Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Topaz

Part of the Shades collection of two-color fonts, Topaz is an inline face that’s both suave and resolute.

“Inlines” are black typefaces with white highlights, and “Outlines” are white typefaces with black borders. The typographic scholar R. S. Hutchings noted that “it is often difficult, if not actually impossible, to distinguish between them.” Topaz is our attempt to further blur the distinction: its sinuous curves and careful asymmetries, together with its off-center highlights, yield a typeface which is simultaneously an inline, and outline, and a dimensional letter.