Hightower Text

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Hightower Text
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Category Serif
Old-style
Designer(s) Tobias Frere-Jones
Foundry Font Bureau
Date released1994
Design based on Nicolas Jenson

Hightower Text is a serif typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones. It is loosely based on the printing of Nicolas Jenson in Venice in the 1470s, in what is now called the "old style" of serif fonts. [1]

In typography, a serif is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts. A typeface or "font family" making use of serifs is called a serif typeface, and a typeface that does not include them is a sans-serif one. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" or "Gothic", and serif typefaces as "roman".

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Tobias Frere-Jones American typographer

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Begun by Frere-Jones while he was a student, it was originally used in AIGA's magazine and released commercially by Font Bureau. [2] [3] It was named for the then-executive director of AIGA, Caroline Warner Hightower. [4] [5] It has been included with some Microsoft software such as versions of Microsoft Office. [6] Some releases have been called "High Tower Text".

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Caroline Warner Hightower

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The family includes an italic style; this is Frere-Jones' design, since this style only emerged after Jenson's death. A commercial release is sold by Font Bureau in the OpenType format, which includes small capitals, ligatures and both lining and text figures. [7] It does not include a bold style, which did not exist in Jenson's time.

Italic type Font style characterised by cursive typeface and slanted design

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OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior. OpenType is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Text figures

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References

  1. ↑ "High Tower Text". Microsoft . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Interview, Ellen Lupton with Tobias Frere-Jones". Ellen Lupton. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  3. ↑ Riechers, Angela. "3 Major Designers Confess Their Biggest Mess-ups and Do-overs—and What They Learned". Eye on Design. AIGA . Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Helfand, Jessica; Coltz, Jon. "Interview with Jessica Helfand". Daidala. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Shaw, Paul. "AIGA Timeline: A Window on American Graphic Design". Blue Pencil. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "High Tower Text - Version 1.00". Microsoft . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "Hightower". MyFonts . Font Bureau. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
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