Historical Allsorts Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Historical Allsorts contains 4 styles and family package options. The Historical Allsorts were designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1992. An experiment to digitally record the shapes of typographic artifacts, rather than interpret them through new drawings, the collection salutes three milestones in early typography: a textura, a civilité, and a set of ‘old style’ book faces from collection known as The Fell Types. The Historical Allsorts first appeared in the pages of Rolling Stone in 1994. English Textura. The English Textura records the blackletter and uncial capitals cut by Henric Pieterszoon Lettersnijder some time before 1492. The original textura was made in the ‘English’ size, roughly equivalent to a modern 14 point; the uncials were created in the ‘great primer’ size, akin to 18 point. Civilité. The Civilité is the St. Augustin Lettre Francoise of around 1562, a splendid interpretation of a French secretary hand cut in type by Robert Granjon, the greatest virtuoso of typography’s golden age. The original type was made in the ‘St. Augustin’ size, about 14 point. The Fell Types. ‘The Fell Types’ are a collection of typographic materials assembled for the Oxford University Press in the late seventeenth century by Dr. John Fell. These typefaces record the ‘Great Primer’ book faces (roughly 14 point) in roman and italic, cut by Peter de Walpergen before 1693. The Fell Types connect the seventeenth century ‘old style’ types created on the European continent, and English old styles of the Enlightenment.
