Linotype Mindline™ Font Family

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The German designer Critzler created the fonts Linotype Down Town™, Linotype Go Tekk™ and Linotype Mindline™ in 1997. These fonts are included in the Take Type Library, chosen from the contestants of Linotype's International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. The cheerful character of Linotype Down Town is perfect for comics or posters. The figures dance across the base line, swinging between thick and thing, big and small. Linotype Down Town is intended exclusively for headlines [...]

A fun font of the TakeType No. 2.1. Linotype Mindline is a creation of Critzler. He was inspired by the font designs of Neville Brody, which proved that typography can indeed be newly invented. Linotype Mindline should be seen as an experiment which strives to take font design in new directions. The eye has to really work to recognize the individual letters. Linotype Mindline is available in two weights, Mindline Inside and Mindline Outside, which combine well with each other. The idea [...]

Linotype Mindline is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. With Mindline, the German designer Critzler plays with geometry and typefaces. Each character is basically a rectangle with a geometric form etched in it which happens to be a member of the alphabet. This formal style comes from the advertisement typefaces of the 1920s and is reminiscent of the constructivist posters of this time. The appearance of the characters take priority over the funcitonality and the eye can hardly recognize the forms of letters and numerals which meet it everyday. Linotype Mindline makes us take another look at forms which we see so often that we hardly notice them, only reading them for the information which they impart, and the font is therefore best used when the content of the text less important is than the impression its forms make.