LinoLetter 2007/07

The diversity of the slab serif, and one free font!

! Welcome to the Current Issue of the LinoLetter !

Introduction:

This month’s LinoLetter represents a voyage through various typographical styles and historical periods. We begin by introducing our readers to slab serif typefaces, which first came to prominence in Britain two centuries ago. A more recent slab serif typeface, Diverda™ Serif, is also the subject of a special promotion through August 15th! The next typeface on the list, our new Cosmiqua™, blends styles and trends from several times and places; we hope it will set a new tone with each of you today. Monotype Gallia™, our third item for July, is a classic display typeface from our archives worth discovering. And last but not least – and on a more serious note – we present our Funeral Value Pack for your consideration.

Have fonts of fun!

In this Issue:

Slab some goodness onto your documents – More than 40 slab serif families grouped and explained
A marriage of styles and languages – Introducing the new Cosmiqua family
A 1920s face with class and style – Monotype Gallia
Five traditional typefaces for solemn occasions – The Funeral Value Pack

Slab some goodness onto your documents – More than 40 slab serif families grouped and explained

Slab serif typefaces remain an ever-popular genre in graphic design and visual communication. For more than 200 years, designers, printers, and newsmakers have loved these forms and their various permutations. In a new Font Feature on Linotype.com, we’ve classified more than 40 of our favorite slab serif families into five categories. We hope that this makes finding the best slab serif magic easier than ever before. To spread around more love for slab serifs, we are offering a font from a recently released typeface to all customers who make a purchase on our webshop – free of charge – through August 15th: Diverda Serif Medium, by Daniel Lanz.

Examine the details of Diverda Serif and many of its cousins in the Slab Serif Feature at Linotype.com.

A marriage of styles and languages – Introducing the new Cosmiqua family

World premiere: Cosmiqua is a newly released, lively serif family from Akira Kobayashi. Inspired by advertising design from the 1950s, Cosmiqua joins formal italics with casual handwriting and 19th century British style, creating letterforms that exude hope for the future while appearing a little odd and kitschy! Cosmiqua itself is an amalgamation of the French word “cosmique,” meaning cosmic, and “Antiqua,” the German term for a serif typeface. Although the family was originally conceived for display uses, it is a serviceable text face as well. Cosmiqua ships as a family of five weights, each with an Italic. All ten of the fonts include oldstyle figures from the Linotype OpenType Com character set, which supports 48 languages and which runs on both the Mac OS and Windows platforms.

Retro, Victorian, or contemporary? You decide! Try Cosmiqua out today.

A 1920s face with class and style – Monotype Gallia

Wadsworth A. Parker created the original Gallia design for ATF in 1927; Monotype Gallia was released in 1928. Its design embodies the spirit and style of the American Art Deco age as well as that of the “Roaring 20s.” Use Monotype Gallia, which is all caps, to set a superb headline or to jazz up a packaging project. The typeface has also been known to lend a great effect to signs, menus, invitations, and stationary. A number of swash-like alternates for certain letters are included.

Monotype Gallia sings and swings across words and lines of text. See what it can do for you!

Five traditional typefaces for solemn occasions – The Funeral Value Pack

As a designer, one never knows when one will be called upon to create a funeral announcement on short notice. As Scouts across the world remind us, it is best to be prepared. Linotype has recently released a Funeral Value Pack, which includes five solemn fonts appropriate for the setting of traditional death and funeral announcements. Each of these typefaces speaks in their own unique voice. The five typefaces are Fette Gotisch, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch™, Omnia™, Scriptuale™ Semi Bold, and ITC Golden Cockerel™.

Special offer: For the next month, the Funeral Value Pack is available for USD 29,50.

Meet Linotype

Linotype employees often travel to international design conferences to meet directly with our customers.

Come and see us at TypeCon in Seattle (August 1–5, 2007) or at the ATypI Conference in Brighton, UK (September 12–16, 2007)!

Start submitting your posters for the Helvetica™ NOW contest!

In order to help celebrate Helvetica’s 50th birthday, Linotype has organized the Helvetica NOW design contest. Entries to this competition will be accepted online from July 4 to October 4, 2007. Submit your work today!

More details are available here.

We hope you found this issue of the LinoLetter informative and useful. We highly appreciate your feedback at info@linotype.com

The next issue of this newsletter will be published and dropped in your mailbox in August 2007.

Your Linotype Online Team

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