As part of our commitment to providing a seamless and innovative type experience for our customers and partners, we've made the decision to discontinue Linotype.com over the next year.
Our customers deserve a service that offers expertise, discovery, and an unmatched search function. We are unfortunately no longer able to maintain this level of quality on Linotype.com, which were originally built with a more simplified function.
Sol Hess was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1886 and died on January 30, 1953. As a young man he attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design and began working for Lanston Monotype in 1902. In 1922 he became the Typographic Manager. He has worked there with the Monotype Art Director Frederic Goudy and then took over that position in 1940.