Retina is a font by created by Tobias Frere-Jones for The Wall Street Journal, which used it for high density print in their newspapers from 2000 to 2007.

It was created to be legible at very small font sizes, using ink traps to stop smearing during the printing process.

[7] The Wall Street Journal condensed the size of its pages in 2007, replacing Retina with another font that was also developed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones called Exchange.

[6] In 2011 Retina was one of twenty-three digital fonts acquired by MoMA for its Architecture and Design collection[2] after being gifted to the museum by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, and the font is now used by many newspapers for high density texts such as stock information and classified ads.

[1] Retina is a sans-serif font[1] designed for high-density texts[3] and comes in a microplus and standard version.