Font News Archive
DIN 1450 – the German standard on legibility of texts
The new German standard DIN 1450, which will come into force in mid-2013, will not only regulate how text is displayed on public signage systems, but will also set out clear guidelines for the appearance of other forms of text.
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Fruitygreen: a biologically inspired, very contemporary font with a high recognition factor
Fruitygreen is Indonesian designer Andi AW. Masry’s second typeface following Coomeec.
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eText fonts – the optimum of on-screen text quality
With our new eText fonts that have been optimised for on-screen use, you can ensure that your texts remain readily legible when displayed on smartphones, tablets or e-readers.
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Xenois: a typeface microcosm created by Erik Faulhaber in which clarity and diversity are combined
Xenois is Erik Faulhaber’s third major font family after Generis and Aeonis.
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Kimberley Geswein Fonts
When Kimberley Geswein is not busy teaching her two daughters at home, she dedicates her time to her other great passion: calligraphy.
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Brewery No 2: a contemporary, formally elegant typeface that combines features of Grotesque and Antiqua fonts
An entry in the Second Linotype Design Contest, Linotype Brewery, designed by Gustavs Andrejs Grinbergs, became part of the TakeType Collection in 1997.
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Agmena: a perfectly designed, poetic book typeface
Created by Jovica Veljović, the Antiqua typeface Agmena has been designed to be the perfect book font.
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Classic Grotesque by Rod McDonald: a traditional font with a modern face
An update of Monotype Grotesque that was first published in 1926, Rod McDonald’s Classic Grotesque combines both traditional and contemporary elements of typography.
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Smile please: Say Cheese!
Behind the original concept for Say Cheese is calligrapher Alan Blackman, who laboured for several years on getting the form of the characters right.
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A fresh and original calligraphic design: George Ryan’s Koorkin
George Ryan describes his new design, Koorkin, as “a calligraphic typeface through and through”.
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A space-saving calligraphic typeface with a unique flair: Coomeec by Andi AW. Masry
Although Andi AW. Masri designed his Coomeec typeface with one eye on comic books, this is more than just another cartoon font.
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Bomparte’s Fonts
The type foundry launched in 2006 offers the typefaces designed by John Bomparte.
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Neue Aachen: the robust, slab serif Aachen is now available as a complete typeface family
Impressed by the quality of the Aachen typeface that was originally designed for Letraset in 1969, Jim Wasco of Monotype has extended this robust display font to create an entire family.
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EmilyLime Design
The Emily Lime Design type foundry distributes the fonts designed by Emily Conners.
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Biome: a contemporary, retro-futuristic sans serif
Biome by Carl Crossgrove is a striking and individual typeface that has a vast spectrum of potential uses.
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Striking, spartan and swift: Titanium Motors
There is almost no other font that conveys a sense of speed better than the bold but dynamic letters of Titanium Motors by Steve Matteson.
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Hallmark Design Collection
For more than five decades, the prominent international concern Hallmark has been commissioning exclusive typefaces for use on its greeting and congratulations cards.
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Individual and very lively, with its own strong character: the Massif font by Steve Matteson
Steve Matteson is an experienced designer who above all has been drawing individual fonts for his customers for many years.
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Bitstream Foundry
Founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others, the US software and font foundry Bitstream was one of the pioneers of the digital typeface revolution.
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Sudtipos
In order to market their fonts, the four Argentinians Ale Paul, Ariel Garofalo, Claudio Pousada and Diego Giaccone founded the Sudtipos label in Buenos Aires.
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Levato: a refined Antiqua font with a highly dynamic feel
Levato, the first font designed by Felix Bonge, is an Antiqua that is full of character and is refined but by no means sterile.
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Emboss Fonts
In the heady atmosphere that dominated the world of typography in the mid-1990s, the American Stephan Boss founded his Emboss Fonts label.
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Shilia
A special design principle underlies the Arabic font Shilia created by Mamoun Sakkal.
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David Hadash: an extensive and highly versatile Hebrew font family
The sophisticated yet uncomplicated forms of the “David” font created by Ismar David in the 1950s ushered in a new era in the design of Hebrew typefaces.
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A vibrant and highly legible text font: Mantika Sans by Jürgen Weltin
With its well-defined characters that are readily legible even in the small font sizes, Mantika Sans by Jürgen Weltin is ideal for typesetting.
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The Cape Arcona Foundry
Stefan Claudius and Thomas Schostok, both German, put amusement in first place when it comes to font design.
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Rabenau, the distinctly warm and legible type family
Graphic designer Axel Bertram began work on Rabenau back in the mid-1990s.
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Now available from Linotype: Digitized fonts from the Pixilate Type Foundry
The Pixilate Type Foundry specializes in digital handwriting fonts.
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Two classics come up trumps: Georgia Pro and Verdana Pro each with five weights and condensed variants
They were originally developed specifically as screen fonts and are available on all operating systems.
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Parkinson Electra: impressive serif with individual personality
Electra was originally designed in the early 1930s by William Addison Dwiggins using the serif fonts of the 15th and 16th centuries as models.
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Vesta, an exceptional sans serif family
Vesta™ was originally designed as an orientation and information system for the city of Rome, the birthplace of the roman alphabet.
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Christian Schwartz’s authentic Neue Haas Grotesk
The original metal Neue Haas Grotesk™ would, in the late 1950s become Helvetica®.
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Sinova, the simple humanist sans
Sinova™’s simplified letterforms make it an ideal choice for those settings where you really don’t want the type to shout too loudly or draw unnecessary attention to itself.
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The new Akko and Akko Rounded von Akira Kobayashi – Industrial, friendly, fancy
Seit 2005 ist Akira Kobayashi für Linotype als künstlerischer Leiter tätig und hat seit dieser Zeit schon viele große Schriftfamilien überarbeitet und erweitert.
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Elegance married to versatility – The new Stevens Titling
Stevens Titling™, a collaborative work of the both calligraphers John Stevens and Ryuichi Tateno, is a suite of four fonts: Sable Brush, Badger Brush, Boar Brush, and Wolf Brush.
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Camphor: an exceptional new sans serif
Inspired by Edward Johnston’s type for the London Underground and Eric Gill’s Gill Sans, Camphor is also informed by the European sans serifs typified by Adrian Frutiger.
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Casual and confident handwriting – Bradley Type
The details that work for Bradley hand at smaller sizes, might be a little too distracting for some at larger, display sizes.
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Rameau for classic elegance
Rameau, designed by Sarah Lazarevic, is inspired and informed by the engraved copperplates of the 18th century.
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Carter Sans: a wonderfully accomplished humanist sans serif with a beautiful twist
Matthew Carter has been involved in designing typefaces since before many of us were in diapers.
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Taste the future with Neo Sans Arabic
The futuristic forms of Neo® Sans are captured beautifully in this fine Arabic accompaniment from Patrick Giasson.
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Aeris, the versatile text face
Aeris is a contemporary book face created by the American designer Tom Grace.
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Potpourri: created with a drinking straw and opaque white on black laid paper
The inspiration behind a font can come from an endless range of sources. For master calligraphist Gottfried Pott, it was the sight of a single letter on the cover of an edition of the Linotype magazine Matrix 4.3.
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WilliamLucas, a sumptuous and versatile script
Via OpenType, WilliamLucas’ numerous alternates, initial, and terminal glyphs, swashes, swash capitals (in some instances four to choose from!), come to life on the page, and make this versatile typeface one that you’ll most definitely enjoy experimenting with.
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Wedding Singer – a typographic duet that hits all the right notes
It began with the lettering on a wedding invite. As stepfather to the bride, Typographer of 30-plus years George Ryan volunteered to design his step-daughter’s wedding invites.
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Harmonia Sans – geometry with a twist
Jim Wasco carefully analyzed his favorite geometric sans, classics like Paul Renner’s Futura and Lubalin’s ITC Avant Garde Gothic; and crafted a confident, legible monoline, contemporary sans serif that is neutral and legible, but with enough character and poise to sing on the page.
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Linotype welcomes FontBureau Foundry
Setup in 1989 by David Berlow and Roger Black, Font Bureau has built its reputation on quality fonts crafted by world-renown type designers, for use in innumerable applications.
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Stempel Elan – Revival and Rediscovery
If you ever visit the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach, be sure to take a look inside their library. The type specimen collection is impressive, and includes one-of-a-kind examples.
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Elegy – the wait is over!
In the early 1970s Ed Benguiat drew the International Typeface Corporation’s logo, a flowing script that many have hoped would one day be expanded into a complete font.
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ITC New Esprit, sculpted elegance in a beautiful typeface family
Originally drawn in 1985, Jovica Veljovic had intended to add a few kerning pairs and make some minor refinements to the letterforms.
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Challenger from Manfred Kloppert
German-born, veteran graphic designer and calligrapher Mandred Kloppert, has designed everything from book covers and packaging to logos and fonts.
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Francker from Francker
Hailing from Denmark, Anders Francker’s first typeface family, Francker, is inspired by the ‘superellipse’ or ‘Lamé curve’.
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An informal script with formal intentions – introducing Mantika Informal
Jürgen Weltin’s Mantika Informal is pretty difficult to categorize, but very easy to like.
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Nimrod, the newspaper type, now with Greek and Cyrillic fonts
Originally released by Monotype in 1980, Robin Nicholas’ Nimrod is now a mature 30-year-old, and still going strong.
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Sumner Stone re-cuts his eponymous sans serif – Introducing ITC Stone® Sans II
The ITC Stone® Sans II typeface family is completely new, from the drawing board up.
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An Ad Man’s serif from the swinging 60’s – Madison Antiqua
Madison Antiqua was original released as a metal typeface for hand setting in 1965.
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ITC Handel Gothic – New oblique fonts, and a larger character set
What’s old is new again. Master type designer Rod McDonald revives, expands and enhances the Handel Gothic family.
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An informal, free-spirited hand – Veljovic Script Latin and Cyrillic
Veljovic Script™ is an informal, brush-style calligraphic typeface.
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An Arabic typeface for Electronic Publishing – The Arian Family
For decades, the Persian-born Naghi Naghashian has been working as a graphic designer and illustrator in Germany.
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150 new Chinese and Japanese fonts
The following 150 Chinese and Japanese fonts from DynaComWare are priced for individual users.
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The future is now – Neuropol X is a forward-looking display family
Neuropol X is a typeface family from Ray Larabie, one of the most prolific typeface designers on the Internet.
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Monotype reloads a great sans serif family’s design – Felbridge Pro
The impetus behind Felbridge™ was both ambitious and highly practical: to develop an ideal “online” typeface for use in web pages and electronic media.
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New sans serif types from Berlin – ITC Chino and Klint
The ITC Chino™ typeface family is a study in contrasts: twelve family members ranging from fanciful, script-like display designs, to typefaces with a decidedly judicious demeanor well-suited for text composition.
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Ysobel: a new typeface family available in text and display versions
Ysobel™ is a new serif typeface family, consisting of text and display versions, inspired by the Century and Century Schoolbook typefaces of the early twentieth century.
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Revised, expanded, and with more OpenType features – Meet Neue Swift
Lightning-fast swifts draw lines and exciting arcs in the air – an example for the designer’s hand and pencil.
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Retooled with additional weights and improved spacing – Linotype’s Neue Frutiger®
During planning for the new Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at the beginning of the 70s, it was decided that the airport’s signage system had to present a clear and legible script.
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Clear forms, classic and simple – Erik Faulhaber’s Aeonis family
After Generis, Aeonis™ is the second largest family of typefaces by Erik Faulhaber.
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ITC Legacy Square Serif & ITC Legacy Serif Condensed
The ITC Legacy™ Square Serif and ITC Legacy Serif Condensed designs make the ITC Legacy family a typographic tour de force. These two designs join the ITC Legacy Sans and ITC Legacy Serif suites of typefaces to create a remarkably handsome and versatile extended typeface family.
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Meet the newest typeface from master designer Jovica Veljovic – Libelle
Libelle™ is a 21st century English Copperplate Script typeface.
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Luba – This informal sans helps introduce readers of the Latin script to Cyrillic
Luba™ is a multi-script text family designed by Hendrik Moeller.
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Linotype Nautilus expands into two new families: Nautilus Text and Nautilus Monoline
Hellmut G. Bomm first released his Linotype Nautilus™ typeface in 1999.
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A new family with sturdy serifs – Try part of Malabar for free
A new type family for extensive text, Malabar likely is the first typeface in the Linotype library named after a brew of coffee.
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Introducing a new mid-century style script – Virtuosa Classic
Hermann Zapf has created dozens of typefaces over the course of his decades-long career. One of the very first was Virtuosa.
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Reinventing a quirky 1920s serif stencil face – Iwan Stencil
Iwan Stencil™ is a new revival of an old display typeface. Based on type originally designed by Jan Tschichold in 1929, the style was revived by Klaus Sutter in 2008.
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Diotima Classic – Gudrun Zapf von Hesse recreates a post-war favorite
In 2008–2009, Akira Kobayashi worked with Gudrun Zapf von Hesse to revive and reinterpret Diotima®, one of the most beautiful types ever cast in metal. Their result is Diotima Classic.
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Two new Linotype families: Opal and Snoogle
The following pages illustrate two great new Linotype families: Opal™ and Snoogle™.
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Two new fonts from Patricia Roesch-Pothin – Tendria and Saussa
Patricia Roesch-Pothin is a young French designer. In February 2009, Linotype released a double pack of her vibrant, calligraphically inspired typefaces: Tendria™ and Saussa™
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A solid, stylish slab serif design: the new Egyptian Slate from Rod McDonald
Just as the camera adds weight to human faces, serifs can add weight to typographic faces. Rod McDonald trimmed and adjusted his new Egyptian Slate™ design as it emerged from its sans serif predecessor, the Slate™ design.
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Fresh type from Serbia – The ITC Nova Lineta family
Highly legible and very lively: it’s the ITC Nova Lineta™ design.
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Inspired by the handwriting of Pope John Paul II: JP2
Francizek Otto began the project that led to the JP2™ typeface after being inspired by an autographed and blessed photograph of Pope John Paul II.
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Eurostile Next extras – Akira Kobayashi’s Eurostile Candy & Eurostile Unicase
Released in early 2008, Eurostile® Next is one of the newest members of Linotype’s Platinum Collection. This family represents a thorough digital rethinking and extension of the typeface.
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Renner Antiqua – Reviving a serif typeface from the designer of Futura
Linotype’s Renner Antiqua™ is a revival by Patrick Strietzel of an earlier typeface issued by D. Stempel AG in metal. The original Renner Antiqua was designed by Paul Renner (1878–1956).
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Giacometti Letter and Giacometti Pi – Update of an old favorite
Together, Giacometti™ Letter and Giacometti Pi make up a stunning comic-style font family.
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Harmony between east and west: the new Tanseek typeface family
The new Tanseek™ typeface family achieves this beautifully – typographically speaking. The Tanseek family system is one the first to provide a balanced relationship between the Arabic and Latin alphabets, thereby creating uniform typographic color on a page using both alphabets.
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New Arabic Typefaces for Multilingual Communication Today
Nadine Chahine, the designer of Frutiger® Arabic and TDC2 award winning Palatino® Arabic, has finally released her own independent designs: Koufiya™, Badiya™, and Janna™.
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The Juicy and Satisfying Quench
Quench™ is a fun and unique typeface from designer Hannes von Döhren. It is unmistakably characterized by its strong contrast of inside and outside forms.
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More New Foundries – Our library is always growing
Take a look at our newly added foundries and font collections and all the fresh typefaces inside!
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Versatile, extensive, customizable, & multi-lingual – Soho Gothic has it all
The Soho™ Gothic suite of typefaces is the latest chapter in the Soho design project.
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Adrian Frutiger’s newest typeface: Frutiger Serif
It isn’t every day that one of the world’s most popular sans serif typeface families receives a new serif companion. When this happens, it is certainly reason to celebrate.
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Corrected, expanded, improved – Eurostile Next
Eurostile has been with us for decades. Its heritage is a bit obscure. Born in Italy, Eurostile had two designers, and two release dates, even if purists might insist that it really just had one of each.
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Now including sans serifs – Berling Nova grows even more useful
Berling™ Nova is a nordic workhorse text face, with six typefaces spread over four weights and two optical sizes.
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Created for legibility – Satero Sans and Satero Serif
Created for extreme legibility, Satero® is a new type system with serif and sans serif variants!
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Frutiger Arabic
Popular throughout the world for over 30 years, the Frutiger® typeface now has companion Arabic fonts.
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Two Linotype Thai designs released in OpenType: Sirichana and Sukothai
Linotype is proud to announce the rerelease of two classic Thai typefaces: Sukothai® and Sirichana®. As fully functioning OpenType fonts, these designs are now ready for contemporary use.
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Circus posters or the Wild West – Madame and its features do layering for you
Madame is based on 19th Century French woodtype display faces, specifically on an 1820 example from the Founderie Typographique Française.
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21st century script – Introducing Hamada
Linotype’s Hamada™ typeface is a powerfully built script design bringing the work of English calligrapher Gaynor Goffe into the digital workflow.
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Sunetta
Three complementary styles – Sunetta™ Flair, Sunetta Charme, and Sunetta Magic – work together to build up varying degrees of calligraphic for the user and their designs.
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Monotype Imaging acquires Linotype
Monotype Imaging and Linotype are joining forces to pursue a common vision – to help customers improve global communication through type.
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Aptifer Sans and Aptifer Slab
Two highly legible typeface families, usable both in print and on screen.
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Zapfino Extra
Zapfino® Extra Pro, the contextual version of Zapfino, automatically provides individual and varied results!
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ITDC 2003 Winner Fonts
The winning fonts of Linotype’s International Type Design Contest 2003.
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Avenir Next
Completely reworked Avenir® typeface family, newly designed in regular, regular italic, condensed and condensed italic, each containing 6 weights from Ultralight to Heavy. Avenir Next offers an optimal balance of harmony and contrast.
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Neue Helvetica Pro
All 51 Neue Helvetica® Pro fonts on one CD for Mac and PC in OpenType CFF format, suitable for all platforms.
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Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection
Largest compilation of typefaces from the designers Gudrun and Hermann Zapf with 143 high quality typefaces.
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Vialog
Vialog® remains an aesthetic and legible typeface, due to its detail and quality.
Designed especially for signage systems, traffic, transportation and communication by Werner Schneider.
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Designed especially for signage systems, traffic, transportation and communication by Werner Schneider.
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Zapf Essentials
The modernized version of Zapf Dingbats®, designed by Hermann Zapf himself. Over 372 characters and symbols to make life a little bit more communicative, a little more informative, and a lot more interesting ...
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Linotype Compatil
The first comprehensive font system: With this typeface system, there are no limits to the font user´s creativity.
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Frutiger Next
The new Linotype Frutiger™ Next is a font which lends clarity and legibility to the presentation of information.
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Linotype Finnegan
The new Linotype Finnegan® from designer Jürgen Weltin with its exciting contours is extremely effective as a font for legible longer texts.
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A Classic Celebrates its Renaissance: The New Linotype Syntax
The New Linotype Syntax® has been reworked by Linotype and designer Hans Eduard Meier.
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