$129.00

The Shades package includes three more fonts for just $129.00!

Designer Barbara Glauber wanted to “crash different vernaculars” when she designed They Might Be Giants’ Factory Showroom album. The typeface she commissioned us to design (formerly known as They Might Be Gothic) pits industrial letterforms against commercial ones in a stylistic deathmatch: we applied the faceting of surface-gilt window letters to the typography of the feltboard office directory, with an added dose of industrial stencilling that periodically ignores the dictates of logic.

Colophon

The Giant typeface was designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1996. A sly mashup of different industrial idioms, including spray-painted stencils, feltboard office directories, and surface-gilt window letters, Giant was commissioned by Barbara Glauber on behalf of the iconic rock duo They Might Be Giants. A ‘chromatic’ typeface, Giant includes the two styles Background and Highlight, designed to be set in different colors and superimposed in register. Originally known as They Might Be Gothic, the Giant typeface first appeared on the band’s 1996 album Factory Showroom.

Designed by

Jonathan Hoefler

 

Special thanks to Barbara Glauber

Advance copies of Giant were circulated under the working title They Might Be Gothic. These fonts have been replaced by the Giant package. Giant® is a registered trademark of Hoefler&Co.

Giant with Knox

Giant with Knox

Giant with Gotham

Giant with Gotham

Giant with Prospekt

Giant with Prospekt