Introduction
Many typeface catalogs, including our own, group all serif typefaces together under one umbrella-category. But in truth, there are many different kinds of serifs, e.g., Renaissance serifs, baroque serifs, unbracketed modern serifs, Latin serifs, wedge serifs, etc. One of the most popular styles of seriffed letter, especially for display type, remains the slab serif.
The slab serif is a genre of letterforms that has been in use for almost 200 years. Throughout this time, many
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Colin Brignall – born 1940 in Warwickshire, England – photographer, type designer, art director. Started work as photographer for the fashion trade, the press and industry.
1964: joins the Letraset Type Studio as photographic technician. Since 1974: type designer for Letraset International. Since 1980: type director for Esselte Letraset in London.
Fonts: Countdown™ (1965), Aachen™ (1969), Premier™ Lightline (1969), Revue™ (1969), Premier™ shaded (1970), Superstar™ (1970), Octopuss™
[...]Designer Alan Meeks (born 1951 in London) created the following fonts: Ambrose™, Aachen medium and bold (with Colin Brignall, 1969/1977), Algerian™ Condensed (1988), Astoria, Belwe™ Mono (1976/1989), Bertie™ (1985), Bickley™ Script (1986), Bramley™ (1979), Brigade, Burlington™ (1985), Cabaret™ (1980), Campaign™ (1987), Cancellaresca™ Script (1982), Candice™ (1976), Chalfont, Champers™ (1991), Chesterfield™ (1977), Claude™ Sans (1988/1990), Copacabana, Dynamo (with
[...]The Argentine designer Luis Siquot (born 1945) created the fonts ITC Abaton™ (1997), ITC Arecibo™ (2004), ITC Cali™ (2004), ITC Florinda™ (1997), ITC Juanita™ (1996), and ITC Portago™ (1997).
These Font Families are part of the ITC Library OpenType Edition.
Designer Vince Whitlock created the following fonts: Academy Engraved™ (1989), Crillee™ (with Peter O’Donnell, 1986/1987), Equinox™ (1988), Gillies Gothic extra bold shaded (with Philip Kelly, 1982), Lexikos™ (1990), Quixley™ (1991), Retail Script™ (1987), Strobos™ (1990), Tropica Script™ (1988).
American designer George Ryan (born 1950 in Rockville Centre, NY) created the fonts ITC Adderville™, ITC Eborg™, ITC Kristen™ (1995) and ITC Migrate™.
These Font Families are part of the ITC Library OpenType Edition.
American designer Bob Alonso created the fonts ITC Aftershock™ (1996), ITC Outback™ (1997), ITC Serengetti™ (1996), ITC Ziggy™ (1997) and ITC Zipty Do™.
Hannes von Döhren was born in Berlin/Germany in 1979. After completing his studies (graphic design) in 2005, he worked in an advertising agency in Hamburg/Germany. Since 2007 he has been working as a freelancing graphic designer in Berlin, which allows him to spend some of his time developing fonts as well.
Linotype released Quench® in 2008, the first of Hannes von Döhren’s typefaces in the Linotype library. In 2009, he added Opal™ and Snoogle™ (Snoogle was designed in
[...]Designer Michael Gills (born 1962 in London) created the following fonts: Charlotte™ (1992), Elysium™ (1992), Figural™ (1992), Fling™ (1995), ITC Forkbeard™ (1998), Frances Uncial (1995), Gilgamesh™ (1994), Hand Drawn™ (1993), Isis (1990), Katfish™ (1994), Prague™ (1991), Type Embellishments One (with Colin Brignall, 1993).
These fonts are included in the Linotype Library.
Initial concepts for comprehensive type systems surfaced as early as the 1930s, yet they remained the exception. In the days of hot-metal typesetting, handbooks generally recommended creating typeface mixtures from a single type family, a family being understood as including all of a typeface’s weights, such as light, normal, semi-bold, and bold, and including all of the italic weights as well. A well-rounded type family also includes small caps, tabular and old-style figures. These days, the
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Academy, Adderville, Charlotte Sans, ITC Abaton, ITC Aftershock, ITC Bodoni, ITC Chino, ITC Deli Deluxe, ITC Humana and ITC Magnifico Daytime are trademarks of International Typeface Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
ITC Officina, Legacy, Stone and Tempus are trademarks of International Typeface Corporation registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and which may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
