In a recent blog post, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones revealed, “Designers at H&FJ can’t resist outfitting our fonts with those little extras. Whether it’s a set of symbols that makes a font more useful, or a handful of ornaments that makes it more delicious, even H&FJ’s most sober typefaces have moments of sheer exuberance. Below, some hidden treasures that rarely come to light: see these, and thousands of others, exclusively at H&FJ.”
Note that fonts from other foundries may also have ornaments that can act as mini illustrations. To see all the glyphs in a typeface, select a face in a software program and then open that program’s glyph palette.
This article was last modified on July 11, 2023
This article was first published on December 17, 2009
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