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Design Category
Typographic design, 2004
Design firm
Hoefler & Frere-Jones (New York, New York)
Collection
(2005) AIGA 365: 26
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When typography turned burlesque in the beginning of the 19th century, one of the first stylistic idioms that type founders explored was the dimensional letter. Metal and wood types of the period are rife with beveled, faceted and shadowed letters; for Knox, we applied the faceting of Alexander Nesbitt's 16 Line Pica Octagon of 1838.