GOT BALLS? ARCHER
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Archer uses ball terminals in both the lower and uppercase forms.
FEATURE OVERVIEW
“A font that’s friendly without being silly, and attractive without being flashy…well-mannered, easy to work with, and inviting to read.”
But as marvelous as so many of those slab serifs were, sadly they were let down when it came to lighter, or more usable text weights. It is Archer that stood out, with H&FJ concentrating on the lighter
half of the spectrum, eight weights offering a delightful range of contrast, but never venturing heavier than bold. Making a text face distinctive with a clear personality that can scale right up to display sizes is a mammoth task at the best of times, but a slab? Yet here it is; with its judicious yet brave use of ball terminals, and blending
geometry with sexy cursive forms, all brought together with the kind of historical and intellectual rigour you fully expect from this particular foundry, Archer succeeds where others falter. I only hope that in its use out in the wild (and away from that jailbird Martha Stewart) people give it the same level of thought.
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A slew of slab serifs were released in 2008. Most of them continuing trend of following the cute and chunky approach, often to delicious effect.
FEATURE OVERVIEW
Little known facts Balls were added to the upper terminals on letters such as C and G to increase its charm.
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STRUCTURE Archer is a geometric or neo-grotesque slab serif, one with a geometric design similar to sans-serif fonts. It takes inspiration from mid-twentieth century designs such as Rockwell. The face is unique for
combining the geometric structure of twentieth-century European slab-serifs but imbuing the face with a domestic, less strident tone of voice. Balls were added to the upper terminals on letters such as C and G to increase its charm. Italics are true italic designs, with
flourishes influenced by calligraphy, an unusual feature for geometric slab serif designs. As with many Hoefler & Frere-Jones designs, it was released in a wide range of weights from hairline to bold, reflecting its design goal as a typeface for complex magazines.
ORIGIN
Little known facts Archer combines the ordinariness of Antiques with the modern practicality of Geometrics.
2001
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Archer is a slab serif typeface designed in 2001 by Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler for use in Martha Stewart Living magazine. It was later released by Hoefler & Frere-Jones for commercial licensing.
“Sorry
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Martha! you don’t own Archer.”
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Typefaces designed
United they stood
DESIGNERS
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Archer Gotham Hoefler Text Requiem Surveyor Whitney
a formidable knowledge of typographic history paired with an impeccable eye for combining, adapting and evolving traditional letterforms into entirely original type systems. As a duo, Hoefler and Frere-Jones
have a singular ability to decode contemporary visual culture, translate it and express it in typefaces of considerable technical quality and emotional impact. Jonathan Hoefler
Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones are responsible for some of the digital era’s most well-designed and beautifully crafted typefaces. The type designers bring to their collaborative work
honor innovations in type design. In 2009, they became the first typeface designers to be recognized by the National Design Awards. Both Hoefler and Frere-Jones are regular speakers at international conferences. The company’s biography until its split stated,
“Hoefler’s work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum(Smithsonian Institution) in New York. In 2002, The Association Typographique Internationale
(ATypI) presented Hoefler with its most prestigious award, the Prix Charles Peignot for outstanding contributions to type design. Hoefler and Frere-Jones’ collaboration has earned them profiles in The New York Times, Time, and Esquire.”
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Jonathan Hoefler was the recipient of the 2002 Prix Charles Peignot for outstanding contributions to typeface design. In 2006, Tobias Frere-Jones received the prestigious Gerrit Noordzij Prize, an award given by the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) to
Little known facts
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With a library of almost 800 typefaces. The foundry boasts a list of famous clients, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Tiffany, Nike, Hewlett-Packard, and more.
DESIGNERS
On January 16, 2014, designer Tobias Frere-Jones filed a lawsuit in the courts of New York state against Jonathon Hoefler. The Beatles of the type world, aren’t getting back together any time soon.
divided they fell.
Awards won
Tobias Frere-Jones
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[Thin]
WEIGHTS
[SemiBold]
[Light]
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[Bold] Little known facts Wes Anderson has ditched his standard Futura for Archer in the poster for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
[Medium]
[Book]
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The complete Archer range of 40 styles: eight weights from Hairline to Bold, each in Roman, Italic, and Small Caps, and featuring tabular figures, fractions, and indices.
WEIGHTS
[Hairline]
Old-style figures
Lining figures
0123456789 Old-style figures, also known as “ranging figures” or “non-lining figures,” are numbers whose shapes are designed to harmonize with the proportions and rhythm of the lowercase. Old-style figures, intended for use in upper- and lowercase text, are essential when accompanying small caps; they’re especially useful for postal codes which contain both letters and numbers.
NUMBERICS
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Lining figures, standard in all editions of Archer, are designed around the shapes of the uppercase. While lining figures are always recommended when setting in all caps, Archer’s lining figures have been designed to a proportion that makes them attractive and useful in upper- and lowercase setting as well—especially useful in newsier contexts where old-style figures might seem quaint.
Archer contains both old-style and lining figures, each with a set of matching punctuation, plus tabular figures and fractions for setting charts and tables.
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The numbers themselves. 0123456789
Little known facts OpenType users will also find superscripts and subscripts included, useful for both footnotes and scientific formulae.
Fractions
Pro editions of Archer include readymade “case fractions” in denominations of halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, and eighths. Also included is a full set of numerators and denominators, all properly kerned to the fraction bar, for creating custom fractions. OpenType users will also find superscripts and subscripts included, useful for both footnotes and scientific formulae.
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For each of Archer’s weights, we’ve designed a full set of tabular figures, built on a fixed width to ensure that columns of data align correctly. Tabular figures are included in both the Archer Pro editions and the Archer Complete package.
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NUMERICS
Like letters, numbers are proportional: they vary in width according to their shapes, from the narrow 1 to the wide 0. These variations help numbers sympathize with the natural rhythms of the alphabet, making their appearance in text less conspicuous. But this practice introduces problems when used for tables, where the alignment of columns is paramount. Enter tabular figures.
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Tabular Figures
Indices
Lining figures for titles, old-style figures for text, fixed-width figures for tables, and fractions and indices and more — they’re all inside.
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CHARACTER
small caps
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lower case
ABCDEGHI JKLMNOPQRSTU VWXYZ
upper case
abcdeghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz
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Character is power. Archer succeeds where others falter.
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Archer ScreenSmart is an adaptation of the family specifically engineered for the screen, and available for use on the web.
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Little known facts
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Archer can be paired with Gotham, Verlag, knockout.
Degree: MFA Class: Type Composition Designer: Krishnapriya Dutta Gupta Instructor: Andrew Loesel
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