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What has happened recently at Linotype and the world of typography?

The Font News Archive contains all the font features we have published on our website in the past.

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New sans serif types from Berlin – ITC Chino and Klint

Info: The ITC Chino™ typeface family is a study in contrasts: twelve family members ranging from fanciful, script-like display designs, to typefaces with a decidedly judicious demeanor well-suited for text composition.

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Date: October 2009
 
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Ysobel: a new typeface family available in text and display versions

Info: Ysobel™ is a new serif typeface family, consisting of text and display versions, inspired by the Century and Century Schoolbook typefaces of the early twentieth century.

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Date: October 2009
 
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Revised, expanded, and with more OpenType features – Meet Neue Swift

Info: Lightning-fast swifts draw lines and exciting arcs in the air – an example for the designer’s hand and pencil.

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Date: September 2009
 
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Retooled with additional weights and improved spacing – Linotype’s Neue Frutiger®

Info: During planning for the new Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at the beginning of the 70s, it was decided that the airport’s signage system had to present a clear and legible script.

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Date: July 2009
 
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Clear forms, classic and simple – Erik Faulhaber’s Aeonis family

Info: After Generis, Aeonis™ is the second largest family of typefaces by Erik Faulhaber.

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Date: July 2009
 
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ITC Legacy Square Serif & ITC Legacy Serif Condensed

Info: The ITC Legacy™ Square Serif and ITC Legacy Serif Condensed designs make the ITC Legacy family a typographic tour de force. These two designs join the ITC Legacy Sans and ITC Legacy Serif suites of typefaces to create a remarkably handsome and versatile extended typeface family.

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Date: July 2009
 
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Meet the newest typeface from master designer Jovica Veljovic – Libelle

Info: Libelle™ is a 21st century English Copperplate Script typeface.

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Date: May 2009
 
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Luba – This informal sans helps introduce readers of the Latin script to Cyrillic

Info: Luba™ is a multi-script text family designed by Hendrik Moeller.

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Date: May 2009
 
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Linotype Nautilus expands into two new families: Nautilus Text and Nautilus Monoline

Info: Hellmut G. Bomm first released his Linotype Nautilus™ typeface in 1999.

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Date: May 2009
 
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A new family with sturdy serifs – Try part of Malabar for free

Info: A new type family for extensive text, Malabar likely is the first typeface in the Linotype library named after a brew of coffee.

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Date: April 2009
 
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Introducing a new mid-century style script – Virtuosa Classic

Info: Hermann Zapf has created dozens of typefaces over the course of his decades-long career. One of the very first was Virtuosa. Virtuosa is an English copperplate script with character.

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Date: April 2009
 
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Reinventing a quirky 1920s serif stencil face – Iwan Stencil

Info: Iwan Stencil™ is a new revival of an old display typeface. Based on type originally designed by Jan Tschichold in 1929, the style was revived by Klaus Sutter in 2008.

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Date: April 2009
 
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Diotima Classic – Gudrun Zapf von Hesse recreates a post-war favorite

Info: In 2008–2009, Akira Kobayashi worked with Gudrun Zapf von Hesse to revive and reinterpret Diotima®, one of the most beautiful types ever cast in metal. Their result is Diotima Classic.

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Date: March 2009
 
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Two new Linotype families: Opal and Snoogle

Info: The following pages illustrate two great new Linotype families: Opal™ and Snoogle™.

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Date: February 2009
 
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Two new fonts from Patricia Roesch-Pothin – Tendria and Saussa

Info: Patricia Roesch-Pothin is a young French designer. In February 2009, Linotype released a double pack of her vibrant, calligraphically inspired typefaces: Tendria™ and Saussa™

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Date: February 2009
 
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A solid, stylish slab serif design: the new Egyptian Slate from Rod McDonald

Info: Just as the camera adds weight to human faces, serifs can add weight to typographic faces. Rod McDonald trimmed and adjusted his new Egyptian Slate™ design as it emerged from its sans serif predecessor, the Slate™ design.

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Date: January 2009
 
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Fresh type from Serbia – The ITC Nova Lineta family

Info: Highly legible and very lively: it’s the ITC Nova Lineta™ design.

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Date: January 2009
 
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Inspired by the handwriting of Pope John Paul II: JP2

Info: Francizek Otto began the project that led to the JP2™ typeface after being inspired by an autographed and blessed photograph of Pope John Paul II.

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Date: January 2009
 
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Eurostile Next extras – Akira Kobayashi’s Eurostile Candy & Eurostile Unicase

Info: Released in early 2008, Eurostile® Next is one of the newest members of Linotype’s Platinum Collection. This family represents a thorough digital rethinking and extension of the typeface.

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Date: December 2008
 
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Renner Antiqua – Reviving a serif typeface from the designer of Futura

Info: Linotype’s Renner Antiqua™ is a revival by Patrick Strietzel of an earlier typeface issued by D. Stempel AG in metal. The original Renner Antiqua was designed by Paul Renner (1878–1956).

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Date: November 2008
 
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Giacometti Letter and Giacometti Pi – Update of an old favorite

Info: Together, Giacometti™ Letter and Giacometti Pi make up a stunning comic-style font family.

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Date: November 2008
 
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Harmony between east and west: the new Tanseek typeface family

Info: The new Tanseek™ typeface family achieves this beautifully – typographically speaking. The Tanseek family system is one the first to provide a balanced relationship between the Arabic and Latin alphabets, thereby creating uniform typographic color on a page using both alphabets.

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Date: October 2008
 
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New Arabic Typefaces for Multilingual Communication Today

Info: Nadine Chahine, the designer of Frutiger® Arabic and TDC2 award winning Palatino® Arabic, has finally released her own independent designs: Koufiya™, Badiya™, and Janna™.

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Date: August 2008
 
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The Juicy and Satisfying Quench

Info: Quench™ is a fun and unique typeface from designer Hannes von Döhren. It is unmistakably characterized by its strong contrast of inside and outside forms.

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Date: July 2008
 
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More New Foundries – Our library is always growing

Info: Take a look at our newly added foundries and font collections and all the fresh typefaces inside!

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Date: July 2008
 
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Versatile, extensive, customizable, & multi-lingual – Soho Gothic has it all

Info: The Soho™ Gothic suite of typefaces is the latest chapter in the Soho design project.

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Date: June 2008
 
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Adrian Frutiger’s newest typeface: Frutiger Serif

Info: It isn’t every day that one of the world’s most popular sans serif typeface families receives a new serif companion. When this happens, it is certainly reason to celebrate.

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Date: May 2008
 
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Corrected, expanded, improved – Eurostile Next

Info: Eurostile has been with us for decades. Its heritage is a bit obscure. Born in Italy, Eurostile had two designers, and two release dates, even if purists might insist that it really just had one of each.

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Date: April 2008
 
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Now including sans serifs – Berling Nova grows even more useful

Info: Berling™ Nova is a nordic workhorse text face, with six typefaces spread over four weights and two optical sizes.

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Date: March 2008
 
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Created for legibility – Satero Sans and Satero Serif

Info: Created for extreme legibility, Satero® is a new type system with serif and sans serif variants!

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Date: February 2008
 
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Frutiger Arabic

Info: Popular throughout the world for over 30 years, the Frutiger® typeface now has companion Arabic fonts.

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Date: February 2008
 
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Two Linotype Thai designs released in OpenType: Sirichana and Sukothai

Info: Linotype is proud to announce the rerelease of two classic Thai typefaces: Sukothai® and Sirichana®. As fully functioning OpenType fonts, these designs are now ready for contemporary use.

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Date: February 2008
 
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Circus posters or the Wild West – Madame and its features do layering for you

Info: Madame is based on 19th Century French woodtype display faces, specifically on an 1820 example from the Founderie Typographique Française.

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Date: December 2007
 
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21st century script – Introducing Hamada

Info: Linotype’s Hamada™ typeface is a powerfully built script design bringing the work of English calligrapher Gaynor Goffe into the digital workflow.

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Date: November 2007
 
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Nami

Info: Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi – together again, with Nami®

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Date: April 2007
 
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Agilita™

Info: A multilingual OpenType font family in 32 type styles.

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Date: January 2007
 
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Pirouette

Info: The award-winning Pirouette™ is now available with contextual features.

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Date: December 2006
 
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Sunetta

Info: Three complementary styles – Sunetta™ Flair, Sunetta Charme, and Sunetta Magic – work together to build up varying degrees of calligraphic for the user and their designs.

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Date: November 2006
 
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Monotype Imaging acquires Linotype

Info: Monotype Imaging and Linotype are joining forces to pursue a common vision – to help customers improve global communication through type.

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Date: August 2006
 
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Aptifer™ Sans and Aptifer Slab

Info: Two highly legible typeface families, usable both in print and on screen.

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Date: July 2006
 
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Zapfino Extra

Info: Zapfino® Extra Pro, the contextual version of Zapfino, automatically provides individual and varied results!

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Date: Dezember 2004
 
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ITDC 2003 Winner Fonts

Info: The winning fonts of Linotype’s International Type Design Contest 2003.

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Date: August 2004
 
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Avenir Next

Info: Completely reworked Avenir® typeface family, newly designed in regular, regular italic, condensed and condensed italic, each containing 6 weights from Ultralight to Heavy. Avenir Next offers an optimal balance of harmony and contrast.

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Date: April 2004
 
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Neue Helvetica Pro

Info: All 51 Neue Helvetica® Pro fonts on one CD for Mac and PC in OpenType CFF format, suitable for all platforms.

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Date: March 2004
 
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Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection

Info: Largest compilation of typefaces from the designers Gudrun and Hermann Zapf with 143 high quality typefaces.

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Date: May 2003
 
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Vialog

Info: Vialog® remains an aesthetic and legible typeface, due to its detail and quality.
Designed especially for signage systems, traffic, transportation and communication by Werner Schneider.

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Date: December 2002
 
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Zapf Essentials®

Info: The modernized version of Zapf Dingbats®, designed by Hermann Zapf himself. Over 372 characters and symbols to make life a little bit more communicative, a little more informative, and a lot more interesting ...

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Date: July 2002
 
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Linotype Compatil®

Info: The first comprehensive font system: With this typeface system, there are no limits to the font user´s creativity.

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Date: June 2001
 
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Frutiger Next

Info: The new Linotype Frutiger™ Next is a font which lends clarity and legibility to the presentation of information.

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Date: May 2001
 
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Linotype Finnegan

Info: The new Linotype Finnegan® from designer Jürgen Weltin with its exciting contours is extremely effective as a font for legible longer texts.

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Date: March 2000
 
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A Classic Celebrates its Renaissance: The New Linotype Syntax™

Info: The New Linotype Syntax® has been reworked by Linotype and designer Hans Eduard Meier.

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Date: December 1999

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