Commercial · Serif · Hoefler&Co
Chronicle Text
Chronicle Text is a licensed font from Hoefler&Co: $199, 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 Text 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
- 60
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $199 (Chronicle Text Grade 1 (one grade); Chronicle Text Complete, all 60 styles in Pro editions, $499. 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
Text serif in the Scotch style, created for the Toronto Star in 2002; four grades for different printing conditions, with Pro editions.
Free alternatives to Chronicle Text
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Chronicle Text 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 Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional text serif with a comparable sturdiness and a full weight range; no press grades.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Caslon Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Text.
same classification
A text serif of similar warmth, though Caslon is an old-style model rather than Scotch.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Newsreader webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Newsreader.
same classification
A serif drawn for news reading with optical sizes; shares Chronicle’s editorial purpose.
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