Forza Font

Jonathan Hoefler designed Forza in 2006 for Wired, with contributions from Tobias Frere-Jones, Andy Clymer and Sara Soskolne. It developed as a sans-serif companion to Vitesse. The magazine’s varied editorial needs informed a family with more range than a single futuristic display treatment.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

The foundry describes a soft-cornered barrel motif rather than a simple circle or square. Compare the lowercase and less-common symbols as well as capitals. ScreenSmart is a separate screen-oriented adaptation, so retain the exact resource identity when moving between print and web layouts.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Set a technology headline, a short paragraph and a numeric specification row. Compare the weight choices at actual reading size and inspect symbols needed by the article. Use the drawn italic rather than applying a generic slant to an upright resource.

For independent comparisons, try Michroma and Manrope. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Hoefler&Co. to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Forza font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.