Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Knox

Part of the Shades collection of two-color fonts, Knox is a hearty dimensional letter in the “Grecian” style.

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.