Commercial · Serif · Hoefler&Co
Chronicle Display
Chronicle Display is a licensed font from Hoefler&Co: $179, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Chronicle Display is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Jonathan Hoefler
- Released
- 2002
- Styles
- 52
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $179 (Chronicle Hairline; Chronicle Display $199; Chronicle Display Complete, all 52 styles, $799. Prices read from typography.com’s product JSON (the same data the styles page renders); shown on the page as US dollar amounts.) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Display counterpart to Chronicle Text in the Scotch style; Deck and Display families in regular, condensed and compressed widths plus a hairline.
Free alternatives to Chronicle Display
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Chronicle Display is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Playfair Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Playfair Display.
commonly substituted
High-contrast display serif of a similar late-eighteenth-century flavour; its forms are more Didone than Scotch.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Caslon Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Display.
same classification
A display serif with hairline serifs for headlines; old-style rather than Scotch in structure.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The DM Serif Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not DM Serif Display.
same classification
A single-weight display serif with high contrast; no condensed widths.
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