"Weight Duplexing" — In our font families that include tabular figures, we use the same fixed width throughout the entire range of weights, so designers can use boldface to highlight a single line without disrupting the underlying grid.

Condensed Tabulars — Even a well-designed table can collapse under the burden of a nine-digit number. For tables that feature narrow columns, long numbers, or both, try our newly-expanded Gotham family, which includes tabular figures in four different widths.

Multiple Enclosures — Whitney’s indices come in both circles and squares, and in both positive and negative versions, allowing readers to distinguish different data lines — even when designers are limited to a single color.

Double-Digit Indices — Whitney Index includes double digits for when the CEO’s ten-point plan runs to eleven points (or 99, for that matter.) Also included is a full alphabet, because sometimes there’s no better way to symbolize "third quarter" than an iconic "Q3."

Indices as Reference Marks — Instead of running out of punctuation after the asterisk, dagger, and double-dagger, try using indices to indicate footnotes. They’re neater, more intuitive, and easier to use in combination with one another.

Reversing Out — Dropping type out of a solid color means reinforcing the type, but the jump from one weight of a type family to the next is often too noticeable. Choose a graded family, in which the crisper Grade 1 can be used for text, and the brawnier Grade 4 for knockouts.

Stock Changes — If you’re working with different papers in an annual report, choosing different grades of the same font can help keep the type’s color looking consistent, even if you’re using a high gloss sheet for the narrative section and an uncoated sheet for the financials.

Extended Monetary — For projects that extend beyond dollars, pounds, Euros and yen, look for a typeface that includes an extended set of currency symbols. These font families from H&FJ include more than three times the typical number of symbols, for currencies as common as the Rupee and as rare as the Sheqel.

Footnotes — Frequently unavoidable, and hard to fake; anything with the word "disclosure" will have footnotes. Make sure your font has them.

Pi — Both our Chronicle Text and Mercury Text families include a set of 74 dingbats, from trend arrows to ballot boxes to pointing fists.