graphic design genre typeface design predecessors hoefler & frere jones hoefler type foundry founded 1989 1997 2004 2014 currently subject of legal dispute founder jonathan hoefler tobias frere jones currently subject of legal dispute headquarters new york city united states number of locations 1 key people jonathan hoefler tobias frere jones formerly products archer gotham hoefler text requiem surveyor whitney website www.typography.com hoefler & co. h & co is a type foundry in new york city run by type designer jonathan hoefler which achieved its greatest fame while working with tobias frere jones under the name hoefler & frere jones from 1999 to 2014 . 1 h & co develops fonts for both the retail market and for individual clients . clients include the new york times the guardian the sun the times and esquire . 2 the company was founded in 1989 and created original typefaces on commission for rolling stone sports illustrated harper s bazaar and the new york times . h & co remains heavily involved in editorial design with recent commissions from martha stewart living the wall street journal esquire wired and cond nast portfolio as well as corporate typefaces created for tiffany & co. nike inc. and hewlett packard . it has worked with a number of prominent institutions in new york city including the headquarters of the united nations the guggenheim museum the whitney museum lever house radio city music hall and the new york jets . because of its connection to new york city history its gotham typeface was selected in 2004 for the cornerstone of one world trade center to be built on the world trade center site . contents 1 work 2 awards 3 conflict between hoefler and frere jones 4 typefaces 5 references 6 external links work edit the company s family hoefler text showing its large range of features . the company specialised in developing extremely complex comprehensive fonts for use in newspapers and magazines requiring a wide range of styles its gotham typeface for gq extends to 74 for print alone and its surveyor family to 100 . 3 4 5 its designs often took inspiration from the past and under known aspects of typeface design such as soviet house numbers metal lettering on bus terminals engraved maps and old petrol pumps but generally avoided direct historical revivals . 6 bloomberg businessweek commented that hoefler and frere jones bonded over a dislike of so called grunge typography which trafficked in angst and messiness . neither frere jones nor hoefler took to that trend preferring a cleaner style based on historic typefaces . 7 the company s work was profiled in the new york times time esquire wallpaper and wired as well as the design publications baseline cap & design creativepro communication arts desktop eye design graphis inc. i.d. idea idn metropolis page print publish and 81 . h & co s work is part of the permanent collections of both the smithsonian institution and the victoria & albert museum and has been recognized by the american institute of graphic arts and the national design awards . awards edit 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 honor innovations in type design . in 2009 they became the first typeface designers to be recognized by the national design awards . 8 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 . 9 conflict between hoefler and frere jones edit on january 16 2014 designer tobias frere jones filed a lawsuit in the courts of new york state against jonathan hoefler . 10 the lawsuit alleges that frere jones was entitled to own half of the type foundry based on an oral agreement made in 1999 . according to the alleged agreement frere jones transferred ownership of his fonts to the company for 10 usd and the company was renamed hoefler & frere jones . frere jones contends that the foundry was intended to be run as an equal partnership . the new york times commented most outsiders and even former employees assumed that the two were in fact 50 50 partners 11 while businessweek noted several designers i spoke with said they were under the impression that hoefler was almost exclusively focused on managing the business in recent years leaving design to frere jones . 7 in a blog post the next day the company s general counsel issued a statement on the foundry s website saying the allegations are not the facts and they profoundly misrepresent tobias s relationship with both the company and jonathan . this release announced the rebranding of h & fj as hoefler & co. and described frere jones as a longtime employee . the lawsuit was settled on 28 september 2014 shortly before the discovery phase of the trial was scheduled to begin . 12 13 the terms of the settlement were not disclosed . 12 typefaces edit archer gotham hoefler text requiem surveyor whitney references edit dunlap david . 2 type designers joining forces and faces . new york times . retrieved 28 september 2014 . tobias frere jones design history research . wordpress.com . gotham . h & fj . gotham rounded . h & fj . retrieved 28 september 2014 . surveyor . h & fj . retrieved 28 september 2014 . numbers . h & fj . retrieved 28 september 2014 . a b brustein joshua . font war inside the design world s 20 million divorce . businessweek . bloomberg . retrieved 28 september 2014 . national design awards . cooper hewitt smithsonian design museum . 404 not found hoefler & co. . typography.com . index no. 650139 2014 tobias frere jones plaintiff against jonathan hoefler . new york supreme court . jan 16 2014 . retrieved 19 november 2014 . cohen noam . typography partners part ways in money fight . new york times . retrieved 28 september 2014 . a b the world s biggest typeface lawsuit just settled . sep 29 2014 . retrieved feb 10 2015 . font feud finished hoefler & frere jones part ways . oct 2 2014 . retrieved feb 10 2015 . iapps.courts.state.ny.us parascope new york times external links edit official website catalogue of typefaces designed hoefler & co. on facebook retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hoefler % 26 co. & oldid 737209265 categories commercial type foundriescompanies established in 1989graphic design studiostype foundries navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces 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