Champion Gothic
Hoefler & Co · Jonathan Hoefler · 1990
A six-cut wood-type gothic by Jonathan Hoefler, originally drawn for Sports Illustrated and named after boxing weight classes, built for sports and editorial headlines.
About
A wood-type gothic by Jonathan Hoefler, commissioned by Sports Illustrated in 1990 and built from a survey of nineteenth-century American wood type. Six cuts named for boxing weight classes, Lightweight, Welterweight, Middleweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight and Heavyweight, run from light condensed to ultrabold compressed, each tuned for headlines rather than text. The family is most familiar from American sports magazines and broadcast graphics, where its blocky, slightly irregular contours read as muscular and old-American.
Classification
H&Co classify Champion Gothic as a family of six sans serifs at different widths and weights, modelled on nineteenth-century American wood type. Originally commissioned by Sports Illustrated, with each cut named after a boxing weight class.