The German designer Herbert Maring (born July 12, 1923 in Heilbronn) created the font Clairvaux™ in 1991. Herbert Maring developed his Clairvaux™ based on early Gothic typefaces. Its clever design resulted in highly stylized yet legible characters.
Clairvaux™ contains one weight, Clairvaux ™regular/Clairvaux™ DFR.*
DFR layouts (Deutsche Fraktur) include historic ligatures and a long s. They are provided free of charge with many black and broken letter faces from the Linotype Library.
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Clairvaux is a part of the 1990 program "Type before Gutenberg", which included the work of twelve contemporary font designers and represented styles from across the ages. Linotype offers a package including all these fonts on its web page, www.fonts.de. Herbert Maring developed his Clairvaux based on early Gothic typefaces. Its clever design resulted in highly stylized yet legible characters.
Clairvaux is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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The Platinum Collection is the exclusive series of optimized classic typefaces from the Linotype Library.
XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
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