Commercial · Serif · Hoefler&Co
Surveyor
Surveyor 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. Surveyor 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 and Tobias Frere-Jones
- Released
- 2001
- Styles
- 100
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $199 (Surveyor Text Basic package; Surveyor Complete, all 100 styles, $497. 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
Serif modelled on the engraved lettering of nineteenth-century British maps, with a steeply sloped italic. Text, Display and Fine optical sizes; created for Martha Stewart Living.
Free alternatives to Surveyor
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Surveyor 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.
same classification
A high-contrast serif in the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century transitional idiom close to Surveyor’s engraved sources.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Bodoni webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Bodoni.
same classification
A Bodoni revival with hairline serifs; more rigid than Surveyor’s engraved forms.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rufina webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rufina.
same classification
A high-contrast serif with a display flavour and a lively italic.
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