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Agilita™ is a new humanistic sanserif typeface designed by Jürgen Weltin. The mulitilingual OpenType font family has rather classical proportions, to give it more distinct word shapes through clear descenders and ascenders.
This new face has a dynamic, yet strong and very functional appearance with a fine but clear emphasis on the horizontals.
The classical approach of Agilita makes it a versatile typeface for largescale textsetting but it can also be used in complex information design [...]
Scare up some Halloween spirits with these 33 spooky styled fonts!
No matter if you are throwing a costume party, advertising for a haunted house, or just trying create a ghoulish atmosphere, these fonts are guaranteed to be just what you need!
The Halloween Value Pack gives you five great fonts for one low price. Included in it are three creepy typefaces and two horriffic Pi fonts!
We also offer many other designs as individual weights. Here are our picks for many other great designs!
Here is a selection of hidden font gems. You might know some of these designs already … but do you know them all?
We hope that you enjoy sifting through this selection!
Clear forms, classic and simple – Erik Faulhaber’s Aeonis family
After Generis™, Aeonis™ is the second large family of typefaces by Erik Faulhaber. The basic Aeonis sans-serif form references Ancient Greek lapidary inscriptions from the 9th century BC. A typical characteristic of this is the open form of the capital A in the Aeonis family. The curved forms in Aeonis were inspired by a lamp designed by the famous German industrial designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld in 1952. Between [...]
Morris Fuller Benton – born 30. 11. 1872 in Milwaukee, USA, died 30. 6. 1948 in Morristown, USA – engineer, type designer.
After training as a mechanic and engineer, Benton jointed the ATF, where he became type designer and in-house designer with ATF.
Fonts: Benton developed over 200 alphabets, all of which were published by ATF, including Century roman (with Theodor Low de Vinne, 1885), Mariage (1901), Alternate Gothic (1903), Franklin Gothic (1903–12), Cheltenham® (1904), Clearface® [...]
Jürgen Weltin was born on May 8th, 1969 in Constance. After schooling and swimming a lot in the Lake of Constance he worked in a publishing house before he started to study graphic design at the Technical College in Würzburg. After an apprenticeship in design company Stankowski + Duschek and after one term at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design he graduated in Würzburg under Reinhard Haus from Linotype presenting the beginning of the new typeface Linotype Finnegan®.
Then he [...]
German designer Hermann Zapf created the following fonts:
Aldus® (1954), Aldus Nova (2005), Aurelia™ (1983), Comenius® Antiqua BQ (1976), Edison™ (1978), Kompakt™ (1954), Marconi® (1976), Medici® Script (1971), Melior® (1952), Noris Script® (1976), Optima® (1958), Optima nova (2002), Orion™ (1974), Palatino™® (1950), Palatino nova (2005), Palatino™ Sans (2006), Saphir™ (1953), Sistina® (1950), Vario™ (1982), Venture™ (1969), Virtuosa® Classic (2009), [...]
German designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse created the following fonts:
Alcuin® (1991), Ariadne® (1954), Carmina® (1986), Christiana® (1991), Colombine® (1991), Diotima® (1952), Diotima® Classic (2008), Nofret® (1984) Shakespeare™ (1968), Smaragd™ (1953).
Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Gudrun Zapf von Hesse.
The German designer Roman Sehrer created the font Ad Pro™ in 2004.
Roman Sehrer has digitized his handwriting to create a family of three fonts to meet your free-feeling and laid back design needs. He recommends that you try this family out on posters, logos, and restaurant menus, where in each case it will offer a great combination and contrast to traditional sans serifs like Helvetica® or like Univers®.
German designer Carla Schweyer created the font Linotype Ambigue™ in 1999. The original name was "Confidence". This font family receives the first prize at the German Kurt Christians-Foerderpreis in 1997/98. This professional typeface is available in the weights Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black. Its interpolated weights offer a subtle differentiation in the grey levels. A special "Small" weights is available which offers a better readability in small point sizes like lexica and [...]
Born in Germany (1966). Studied Graphic-Design in Karlsruhe. Freelance designer since 1996. Held teaching assignments in Halle, Weimar and Wuppertal.
In 2006 Erik Faulhaber designed Generis®. Generis is a system of four compatible typeface families, each variant drawn in a different generic style, perfectly suitable for almost any design application.
In 2009, Erik Faulhaber created Aeonis™, a classic-style sans serif typeface family with a clear, minimalistic design.
The Website of [...]
Ismet Chanbour created the fonts Al Harf Al Jadid™ (1980) and Mariam® (1992).
Al Harf Al Jadid is a traditional-style Arabic display typeface. Al Harf Al Jadid Two is an outline version of Al Harf Al Jadid One. Although their design is ultra bold, its forms remain a readable Naskh, in response to the needs of secular lettering for emphatic headlines and signs. Al Harf Al Jadid One and Two are characterized by a distinctive, strong baseline-stroke, reminiscent of a similar [...]
Ahmed™ is a modern Arabic headline face, first produced by Linotype-Hell Ltd. in the early 1980s.
Originally developed as a simplified face, its design recalls the inscriptional and decorative tile work lettering of the medieval period. The strong treatment of the tails of certain characters departs from the more traditional style of tapering these finials, introducing a modern feel to the design.
The contrasting proportions of the tall vertical strokes and the rather elongated counters [...]
Hermann Zapf is renowned the world over as a master calligrapher and type designer. Throughout his tremendous life, he has contributed volumes to the history of typography. His oeuvre encompasses text faces, symbol fonts, and even script designs, such as the new classic Zapfino. So many of his typefaces have entered our daily lives that it is impossible to image contemporary design without them. Below are all of his digital designs for Linotype.
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Aldus™
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Not your grandmother’ s medieval type ... meet the “American” Gothic fonts!
A breed of no-nonsense typefaces, called “Gothics” in the United States, have been serving as heavy hitters in financial services, business, and newspaper sectors since the late 19th Century. Gothic typefaces – not to be confused with Blackletter typefaces, which look “gothic” in a scary, medieval sort of way – are American sans serifs. Their forms are designed to solve [...]
Sans Serif Fonts
The first drawings from Jürgen Weltin to be used for digitizing Agilita™ began early in 2000.
About Linotype Originals ...
Well-known type foundries such as Mergenthaler, Linotype, D. Stempel AG, Haas'sche Schriftgießerei, Deberny & Peignot and others laid the foundations towards the Linotype Library becoming the most extensive collection of original fonts. The library contains world-famous classic fonts such as "Frutiger", "Garamond", "Helvetica", "Optima", "Palatino", "Sabon", "Syntax", "Univers" and "Zapfino", to name but a few. Linotype regards itself as a driving force for helping good font designs to success ¿ giving them the opportunity to become classics, even if they were not developed in-house. "Antique Olive" and "Eurostile" are prime examples of this policy.
The names of the most renowned type designers of the 20th and 21st century, e. g., Neville Brody, Matthew Carter, Adrian Frutiger, Hans-Eduard Meier, Gerard Unger and Prof. Hermann Zapf, represent the excellent quality of these typefaces. In addition, modern typefaces that provide a preview of tomorrow's trends offer you room for experimentation when you want to venture into new territories with unconventional designs. Like all Linotype Originals typefaces, they maintain the highest aesthetic and technical standards, backed by well over 100 years of premium typographical quality from Linotype.
AdPro, Aeonis, Al Harf Al Jadid and Ambigue are trademarks of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Aldus is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH. Agilita, Alcuin and Amer are trademarks of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
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