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Digital Font, Sniglet
This is a Digital font. It was designed by Haley Fiege. It is dated 2008 and we acquired it in 2024. Its medium is digital font. It is a part of the Digital department.
Sniglet is an early, open-source web font designed by Haley Fiege in 2008 while a student at Toronto’s Ontario College of Art and Design. Fiege licenses Sniglet under an Open Font License (OFL) that allows anyone to download, install, and modify the font for free for personal or commercial use. It was among the first typefaces launched in 2009 on The League of Moveable Type—the first open-source type foundry, established at a time when web browsers were beginning to enable custom fonts.
Fiege created Sniglet’s rounded, balloon-like letterforms as a playful update of Gill Sans extra bold’s chunky letters. She hand-drew the letterforms before digitizing and finalizing them using TypeTool and Adobe Illustrator. The typeface’s name comes from the word sniglet, a term introduced in the 1980s to describe something for which no dictionary word existed. Sniglet’s distinct personality, its soft squishy letterforms, and full Latin character set have made it a popular typeface over the years, particularly for display headings and posters.
It is credited Collected from the public domain by Cooper Hewitt in collaboration with the designer.
Cite this object as
Digital Font, Sniglet; Designed by Haley Fiege ((Canadian, b. 1985)); digital font; Collected from the public domain by Cooper Hewitt in collaboration with the designer; 2024-19-1-a/f
