Font Feature Archive

May 2013

Rediscover a classic font: ITC Benguiat

The extravagant launch of ITC Benguiat in issue 4-4 of U&lc proved to be an accurate predictor of its future.
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May 2013

Exciting new typefaces published by various foundries

We have put together a selection of what we consider to be the most remarkable and interesting typefaces published by a range of different foundries in the recent past.
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April 2013

Nine exceptional fonts from different foundries

Sometimes it is possible to recognise a typeface at a single glance. These include those whose overall concept is so unique that it difficult to forget them.
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March 2013

Moviefonts 2013: Lernen Sie die Schriften auf den Plakaten der Oscar-Sieger kennen

Gehören Sie auch zu den Menschen, die sich nicht nur an ausgezeichneten Filmen, sondern auch an der Typografie auf den Plakaten erfreuen können?
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February 2013

The Aviano hyperfamily by Jeremy Dooley: variations on the theme of Copperplate Gothic suitable for use in innumerable applications

In the early years of the 20th century, Frederic W. Goudy designed a quite remarkable Grotesque typeface for American Type Founders in Jersey City.
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February 2013

Ability and Always: two highly individual calligraphic typefaces designed by Anton Scholz

Within its collection of more than 100 typefaces, Scholz Fonts offers abundant unusual calligraphic forms, two of which we describe in more detail in the following.
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January 2013

The most popular releases of 2012

On your behalf, we have looked into which new fonts proved most popular in 2012.
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January 2013

Bookmania: Ein Revival der Bookman Oldstyle

Bookmania is how Mark Simonson calls his revival of the familiar Bookman Oldstyle.
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November 2012

Linotype Freytag: one of the best Bauhaus-style typefaces currently on the market

New italic styles have extended the range of uses of Arne Freytag’s Linotype Freytag.
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October 2012

A classic antiqua in modern dress: Capitolium 2 and Capitolium News 2 by Gerard Unger

An update has not only extended the glyph range of the classic antiqua font Capitolium by Gerard Unger but has also improved its typesetting qualities thanks to adaptation and augmentation.
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September 2012

Parfumerie Script by Sabrina Lopez: an original calligraphic font with a sensational range of characters

Parfumerie Script by Sabrina Lopez published by the Typesenses foundry is a new calligraphic font that is truly original.
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July 2012

Museo: an extensive contemporary, topical and fashionable font family

The extensive font family Museo by Jos Buivenga now comprises four different styles.
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May 2012

Abril Text and Abril Display: the perfect team for editorial uses

Designed specifically for text and display applications, Abril by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione provides everything needed to overcome the challenges inherent in editorial design.
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April 2012

Oscar-winning movie fonts 2012: which fonts appear on film posters?

The Academy Awards for 2012 have already been presented. But the spotlight is not only on the winning films, actors and technicians, but also on the film posters and typographic film title designs.
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February 2012

The most popular releases of 2011

What are the current trends in font design? Perhaps some especially successful recent releases can indicate where the journey is taking us.
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November 2011

Adelle: an individual, readily legible slab serif

Adelle
The multipurpose slab serif Adelle of the Typetogether foundry is at its best when used to set newspaper and magazine text.
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August 2011

An interview with Anders Francker

The Danish engineer and typeface designer Anders Francker developed an interest in fonts and numerals while still a child and had always had the ambition to create his own typeface.
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May 2011

An interview with Gerard Unger

The Dutch font designer Gerard Unger has already created many well-known typefaces, including Demos®, Praxis®, and Neue Swift, to name but a few.
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June 2011

Rock am Ring 2011 – the fonts behind the music

We investigate the fonts behind the music and ID the types used on the CD jackets of the event’s headliners.
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May 2011

trytype2

This collection of works was produced by students attending the “Art and Clients – trytype2 cooperation project with Linotype” seminar held during the 2010/2011 winter semester at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden.
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February 2011

Linotype’s most popular faces of 2010

Which of our newly launched fonts were most successful in 2010? We’ve conducted a survey to find out – and here are the results!
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January 2011

Award-winning business reports 2009 written with fonts from our range

For the 15th time, Manager Magazine looked at the business reports produced by leading public corporations in Germany and Europe.
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June 2010

DIN Next & Neo Sans now available with support for Greek and Cyrillic

DIN Next hardly needs any introduction. From its roots as a typeface for signage and wayfinding, it has grown into one of the world’s most popular sans serifs, used in just about every application imaginable.
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June 2010

Experimental Typography

We already know how graphic design students work with type. But what happens when art students tackle the subject?
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May 2010

Linex Sans & Sweet now available in OpenType Pro

Boton began his professional career as a carpenter. Fortunately for us, he laid his hammer to rest, and set about creating beautiful letterforms.
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April 2010

International typography gets a Cyrillic boost

We’re very proud to announce that six popular Linotype originals are expanded to include support for Cyrillic.
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March 2010

Hidden Gems: Our editorial team unearths some typographic treasures

We’ve been busy digging into out vast library of typefaces, and have unearthed a treasure trove.
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February 2010

Dig deeper into our vaults – Have you seen these six “Hidden Gems” from Monotype and ITC?

Below are six Hidden Gems from the Monotype and ITC libraries. Each family offers different solutions for the graphic designer’s toolkit.
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January 2010

Two additional script fonts – Sarah Script and WTF Portfolio from Wilton Foundry

Sarah Script is our favorite Borges Lettering typeface.
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November 2009

Linotype’s 10 most-popular typeface releases of 2009

Now that 2009 is over, have a look back at our most-popular typeface releases of the year.
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October 2009

Holiday Savings

Holiday savings made to measure! At Linotype.com, you’re guaranteed to find the Christmas fonts you need.
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September 2009

Hidden Gems

Here is a selection of hidden font gems. You might know some of these designs already … but do you know them all?
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September 2009

Newspaper Fonts

Browse through our selection of quality type designs for newspaper design. Find you inspiration in our collection!
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August 2009

New Soft Rounded Fonts and Value Packs

Search our website with the keyword ‘soft rounded’ to find all font families that include soft rounded fonts.
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August 2009

Fonts for Global Communication

The right fonts for the three official alphabets of the European Union. With the entrance of Bulgaria in January 2007, the Cyrillic script joined the Latin and Greek alphabets to become the Union’s third official alphabet.
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June 2009

ITC Migration Sans – a type family with a good measure of design sensibility

Through his hands-on experience choosing fonts as a graphic designer, type newcomer André Simard developed a type family with a good measure of design sensibility.
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May 2009

From 16th century pens to 21st century keyboards – Introducing Neudoerffer Fraktur

Johann Neudörffer the Elder’s 1538 writing manual fascinated the German designer Hellmut G. Bomm for years.
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May 2009

Mind the Gap? No gaps in OpenType support for ITC Johnston!

The ITC Johnston™ typeface has the best typographic qualities of a geometric sans serif married to humanist letter shapes and proportions.
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April 2009

Pan-European – Whichever languages you need to set, Really No 2 is there for you

Really™ No 2 is a new serif typeface for Europeans, designed by an American.
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March 2009

Home Run Script and Young Finesse: Two new font families from Doyald Young

Doyald Young is an experienced lettering designer, typographer and teacher of all matters typographic.
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February 2009

Meet the newest, grumpiest display face from ITC – ITC Bolthole™

“I fell in love at the age of twelve in Wales,” recalls Bernard Philpot. “My father brought me to a small graveyard in the Welsh hills to show me two headstones carved by the great Eric Gill.
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January 2009

A new family with many sides – Meet Azbuka

A typeface by any other name? The Azbuka™ typeface design owes its name to the Russian word for alphabet.
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December 2008

Best-Selling Fonts of 2008

Customers from all over the world come to Linotype.com every day to purchase the fonts they need for business and for fun.
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December 2008

An old classic, now available as an unbeatable display family – ITC Franklin

The ITC Franklin™ typeface design marks the next phase in the evolution of one of the most important American gothic typefaces.
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November 2008

Johnstemp – A stamp font family based on Linotype Tagesstempel

Years ago, one of our Germany typeface designers created a symbol font family called Linotype Tagesstempel™.
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October 2008

70 years of designing type! Two very abridged biographies

Both born in 1918 in Germany, the Zapfs are one of the most productive working couples in design.
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October 2008

The Art of Hermann Zapf – A video of him working!

Back in the 1960’s and 70’s Hermann did several exclusive typefaces for Hallmark Cards. As a side project, Hallmark commissioned a video of Hermann explaining the basics of calligraphy and how he worked.
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October 2008

Looking back at his career – a special statement from Hermann Zapf himself!

For the occasion of his 90th Birthday, Hermann Zapf has written a statement he wanted to share with you! Here he takes a look back at how he began with type design and his amazing 70 year relationship with Linotype.
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October 2008

Halloween Fonts

Scare up some Halloween spirits with these spooky styled fonts! No matter if you are throwing a costume party, advertising for a haunted house, or just trying create a ghoulish atmosphere, these fonts are guaranteed to be just what you need!
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September 2008

Neo Sans and Neo Tech

The fab English designer Sebastian Lester created the Neo Sans and Neo Tech typeface families for Monotype Imaging in 2004.
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September 2008

Two ways to celebrate the Zapf’s 90th birthdays with us!

Remember the first time you saw Optima, Diotima, or Zapfino? Which famed design do you like best or use the most?
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August 2008

Exotic, Chinese-Styled Fonts

Here, we have collected together our most popular Chinese-styled typefaces. These designs all have the impression of brushed letters and will work for a wide range of products and clients looking for typography with a bit of Asian vitality.
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June 2008

Beach Party Fonts

No sand required to enjoy this collection of Beach Party-themed fonts. These designs conjure up images ranging from 1960s surfers to tiki huts to DJs playing techno music in a sandpit.
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June 2008

Linotype Syntax Serif – A ‘New Classic’ as bonus font

As the name implies, Linotype Syntax™ Serif is an addition to Hans Eduard Meier’s famous Syntax type family.
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June 2008

Tips – Icons and pictograms for the occasion

Summer is here, and this means time for sports! ! The European Soccer Championships and baseball are in full swing, and the Olympics in Beijing are coming up in a few weeks.
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May 2008

Dear Adrian Frutiger – Send a personalized birthday message

Help celebrate Adrian Frutiger’s 80th birthday!
Born in 1928 near Interlaken, Switzerland, Adrian Frutiger is one of the predominant figures in twentieth century European design.
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May 2008

Photo Gallery: Adrian Frutiger and Linotype

Adrian Frutiger has spent decades working very closely with Linotype. In the many years of this fruitful collaboration, we’ve accumulated a number of photographs of Adrian Frutiger.
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April 2008

The original squared sans, redrawn – Bank Gothic and Morris Sans

Bank Gothic was a typeface released in 1930 by the American Type Founders (ATF). Morris Fuller Benton, ATF’s chief designer, created the family. atf Bank Gothic was a family of five types: Light, Medium, Bold, Condensed Light, and Condensed Medium.
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March 2008

Generis: Value Packs and a Bonus Font

Like the very popular Compatil®, Linotype’s Generis® Type System is a matrix of four typeface families. Generis Serif, Generis Sans, Generis Simple, and Generis Slab’s weights are quadraplexed across each type stye.
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March 2008

The Thin Girls from Linotype

What are the thinnest hairline fonts available at Linotype.com, and what do they look like? We created an article in the Linotype Matrix to help show you!
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January 2008

Extended Monotype Families

The Linotype webshop includes several extended OpenType families ready to set volumes of texts. Many of them were created by Monotype Design Studio.
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December 2007

Just like the 1950s – Types inspired by sign painting

In the old days, before it was easy for designers and shop owners to quickly generate signs and price displays with the help of computers, printers, and plotters, many shop signs were hand-painted by sign writers.
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November 2007

New Christmas Fonts

Christmas comes but once a year – over a dozen holiday fonts added to our webshop.
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November 2007

Famous Linotype fonts from the last decade

Now is a great time to get reacquainted with the best Linotype faces from the last 10 years; reaquaint is certainly the best word, as you’ve already gotten to know these designs in your visual enviroment for some time.
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November 2007

Award-winning annual reports 2006 use the Compatil Type System

Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world.
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Juli 2007

Morris Fuller Benton

Get to know Morris Fuller Benton’s work, and some of the designers he inspired.
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July 2007

Slab Serif Fonts

Many typeface catalogs, including our own, group all serif typefaces together under one umbrella-category. But in truth, there are many different kinds of serifs, e.g., Renaissance serifs, baroque serifs, unbracketed modern serifs, Latin serifs, wedge serifs, etc.
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May 2007

Just what makes a “Garamond” a Garamond?

Claude Garamond cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495.
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May 2007

Geometric Fonts

Geometric types – more than just the sum of their parts.
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March 2007

Soho

A new industrial-strength corporate typeface family.
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March 2007

Linotype’s Easter Fonts

Spring and time for celebration – take a look at our Easter font selection.
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February 2006

The Life and Work of William Addison Dwiggins
by Paul Shaw

William Addison Dwiggins was the first great type designer to work for the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. in New York.
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January 2007

Award-winning annual reports 2005 use the Compatil Type System

Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world.
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December 2006

Linotype’s X-Mas Fonts

Still searching for the perfect font or ornament for this year’s Christmas cards or holiday party invitations? Allow us to come to the rescue! Before you give up hope, make sure to visit our new X-Mas Font Feature page.
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November 2006

Linotype Office Alliance

The Linotype Office Alliance collection not only guarantees data clarity, but its fonts lend a bit of personalization to cubicle life as well.
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July 2006

Fat Faces

The need for bold type related to what might be described as the growth of non-linearity in graphic design, which reflected new ways of thinking about the design of texts.
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May 2006

Football Jersey Fonts

Football is in the air! Like all great team sports, football (or soccer, if you are in the US) inspires its fans to identify with their favorite team’s players, and sometimes even with a specific city or country.
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April 2006

Meet the “American” Gothic fonts

These no-nonsense typefaces, called “Gothics” in the United States, have been serving as heavy hitters in financial services, business, and newspaper sectors since the late 19th Century.
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June 2005

About Linotype Mano
by Marco Ganz

Linotype Mano is not only nimble and quick, it also retains its legibility as a text font.
It is as dynamic, brisk and casual as contemporary pop music.
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April 2005

About Linotype Veto
by Marco Ganz

Dynamic, functional, and unencumbered by the past, Linotype Veto has no frills but everything that makes a font suitable for modern use.
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November 2004

Type – Adapted to Everyday Life
by Klaus-Peter Nicolay

Typography as the highest form of visual communication. A talk with Adrian Frutiger.
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July 2004

The History of Linear, Sans Serif Types

Famous font designer Adrian Frutiger is the author of this exciting essay about history and development of linear, sans serif types.
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January 2004

Old English Fonts

A short overview about the meaning of “Old English Fonts”.
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March 2003

Phil Baines: Waiting for OpenType

OpenType has been around for five years now and is widely used for rendering complex scripts like Arabic, but also offers rich typographic controls to Latin script designers.
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November 2002

Dadaism

The Dada movement: beginning, development and present importance.
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April 2002

In honor of the 100th birthday of Jan Tschichold

The biography of Jan Tschichold, one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century.
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February 2002

The Sans Serif Typefaces

In indepth look at the typeface style that defined the 20th century.
For this feature, a German version is available.
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November 2001

Typography in the Art Nouveau Period

Everything there is to know about this remarkable style of art and typography.
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September 2001

Arabic Fonts in the Linotype Library

A look at the Arabic Fonts in the Linotype Library: Special features and requirements; detailed descriptions of the various Arabic typefaces.
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May 2001

The Constructivists

Take a look at the typefaces of the Roaring ’20s.
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June 2000

Adrian Frutiger – Traces

This Linotype feature is truly exceptional, a look at the most important developments in the private and professional life of Adrian Frutiger.
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November 1999

A look into the world of calligraphy with Gottfried Pott

Linotype presents a look at the intricate art of calligraphy, written by the internationally known expert, Gottfried Pott.
For this feature, a German version is available.
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August 1999

The lifestory of Hermann Zapf

Written by the typographer himself exclusively for Linotype.
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May 1998

Linotype Univers

A Linotype feature about one of the most innovative type creations of the modern age.
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