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Historical Allsorts

Historical Allsorts™

by Hoefler & Co.
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Complete family of 4 fonts: $209.00 USD
Historical Allsorts Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Historical Allsorts contains 4 styles and family package options.

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The Historical Allsorts Pack

4 fonts

Best Value!

  • Historical Fell Type Roman Historical Fell Type Roman

  • Historical St Augustin Historical St Augustin

  • Historical Fell Type Italic Historical Fell Type Italic

  • Historical English Textura Historical English Textura

Per Style:

$52.25 USD

Pack of 4 styles:

$209.00 USD

About Historical Allsorts Font Family


The Historical Allsorts were designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1992. An experiment to digitally record the shapes of typographic artifacts, rather than interpret them through new drawings, the collection salutes three milestones in early typography: a textura, a civilité, and a set of ‘old style’ book faces from collection known as The Fell Types. The Historical Allsorts first appeared in the pages of Rolling Stone in 1994.

English Textura. The English Textura records the blackletter and uncial capitals cut by Henric Pieterszoon Lettersnijder some time before 1492. The original textura was made in the ‘English’ size, roughly equivalent to a modern 14 point; the uncials were created in the ‘great primer’ size, akin to 18 point.

Civilité. The Civilité is the St. Augustin Lettre Francoise of around 1562, a splendid interpretation of a French secretary hand cut in type by Robert Granjon, the greatest virtuoso of typography’s golden age. The original type was made in the ‘St. Augustin’ size, about 14 point.

The Fell Types. ‘The Fell Types’ are a collection of typographic materials assembled for the Oxford University Press in the late seventeenth century by Dr. John Fell. These typefaces record the ‘Great Primer’ book faces (roughly 14 point) in roman and italic, cut by Peter de Walpergen before 1693. The Fell Types connect the seventeenth century ‘old style’ types created on the European continent, and English old styles of the Enlightenment.

Designers: Jonathan Hoefler

Publisher: Hoefler & Co.

Foundry: Hoefler & Co.

Design Owner: Hoefler & Co.

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Historical Allsorts™ is a 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 Delta Air Lines to Tiffany & Co., publications from Harper’s Bazaar to The New York Times, institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, The Public Theater, and New York University, and non-profit organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and The Peconic Land Trust. The Premium foundry page can be viewed Here.

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