Whitney is a family of humanist sans-serif digital typefaces, designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones. It was originally created for New York's Whitney Museum as its institutional typeface. Two key requirements were flexibility for editorial requirements and a design consistency with the Whitney Museum's existing public signage.
Typographical context Whitney was created in 2004 by the foundry of Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Whitney bridges the divide between editorial mainstays such as News Gothic (1908), which is an American gothic typeface, and signage application standards such as Frutiger (1975), which is a European humanist typeface. Moreover, "its compact forms and broad x-height use space efficiently, and its ample counters and open shapes make it clear under any circumstances."
Variants Whitney Light Whitney Light Italic Whitney Book Whitney Book Italic Whitney Medium Whitney Medium Italic Whitney Semibold Whitney Semibold Italic Whitney Bold Whitney Bold Italic Whitney Black Whitney Black Italic
References
External links Whitney Font in the Hoefler & Co. catalog Whitney Font in the MyFonts catalog