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Knox

Knox®

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

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Knox Complete Family Pack

3 fonts

Best Value!

  • Knox Regular Knox Regular

  • Knox Layers Highlight Knox Layers Highlight

  • Knox Layers Background Knox Layers Background

Per Style:

$16.66 USD

Pack of 3 styles:

$50.00 USD

About Knox Font Family


Part of the Shades collection of two-color fonts, Knox is a hearty dimensional letter in the “Grecian” style.

The Knox typeface was designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1993. A decorative adaptation of Hoefler’s Acropolis typeface (1992), Knox is a dimensional letter of a style that first appeared in the early nineteenth century. Its pattern of facets and shadings was inspired by the ‘16-Line Pica Octagon’ wood type appearing in George Nesbitt’s type specimen of 1838. A ‘chromatic’ typeface, Knox includes the two styles Background and Highlight, designed to be set in different colors and superimposed in register.

From the desk of the designer:

When typography turned burlesque in the beginning of the nineteenth century, one of the first stylistic idioms typefounders explored was the dimensional letter. Metal and wood types of the period are rife with bevelled, faceted, and shadowed letters; for Knox, we applied the faceting of Alexander Nesbitt’s 16 Line Pica Octagon wood type (1838) to our own Acropolis typeface.

Designers: Jonathan Hoefler

Publisher: Hoefler & Co.

Foundry: Hoefler & Co.

Design Owner: Hoefler & Co.

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Knox® 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 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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