In a recent project, we needed the font used by Wikipedia in its logo. After much searching we discovered that it uses Hoefler Text.
When Jonathan Hoefler founded his company in 1989, digital printing was in its infancy. A few of the big lettersseries had been converted into digital form, and the procase of young people was done with slow and hesitant steps.
Adobe slowly began to produce several prototypes, which it called with concepts such as “data old-style” and “small capitalization” or “old-style figures” and “small caps.”
The Hoefler Text font came to revive a number of others traditions, which was once at the heart of printing: Fonts ligature sets,and engraved capitals of the twentieth century along with the old arabesques gave Hoefler Text added punctuation and lowercase italics, extending the scope of digital printing beyond the United States, as it contained foreign symbols and tones.
Jonathan Hoefler then created the homonymous font that would later be used by the largest digital encyclopedia.
The font today is available for free to anyone interested in using it on their computer. Download the files and open it.
If you don't know how to install it, things are very simple. Double click on archive that we list below and "install" from the upper left corner of the window that will open.
Download the font that Wikipedia uses in its logo