On a recent project, we needed the font that uses Wikipedia in its logo. After a lot of searching we found out that he uses Hoefler Text.
When Jonathan Hoefler founded his 1989 company, digital printing was at its beginnings. Few of the large fonts had been converted into digital form, and the addition of new ones was done in slow and reluctant steps.
Adobe gradually began to produce several prototypes, which it called "old-fashioned elements" and "small-cap" or "old-style figures" and "small caps."
The Hoefler Text font, came to revive a series of other traditions that were once the focus of print: The fonts ligature sets,and engraved capitals of the twentieth century along with the old arabesques they gave the Hoefler Text which he added points punctuation and small-cap italics, expanding the reach of digital typography beyond the United States as it featured foreign symbols and accents.
Jonathan Hoefler then created the homonymous font that would later be used by the largest digital encyclopedia.
The font is available today free for everyone who is interested in using it on their computer. Download the file and open it.
If you don't know how to install it, things are very simple. Double click in the file listed below and "install" from the upper left corner of the window that will open.
Download the font that Wikipedia uses in its logo