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Ziggurat

Ziggurat®

by Hoefler & Co.
Licenses from $104.00 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $104.00 USD
Ziggurat Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Ziggurat contains 2 styles and family package options.

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  • Ziggurat Black Ziggurat Black

  • Ziggurat Black Italic Ziggurat Black Italic

Per Style:

$52.00 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$104.00 USD

About Ziggurat Font Family


Ziggurat is the cornerstone of The Proteus Project, a collection of four interchangeable type families designed in different nineteenth century styles.

The Ziggurat typeface was designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1991. Ziggurat is inspired by the dark slab serif poster types of the English Regency (1811–1820), when typography’s focus first shifted from conservative book faces to the novel styles that would serve advertising. Because the first slab serifs were coeval with a fad for antiquity, they came to be known as ‘egyptians,’ one of many arbitrary period names that has survived into modern typography, such as ‘latin’ and ‘gothic.’ Ziggurat is the cornerstone of The Proteus Project, a typographic theme-and-variations created for Rolling Stone, in whose pages the typeface first appeared in 1991.

From the desk of the designer:

Not explicitly a revival of any one typeface, Ziggurat takes its cues from the entire aesthetic of early slab serif (or “Egyptian”) metal types, primarily those produced in Great Britain between 1815 and 1840

Designers: Jonathan Hoefler

Publisher: Hoefler & Co.

Foundry: Hoefler & Co.

Design Owner: Hoefler & Co.

MyFonts debut: null

Ziggurat® 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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