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Surveyor

Surveyor is a Didone serif typeface that recalls type found on engraved maps and charts.

About Surveyor

Surveyor is a Didone serif typeface that recalls type found on engraved maps and charts. It was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in 2001 as a custom typeface for use in Martha Stewart Living magazine and released publicly in March 2013, in a wider range of styles, by the type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones (now known as Hoefler&Co.). Describing it, Jonathan Hoefler said: We had the twin goals of making a typeface that felt very handmade, to evoke the craft philosophy of the magazine, and that could handle all of the charts, tables, recipes, graphs, almanacs and step-by-step instructions that they run in the magazine. We had been waiting to do a typeface based on the distinct style of lettering you find on engraved maps ...

From the Wikipedia article “Surveyor (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Surveyor in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

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