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Giant®

by Hoefler & Co.
Licenses from $50.00 USD
Complete family of 3 fonts: $50.00 USD
Giant Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Giant contains 3 styles and family package options.

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    Giant Complete Family Pack

    3 fonts

    Best Value!

    • Giant Regular Giant Regular

    • Giant Layers Highlight Giant Layers Highlight

    • Giant Layers Background Giant Layers Background

    Per Style:

    $16.66 USD

    Pack of 3 styles:

    $50.00 USD

    About Giant Font Family


    Part of the Shades collection of two-color fonts, Giant is an unexpected brew of different idioms from the world of commercial lettering.

    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.

    From the desk of the designer:

    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.

    Designers: Jonathan Hoefler

    Publisher: Hoefler & Co.

    Foundry: Hoefler & Co.

    Design Owner: Hoefler & Co.

    MyFonts debut: null

    Giant® is a registered trademark of The Hoefler Type Foundry, Inc.

    About Hoefler & Co.

    Famous for designing long-lived typefaces marked by high performance and high style, Hoefler&Co creates the fonts that give voice to the world’s foremost institutions, publications, causes, and brands. With a library of 1,500 fonts designed for print, web, office, and mobile fonts, Hoefler&Co is everywhere. Their typefaces shaped the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Joe Biden; they’re on the cornerstone of One World Trade Center and on every iPhone ever made. They serve brands from Del...

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