Knox

Knox Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Knox contains 3 styles and family package options. Part of the Shades collection of two-color fonts, Knox is a hearty dimensional letter in the “Grecian” style. The Knox typeface was designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1993. A decorative adaptation of Hoefler’s Acropolis typeface (1992), Knox is a dimensional letter of a style that first appeared in the early nineteenth century. Its pattern of facets and shadings was inspired by the ‘16-Line Pica Octagon’ wood type appearing in George Nesbitt’s type specimen of 1838. A ‘chromatic’ typeface, Knox includes the two styles Background and Highlight, designed to be set in different colors and superimposed in register. From the desk of the designer: When typography turned burlesque in the beginning of the nineteenth century, one of the first stylistic idioms typefounders explored was the dimensional letter. Metal and wood types of the period are rife with bevelled, faceted, and shadowed letters; for Knox, we applied the faceting of Alexander Nesbitt’s 16 Line Pica Octagon wood type (1838) to our own Acropolis typeface.