With this Typeface, Curling Up with a Good Book is Lots of Fun
The creation of a new sanserif, monoline font as a text face – this was the starting point for Linotype Finnegan®. Easy and comfortable legibility in large-scale text setting was the foremost concern. Usually, sanserifs are not optimal for reading longer texts because their neutrality and functionality lead quickly to fatigue and disinterest in the reader. This was the exciting challenge for designer Jürgen Weltin: to create a [...]
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 [...]
Font Designer: Jürgen Weltin, 1997
German designer Jürgen Weltin designed Finnegan®, a modern text design with roots in the humanist letterforms of the Renaissance. As the recognizable direction of movement in writing runs from upper left to lower right, Weltin mimicked this in his design: Finnegan's up and down strokes end in residual serifs. All of the thick strokes have a taper; horizontal strokes and curves are noticeably thinner than the verticals. This dynamic nature lends a [...]
German designer Jürgen Weltin designed Linotype Finnegan, a modern text design with roots in the humanist letterforms of the Renaissance. As the recognizable direction of movement in writing runs from upper left to lower right, Weltin mimicked this in his design: Linotype Finnegan's up and down strokes end in residual serifs. All of the thick strokes have a taper; horizontal strokes and curves are noticeably thinner than the verticals. This dynamic nature lends a combination of individualness and energy, along with a high degree of variety, to Linotype Finnegan.
Linotype Finnegan is a wholly new and unique typeface. It distinguishes itself through its extreme legibility, originality, and formal excellence. Linotype Finnegan makes fun to read longer texts non-stop. However, the typeface never distracts the attention from the text's content by forcing itself too much into the foreground.
Finnegan is a trademark of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
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