Requiem (typeface)

Requiem is an <a href="/facts/Serif/Ef9KtHfp">old-style</a> <a href="/facts/Serif/Ef9KtHfp">serif</a> typeface designed by <a href="/facts/Jonathan_Hoefler/XKGpuWta">Jonathan Hoefler</a> in 1992 for <a href="/facts/Travel_%252B_Leisure/tKAI9h8E">Travel + Leisure</a> magazine and sold by his company, <a href="/facts/Hoefler_%2526_Co./k5stbwlT">Hoefler & Co.</a> The typeface takes inspiration from a set of inscriptional capitals found in <a href="/facts/Ludovico_Vicentino_degli_Arrighi/qwndcIJ6">Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi's</a> 1523 writing manual, Il Modo de Temperare le Penne, and its italics are based on the <a href="/facts/Chancery_(medieval_office)/WHB2mLXB">chancery</a> calligraphy, or <a href="/facts/Chancery_hand/oUITLpnx">cancelleresca corsiva</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Font/04Q7sE8J">optical sizes</a> of font, intended for different sizes of text, as well as two different styles of capitals inside <a href="/facts/Cartouche/RuegmyFU">cartouches</a> intended for title pages and frontispieces. It also contains fleurons and italic <a href="/facts/Typographic_ligature/urMIGfmN">ligatures</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Boldface/RXGfXwcG">bold</a> style, as these were only invented in the nineteenth century.

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Requiem (typeface)