Ziggurat Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Ziggurat contains 2 styles and family package options. Ziggurat is the cornerstone of The Proteus Project, a collection of four interchangeable type families designed in different nineteenth century styles. The Ziggurat typeface was designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1991. Ziggurat is inspired by the dark slab serif poster types of the English Regency (1811–1820), when typography’s focus first shifted from conservative book faces to the novel styles that would serve advertising. Because the first slab serifs were coeval with a fad for antiquity, they came to be known as ‘egyptians,’ one of many arbitrary period names that has survived into modern typography, such as ‘latin’ and ‘gothic.’ Ziggurat is the cornerstone of The Proteus Project, a typographic theme-and-variations created for Rolling Stone, in whose pages the typeface first appeared in 1991. From the desk of the designer: Not explicitly a revival of any one typeface, Ziggurat takes its cues from the entire aesthetic of early slab serif (or “Egyptian”) metal types, primarily those produced in Great Britain between 1815 and 1840
