Present® Font Family

Present® Roman (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present® Bold (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present® Black (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present® Condensed (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present® Bold Condensed (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present® Black Condensed (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present® Central European Roman (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present® Central European Bold (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Present Central European Complete Family Pack (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 49.00

Present Complete Family Pack (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 125.00

Friedrich Karl Sallwey – born 16. 10. 1918 in Langen, Germany, died August 11, 2005 – graphic artist, type designer. 1937–39 and 1941–42: studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach. 1948: works at the Bauersche Gießerei as Heinrich Jost´s assistant. From 1951 onwards: freelance graphic artist in Frankfurt am Main. Fonts: Information (1955), Present® (1974), Sallwey Script™ (1979), Roundy™ (1992). * TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout [...]

Font Designer: Friedrich K. Sallwey, 1974/1990 Due to the huge popularity of Present® font, Linotype decided to build a complete family out of the font. Five additional weights have been designed together with Friedrich Karl Sallwey. Three condensed weights have been added, where only the lower case letters have been redesigned and condensed. The upper case letters are the same as in the regular weights. Present font is a perfect face for all greeting cards or for plaques and adds a [...]

This lively calligraphic font was designed by Friedrich K. Sallwey and appeared with Linotype in 1974. Present font is distinguished by the buoyant rhythm of its characters, with their flowing forms and stroke contrasts. This contrast lends the font a faint Asian character, which is perhaps what has made the font so popular in international advertisements, an accomplishment usually reserved for text fonts.