Giant Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Giant contains 3 styles and family package options. Part of the Shades collection of two-color fonts, Giant is an unexpected brew of different idioms from the world of commercial lettering. The Giant typeface was designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1996. A sly mashup of different industrial idioms, including spray-painted stencils, feltboard office directories, and surface-gilt window letters, Giant was commissioned by Barbara Glauber on behalf of the iconic rock duo They Might Be Giants. A ‘chromatic’ typeface, Giant includes the two styles Background and Highlight, designed to be set in different colors and superimposed in register. Originally known as They Might Be Gothic, the Giant typeface first appeared on the band’s 1996 album Factory Showroom. From the desk of the designer: Designer Barbara Glauber wanted to “crash different vernaculars” when she designed They Might Be Giants’ Factory Showroom album. The typeface she commissioned us to design (formerly known as They Might Be Gothic) pits industrial letterforms against commercial ones in a stylistic deathmatch: we applied the faceting of surface-gilt window letters to the typography of the feltboard office directory, with an added dose of industrial stencilling that periodically ignores the dictates of logic.
