Fonts of Gerard Unger in the Linotype Library

The high-quality fonts of renowned Dutch designer Gerard Unger offer versatile application in typography today.
More about the fonts:

Demos™
Gerard Unger designed Demos for the German technology corporation Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell* in 1976. Originally intended for use in the typesetting of newspapers, Demos was one of the new digital generation’s first typefaces, well suited for book printing as well. Its robust forms and rounded corners make this face particularly legible and flexible, it ensures the good appearance of both words and lines, requires minimal line spacing, and saves page space. In short, Demos fulfils all the requirements of a good text typeface. Demos could be considered the serif partner for Praxis.
In the late 1990s, Demos, along with Gerard Unger’s Praxis, was selected as one of the official typefaces of the German Government.

Praxis™
Praxis was designed for the German technology corporation Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell in 1977. Praxis combines well with the sans serif font Demos. Like Demos, Praxis is a flexible and legible typeface that works well in small point sizes and on low-quality paper (i.e., office documents, newsletters, newspapers, etc.). It requires only minimal line spacing, and is therefore the perfect face for printing longer texts in smaller spaces.

ITC Flora®
ITC Flora has its beginnings in hand lettering exercises with a felt tip pen. The exercises were revived in 1978, when the Rudolph Hell Company asked Gerard Unger to create a new round-nibbed script type. Starting with his felt tip sketches, Unger also reviewed an obscure type of German teacher and type designer F.H. Schneidler. ITC Flora is the result, a typeface of simplicity and strength whose almost upright cursive style is particularly well-suited to smaller text passages and for a change of pace in headlines.

Hollander™
The Hollander typeface was introduced by the Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH in 1986.The name of this font stems from the font’s similarity to the Dutch styles of van Dijk and Voskens, two Dutch type designer from the 17th century. Hollander makes a robust impression and maintains its quality even on inferior-quality paper. When used as a display face, Hollander is an excellent companion to one of Unger’s most successful text faces, Swift.

Swift™
Gerard Unger developed Swift as a new, digital-era typeface for newspapers between 1984 and 1987. The project was undertaken for the Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH. Unger’s major design influence for Swift came from William A. Dwiggins’ work (1880-1956). Dwiggins was a typographic consultant of Mergenthaler Linotype in the United States, who as early as 1930 was working on more legible, alternative fonts for newspaper printing. Austere and concise, firm and original, Swift is a typeface suited to almost any purpose.

*In 1990, Linotype AG merged with Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH, forming the Linotype-Hell AG (today Linotype GmbH). Since then, Linotype has been the official source of all fonts that were originally designed for the Hell Corporation. Linotype has also improved the typefaces using new technologies, including OpenType.