Saracen
Hoefler & Co · Jonathan Hoefler · 1992
A Latin wedge-serif display face in The Proteus Project, drawn as a missing Victorian gem with widths that match its three sibling families.
About
A display serif by Jonathan Hoefler that fills the Latin (wedge serif) slot in The Proteus Project, a four-family system whose members share character widths so they can be interchanged almost invisibly. H&Co note that although the wedge serif is a nineteenth-century innovation, Saracen does not resemble any font of the era, and is offered as the straightforward proportion that Victorian typefounders somehow never produced. Useful for posters, packaging, signage and identity work that wants Victorian wedge-serif character with a clean, contemporary build, and for editorial settings that want to swap between Latin, Egyptian, Tuscan and grotesque styles without disturbing line breaks.
Classification
H&Co describe Saracen as the Latin (wedge serif) member of The Proteus Project, a collection of four interchangeable nineteenth-century display families that share character widths so they can be swapped almost invisibly.