Finnegan® Linotype Complete Family Value Pack

The goal was to develop a sanserif with the legibility of the best serifed typefaces. Therefore, Finnegan™ developed out of the internal structure of a humanist renaissance roman. However, the attempt to create a uniform stroke weight was abandoned in favor of a differentiated thick and thin contrast. The design was carried out almost entirely onscreen with the help of Ikarus M. This process required enormous amounts of time, but offered a decisive advantage: with the help of print-outs, every [...]

... achieving this goal was essential to the design. And this is how it was done: all of the typeface’s thick strokes have a taper. In every figure, the principal of form and counterform stands out; this is recognizable in the direction of movement, based in writing, from upper left to lower right. The up and down strokes end in residual serifs, underlining the principle of form and counterform. This dynamic design lends combinations of individual figures much energy and a high degree of [...]

On a lonely mountain in the Scottish highlands, the idea came to Jürgen Weltin to name his new typeface Finnegan™. In Fall 1995, there were three complete character sets in the weights Regular, Italic, and Bold (Bold would later become Semibold). He presented these results as his final project at the Technical College in Würzburg. In close collaboration with Linotype Library, Finnegan™ was altered further to make it more usable. The typeface was expanded into a family with several different [...]

Designer: Jürgen Weltin, 1997

Finnegan® Linotype Complete Family Value Pack belongs to the Finnegan® Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.

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