: The Paris Review logo font? What is the font used in the Paris Review logo? WTF suggests Stone Serif, but the shapes are very different. I've also tried fontspring.com, whatfontis.com, fonts.com

@Karen819

Estienne—or some slight variation of it.

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@LarsenBagley460

Late reply as it's interesting. While custom, this looks a lot like Fournier, the Roman du Roi or some of the other fonts of the eighteenth century. The tell is the curled leg of the 'R', which is an eighteenth/late-seventeeth-century feature, and the narrow, almost monoline serifs, although the 'h' with its leg folding inwards is more sixteenth. Fournier has been digitised by Monotype, Typofonderie and Joshua Darden, so you have a bit of choice. Fleischmann's types are also in the same mood.

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@Kevin459

According to a 22 September 2010 interview with the designer of the current website, Jennifer Over, the Paris Review logotype is not something you'll be able to download:


We also really wanted to embrace certain design elements of the print magazine, like the hand-rendered logotype, some of the mid-century-modern typography and the frontispiece illustration by William Pène du Bois.


(Emphasis added.)

The same question was asked on WTF in 2010: it remains "unsolved".

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