High Tower Text font family

Overview

In 1994 Tobias Frere-Jones completed Hightower for the Journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. For as long as he had drawn letters, he had wrestled with the problems posed by any modern rendition of the fifteenth century Venetian roman. Dissatisfied with others' attempts to bring Nicholas Jenson's 1470 roman up to date, Frere-Jones prepared his version of this calligraphic roman, and developing his own personal italic; FB .

	Description
File name	Htowert.ttf Htowerti.ttf
Styles & Weights	High Tower Text High Tower Text Italic
Designers	Tobias Frere-Jones
Copyright	Copyright (c) 1996, Tobias Frere-Jones. Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones. Produced by The Font Bureau, Inc. All rights reserved.
Font vendor	The Font Bureau, Inc.
Script Tags	N/A
Code pages	1252 Latin 1 Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman)
Fixed pitch	False

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Style & weight examples

High Tower Text

High Tower Text Italic