obama-Biden materials and Decimal for the Biden White House.
• Across institutional projects, including signage for the Guggenheim Museum and type for Tiffany & Co.
• In publishing for outlets like The New York Times, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, supporting comprehensive font families.
• For digital products like mobile apps and web interfaces, ensuring cross-platform coherence in client work for HBO and Netflix.
• In map design with families like Inkwell for informal contexts or Surveyor for detailed, flowing lettering.

Who Is Hoefler&Co. For?

Hoefler&Co. serves professional designers, type specialists, and organizations requiring robust typography for high-stakes projects such as corporate branding, editorial publishing, and institutional communications. It targets teams at Fortune 500 companies, major publishers, and cultural institutions where typography forms core brand infrastructure, rather than general consumer or entry-level design needs. Visit Hoefler&Co.