15 september 2021

I’m pleased to announce that today, Hoefler&Co is joining the Monotype family.

It’s been thirty-two years, four months, and fourteen days since I hung out a shingle to announce that The Hoefler Type Foundry was open for business. What started as a sole proprietorship grew into the Hoefler&Co of today, a diversified design and technology practice with an international reach, still dedicated to the invention of original, thoughtful, and hard-working typefaces. Today, millions of designers use our typefaces in their work, and with the addition of Monotype’s experience, resources, and expertise, we look forward to the next million who will make our work a part of their own. And I’m especially pleased to share the news that Monotype plans to distribute our typefaces through its Monotype Fonts offering, making it even easier for creative teams to discover, explore, and deploy the fonts in our collection.

Nothing’s changing at typography.com, where you’ll still find all 1,113 fonts in the Hoefler&Co library, as well as the cloud.typography webfont service, and all the other resources we’ve created for designers and brands. The H&Co team is staying in place, too, and there are yet more typefaces from us that you can look forward to seeing soon. On deck right now are two projects unlike anything we’ve ever done before, yet each in its own way classic Hoefler&Co: one, a historical curio that finally answers a two-hundred-year-old typographic riddle, the other a colossal family of functional typefaces with a positively gonzo character set. I’m excited for these to see the light of day, and as always, I can’t wait to see what you’ll do with them.

In the meantime, today will be my last day at the company, and the start of finally making the time to recharge, reflect, and explore new ideas. In these past few years, participating in a documentary and using typography to help elect a president have been potent reminders of just how many ways there are for type to make a difference, and just how many people are moved by the splendor of typography.

I am inexpressibly grateful to the many people over these past three decades for whom my work has meant something, and to the talented individuals who have helped make this work possible. First among them is my wife Carleen, who almost twenty years ago took the extraordinary step of coming aboard to help lead a type foundry, and become the ceo who made sure that Hoefler&Co delivered on all of its early promise. To the designers who have trusted their work to my alphabets, the students who have taken the time to write, and the ever-growing community of people around the world who have shared my affection for the craft, I am so deeply thankful. I haven’t decided what the next step of my journey will look like, but I’ll be sharing things on my personal Twitter Threads and Instagram as they develop. Whatever comes next, I know it will involve letters, and I hope it will once again involve you.

Jonathan Hoefler