LinoLetter 2006/11

The holiday season is just around the corner, and Linotype is ready to compete with old St. Nick in the gift-giving department. Until December 31st, all customers who purchase one of Linotype’s four OpenType Collections will receive a free gift. Customers who purchase complete bundle (all four Collections together) will get a free Mac mini! Get your Christmas shopping and your studio’s font buying done at the same time! Whether you use the gift for yourself or to give to someone special, licensing a font collection has never been sweeter.

The brush sings, the ink dances! After decades of working as a designer and calligrapher, all the while educating future generations of students, Werner Schneider retired to his studio to engage in scholarly exercises. Between meditation and contemplation, he painted out the forms for the Sunetta typefaces. Three complementary styles – Sunetta Flair, Sunetta Charme, and Sunetta Magic – work together to build up varying degrees of calligraphy for the user and their designs. The family’s base font, Sunetta Flair, harkens back to the showcard lettering styles of the 1950s, while remaining distinctly European in taste. Sunetta Charme has a more swash-type appearance, while Sunetta Magic is joyfully decorative.

Every year, more and more text is read directly on a computer screen in office applications or on freshly printed sheets from a copier or laser printer. Clear, legible text faces are more imperative to office communication than ever before. Yet most office environments are only equipped with a few basic fonts optimized for both laser printers and computer monitors. Noticing this, Linotype felt the need to come to the rescue of everyday corporate workers! Our new Office Alliance collection not only guarantees data clarity, but its fonts lend a bit of personalization to cubicle life as well. The Linotype Office Alliance is a collection of four typeface families. Each of these families has four font variants: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. These four variants’ character sets share the same character widths, and when a bit of text inside a document has its style changed, no resulting changes to line wrap will occur!

Still looking for the perfect gift for your beloved type-lover? Type-Tech.de offers a smorgasbord of handmade typographic pieces. Adorn your home or office with an old type-furniture collage, or select a tiny treasure chest to place underneath your Christmas tree or on a client’s desk.

Xmas Font offers glyphs such as Santa Claus riding on a vespa – complete with iPod – and signals that the Fun Generation has arrived.

Five fabulous fonts are sure to set the mood for cheer and gift giving, and include an exquisite symbol font along with four other typefaces.

Looking for some typographic inspiration? Our Type Gallery groups Linotype fonts into sample real-life categories, such as Art & Culture, Literature, or Posters.