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Surveyor

Surveyor®

by Hoefler & Co.
Licenses from $314.00 USD
Complete family of 30 fonts: $522.00 USD
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Surveyor Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones and published by Hoefler & Co.. Surveyor contains 60 styles and family package options.

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Surveyor Complete Family Pack

 30 fonts

Best Value!

  • Surveyor Text Light Surveyor Text Light

  • Surveyor Text Light Italic Surveyor Text Light Italic

  • Surveyor Text Book Surveyor Text Book

  • Surveyor Text Book Italic Surveyor Text Book Italic

  • Surveyor Text Medium Surveyor Text Medium

  • Surveyor Text Medium Italic Surveyor Text Medium Italic

  • Surveyor Text Bold Surveyor Text Bold

  • Surveyor Text Bold Italic Surveyor Text Bold Italic

  • Surveyor Text Black Surveyor Text Black

  • Surveyor Text Black Italic Surveyor Text Black Italic

  • Surveyor Display Light Surveyor Display Light

  • Surveyor Display Light Italic Surveyor Display Light Italic

  • Surveyor Display Book Surveyor Display Book

  • Surveyor Display Book Italic Surveyor Display Book Italic

  • Surveyor Display Medium Surveyor Display Medium

  • Surveyor Display Medium Italic Surveyor Display Medium Italic

  • Surveyor Display Bold Surveyor Display Bold

  • Surveyor Display Bold Italic Surveyor Display Bold Italic

  • Surveyor Display Black Surveyor Display Black

  • Surveyor Display Black Italic Surveyor Display Black Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Light Surveyor Fine Light

  • Surveyor Fine Light Italic Surveyor Fine Light Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Book Surveyor Fine Book

  • Surveyor Fine Book Italic Surveyor Fine Book Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Medium Surveyor Fine Medium

  • Surveyor Fine Medium Italic Surveyor Fine Medium Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Bold Surveyor Fine Bold

  • Surveyor Fine Bold Italic Surveyor Fine Bold Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Black Surveyor Fine Black

  • Surveyor Fine Black Italic Surveyor Fine Black Italic

Per Style:

$17.40 USD

Pack of 30 styles:

$522.00 USD

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Surveyor Text Pro Pack

 10 fonts

  • Surveyor Text Light Surveyor Text Light

  • Surveyor Text Light Italic Surveyor Text Light Italic

  • Surveyor Text Book Surveyor Text Book

  • Surveyor Text Book Italic Surveyor Text Book Italic

  • Surveyor Text Medium Surveyor Text Medium

  • Surveyor Text Medium Italic Surveyor Text Medium Italic

  • Surveyor Text Bold Surveyor Text Bold

  • Surveyor Text Bold Italic Surveyor Text Bold Italic

  • Surveyor Text Black Surveyor Text Black

  • Surveyor Text Black Italic Surveyor Text Black Italic

Per Style:

$31.40 USD

Pack of 10 styles:

$314.00 USD

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Surveyor Fine Pro Pack

 10 fonts

  • Surveyor Fine Light Surveyor Fine Light

  • Surveyor Fine Light Italic Surveyor Fine Light Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Book Surveyor Fine Book

  • Surveyor Fine Book Italic Surveyor Fine Book Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Medium Surveyor Fine Medium

  • Surveyor Fine Medium Italic Surveyor Fine Medium Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Bold Surveyor Fine Bold

  • Surveyor Fine Bold Italic Surveyor Fine Bold Italic

  • Surveyor Fine Black Surveyor Fine Black

  • Surveyor Fine Black Italic Surveyor Fine Black Italic

Per Style:

$31.40 USD

Pack of 10 styles:

$314.00 USD

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Surveyor Display Pro Pack

 10 fonts

  • Surveyor Display Light Surveyor Display Light

  • Surveyor Display Light Italic Surveyor Display Light Italic

  • Surveyor Display Book Surveyor Display Book

  • Surveyor Display Book Italic Surveyor Display Book Italic

  • Surveyor Display Medium Surveyor Display Medium

  • Surveyor Display Medium Italic Surveyor Display Medium Italic

  • Surveyor Display Bold Surveyor Display Bold

  • Surveyor Display Bold Italic Surveyor Display Bold Italic

  • Surveyor Display Black Surveyor Display Black

  • Surveyor Display Black Italic Surveyor Display Black Italic

Per Style:

$31.40 USD

Pack of 10 styles:

$314.00 USD

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About Surveyor Font Family

Engraved maps use a characteristic form of lettering that’s unmistakable as anything else. We celebrate this style with Surveyor, a monumental family of typefaces designed for print and screen, and for sizes large and small.

The Surveyor typeface was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones in 2001. It is modeled on a style of engraved lettering first used by British mapmakers in the early nineteenth century, notable for its intensely sloped and flowing italic. Known to signpainters as the ‘stump style,’ these letterforms are representative of a movement in lettering known as the English Vernacular, which before Surveyor went unrepresented in typography. Surveyor was created for Martha Stewart Living, in whose pages the typeface first appeared in 2002.

From the desk of the designer:

The style of lettering that inspired Surveyor is an invention of the early nineteenth century, born of the material properties of copperplate engraving and the informational needs of cartography. A letter with compact proportions, delicate serifs, and a sinewy italic designed to follow rivers and coastlines, map lettering invited endless variation to help distinguish different kinds of data. A map that used italics for rivers and canals might use its roman for churches and villages, small capitals for bays and harbors, and a grand, sweeping arc of italic swash capitals for the names of the oceans. Inch for inch, few things have ever matched engraved maps for the density of their information, the range of their typographic vocabulary, or their pure visual delight.

We’ve always loved maps for their functional and aesthetic properties, and have long wanted to explore their lettering as a family of typefaces. The opportunity arose in 2000, when we were asked by Martha Stewart Living to design for the magazine a custom typeface, as a roman and italic in a single weight. Their brief resonated with what we saw in maps: text with a warm and inviting voice, with the charm of the handmade but the credibility of a textbook, and the functional ability to master many kinds of demanding content at small sizes — including the magazine’s recipes, calendars, step-by-step instructions, and all manner of diagrams. For Living, we created Surveyor in three sizes: Text for body copy, Display for headlines, and Fine for use on the cover. In the ensuing thirteen years, we’ve continued to push the design into new territories, expanding its original weight into a set of five, from a dulcet Light to a roaring Black. Each style now features both roman and italic small caps, and in the text range, a set of tabular figures, extended symbols, and fractions. Swash caps and small caps are managed by an OpenType feature, which we’ve designed to automatically insert or remove swashes based on their context, helping avoid awkward collisions and improve the rhythm of text.

Designers: Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones

Publisher: Hoefler & Co.

Foundry: Hoefler & Co.

Design Owner: Hoefler & Co.

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Surveyor® 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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