Platinum Fonts now available as single weights!
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 | The Linotype Platinum Collection is the exclusive series of newly optimized typefaces from the Linotype Library. These fonts have been reworked, expanded, and updated – both aesthetically and technologically – for the most demanding designers. Becoming a Platinum font involves redrawing outlines, adding new weights and variations, fine-tuning spacing, and introducing new small caps, extra figures, and language support.
We are proud to announce that this entire premium font collection is available for sale as single weights! Now is the time to have another look at the Platinum Collection to see all it has to offer! |
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 | This year we will celebrate the 90th birthdays of Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. World renowned for their typographic work ranging from typefaces to calligraphy to book design, this amazing couple is still going strong in the design industry. For this special occasion we are inviting artists, calligraphers, designers, and fans of Gudrun and Hermann to send in personalized birthday greetings. Messages, images, and designs are all welcome via Linotype.com and by mail. The messages will be personally presented to the couple at a birthday gathering in November. In conjunction with this, the submissions will also be on display in New York in a Type Directors Club exhibition! Please see our website for all the details. |
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 | Sebastian Lester’s “ultra-modern” Neo® Sans and Neo® Tech are the subject of a new Font Lounge article. Read all about the making of these designs and get inspired to use them in your own work. They are guaranteed to be a great addition to your typographic palette when looking for something new and abundant with high-tech style. |
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 | The current Font of the Week is ITC Santangeli, a handmade-looking script that captures warmth, personality, and humanity (and by humanity we mean ink spots)! Setting text with this design underscores the elegance of a script written in a realistic way, not with an over-the-top perfectionism like many scripts. Then for something even more unique, OpenType stylistic sets allow you to add layers of ink spots in and around your text. This great effect can add either a subtle texture to your design, or you can go wild with it and turn the text into a splattered mess! |
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 | Linotype’s powerful tool Font Identifier helps you figure out what typeface an unidentified specimen might be. Now it has been updated with an extra feature to restrict your search to specific characters. This will help speed up the identification process and give more accurate results with less work. |
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 | We are looking for your type photos! Linotype is holding its first photography contest. We are looking to license up to 30 photos of Linotype typefaces in use from around the globe. The photos are to be used in Linotype publications and a public vote will choose 3 winners who will receive many attractive prizes. |
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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 October 2008.
Your Linotype Online Team
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This newsletter may contain forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements about the product, strategic or business plans of Linotype GmbH. Various important risks and uncertainties may cause our actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by these forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the implementation of product changes, the adoption of our products by the marketplace, or our ability to obtain and enforce intellectual property protection. For a further list and description of the risks and uncertainties we face, please refer to the the filings made by our parent company, Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements; whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.
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