Hoefler Titling
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How to use
Hoefler Titling
Revisiting the classical roots of Hoefler Text, Hoefler Titling is a companion family of typefaces designed for headline sizes.
The Hoefler Titling family contains three weights, each in roman, italic, roman small caps, and italic swashes.
Use Hoefler Titling’s italics to distinguish text without changing its weight:
For more contrast, use the small caps:
Hoefler Titling’s italics include swash capitals, for decorating text:
Hoefler Titling is designed for headline sizes. The following table offers some conservative guidelines for the smallest sizes at which the fonts can comfortably be reproduced and read, assuming typical reading conditions, and conventional contrast between type and background colors. The recommendations for sizes on screen are based on the coarser resolutions of older, entry-level monitors: at the higher resolutions available on modern phones, tablets, and laptops, type is viable at even smaller sizes.
Headlines
2.2Using Optical Sizes
The fine details, small lowercase, and tight fit of Hoefler Titling recommend it for headline typography. For setting text, use the Hoefler Text family (available separately), whose sturdier construction is designed to withstand reproduction at the very smallest sizes.
Hoefler Titling features both old-style and lining figures.
Hoefler Titling uses Stylistic Sets, an OpenType feature available in many applications that makes it easier to apply related substitutions together.
4.1Stylistic Sets
Hoefler Titling automatically adjusts spacing and character choices to improve typography.
5.1Ligatures
Collisions with the lowercase f are resolved by ligatures that are automatically substituted for the combinations fb, ff, fh, fi, fj, fk, fl, ffb, ffh, ffi, ffj, ffk, and ffl.
When letterspacing the lowercase, ligatures should be disabled.
5.2Kerning
Hoefler Titling is spaced and kerned to perform in most circumstances without the need for manual intervention. In applications that offer multiple options for kerning type, always use the default kerning that’s native to the typefaces (labeled auto in Illustrator, and metrics in InDesign) — never use the setting for optical kerning.
So-called ‘optical kerning’ was originally developed as an automated assist for fonts that lack kerning. But applied to a professional typeface, it overrides the visual decisions made by the font’s designers, and instead spaces characters using a mathematical model. It routinely misjudges common pairs and ignores important context, creating erratic and disruptive rhythms. Because its algorithms are subject to change with each software update, ‘optical kerning’ can cause text to be reflowed without notice.
Hoefler Titling features H&Co’s Expanded Latin character set.
Hoefler Titling supports 503 languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgeois, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Welsh, and Zulu.
