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Whitney (typeface)

Sans-serif typeface

Field	Value
name	Whitney
image	Whitney specimen.svg
creator	Tobias Frere-Jones
foundry	Hoefler & Co.
creationdate	2004
website	https://www.typography.com/fonts/whitney/overview
style	Sans-serif
classifications	Neo-grotesque/Humanist sans-serif
commissioned_by	Whitney Museum

Whitney is a family of humanist sans-serif digital typefaces, designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones. It was originally created for New York's Whitney Museum as its institutional typeface. Two key requirements were flexibility for editorial requirements and a design consistency with the Whitney Museum's existing public signage.

Typographical context

Whitney was created in 2004 by the foundry of Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Whitney bridges the divide between editorial mainstays such as News Gothic (1908), which is an American gothic typeface, and signage application standards such as Frutiger (1975), which is a European humanist typeface. Moreover, "its compact forms and broad x-height use space efficiently, and its ample counters and open shapes make it clear under any circumstances."

Variants

Whitney Light
Whitney Light Italic
Whitney Book
Whitney Book Italic
Whitney Medium
Whitney Medium Italic
Whitney Semibold
Whitney Semibold Italic
Whitney Bold
Whitney Bold Italic
Whitney Black
Whitney Black Italic

References

"Sale & Assignment of Type Fonts". New York State Unified Court System.
"Fonts by Hoefler&Co.".

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