Requiem is an old-style serif typeface designed by

Jonathan Hoefler Jonathan Hoefler (; born August 22, 1970) is an American typeface designer. Hoefler founded the Hoefler Type Foundry in 1989, a type foundry in New York. Early life Jonathan Hoefler was born on August 22, 1970, in New York City to Doreen Ben ...

in 1992 for '' Travel + Leisure'' magazine and sold by his company, Hoefler & Co. The typeface takes inspiration from a set of inscriptional capitals found in Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi's 1523 writing manual, ''Il Modo de Temperare le Penne'', and its italics are based on the chancery calligraphy, or ''

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'' of the period. Like many other typefaces designed by Hoefler & Co., the family is large, intended for professional use. It is designed with three separate optical sizes of font, intended for different sizes of text, as well as two different styles of capitals inside

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s intended for title pages and frontispieces. It also contains fleurons and italic ligatures inspired by calligraphy, as well as stylistic alternates such as an alternative 'Y' character. Like typefaces of the period in which Arrighi worked, it does not contain a bold style, as these were only invented in the nineteenth century.

Variants

Three optical sizes, with regular (or roman) and italic styles for each: * Requiem Fine: for very large sizes, especially thin serifs and overall

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* Requiem Display: for large sizes * Requiem Text: for body text, higher

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There are no small caps in the italic styles. * Requiem Display Ornaments: cartouches for large sizes * Requiem Text Ornaments: cartouches for small sizes Some releases of Requiem may also contain small caps, italic ligature and fleuron characters as separate fonts.

Uses

* The title and credits of the movie '' Signs''. * The title and credits of the movie '' Pride & Prejudice''. * The feline novel series ''

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'' by

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. * The novel ''

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'' by David Mitchell. * The opening credits of the

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series '' Ghost Whisperer''. * The opening credits of the

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series '' Hannibal''. * The novel ''

Americanah ''Americanah'' is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. ''Americanah'' tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates t ...

'' by

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* Marshall McLuhan’s republished doctoral dissertation

References

*Dodd, Robin. ''From Gutenberg to Open Type.'' Hartley & Marks: 2006. . *Macmillan, Neil. ''An A–Z of Type Designers.''

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: 2006. {{ISBN, 978-0-300-11151-4.
Typography.com
Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Web site page on Requiem

External links

Specimen of Arrighi's ''cancelleresca corsiva''
Fonts In Use website
- prominent uses of Requiem Old style serif typefaces Typefaces with text figures Hoefler & Frere-Jones typefaces Typefaces designed by Jonathan Hoefler Typefaces with optical sizes Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1992

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Uses

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