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Rotis® Sans Serif Font Family

- by Otl Aicher
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Rotis® Sans Serif 45 Light (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif 46 Light Italic (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif 55 Roman (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif 56 Italic (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif 65 Bold (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif 75 Extra Bold (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Cyrillic 45 Light (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Cyrillic 46 Light Italic (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Cyrillic 55 Regular (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Cyrillic 56 Italic (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Cyrillic 65 Bold (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Cyrillic 75 Extra Bold (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Greek 45 Light (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Greek 46 Light Italic (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Greek 55 Regular (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Greek 56 Italic (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Greek 65 Bold (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Greek 75 Extra Bold (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis™ Sans Serif Family CD for Mac OS and Windows
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Rotis Sans Serif Cyrillic Volume (Monotype Originals)
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Agfa Rotis Sans Serif Value Pack (Monotype Originals)
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Rotis® Sans Serif Schriftfamilie
Quelle:
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Gezeigte Schriften:
Rotis® Sans Serif Schriftfamilie

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This font family consists of four versions of Rotis®, named by Otl Aicher after the village in the Allgäu where he has lived since 1972. Aicher’s goal was to design a family of fonts which could serve almost any typographical purpose. Rotis® gives an impression of both strength and generosity and all four versions can be used interchangeably with one another. Rotis® is suitable for books/text, documentation/business reports, business correspondence, magazines, newspapers, posters, advertiments, [...]
Otl Aicher – born May 13, 1922 in Ulm, Germany, died September 1, 1991 in Rotis über Leutkirch, Germany – type designer, graphic designer, author, teacher. 1946–47: studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. 1947: design studio in Ulm. Produces graphics for: Braun Elektrogeräte (1954), Deutsche Lufthansa (1969), Westdeutsche Landesbank (1964), Blohm & Voss (1964), Bayrische Rückversicherung (1972), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ZDF (1974) and Erco (from 1976), among [...]
Rotis font family This font family consists of all versions of Rotis®, named by Otl Aicher after the village in the Allgäu where he has lived since 1972. Aicher’s goal was to design a family of fonts which could serve almost any typographical purpose. Rotis® gives an impression of both strength and generosity and all four versions can be used interchangeably with one another. Rotis® is suitable for book/text, documentation/business reports, business correspondence, magazines, newspapers, [...]
Font Designer: Otl Aicher, 1988 Otl Aicher named his typeface Rotis® after the small village in southern Germany where he has lived since 1972. The goal was to create an aesthetic type family which could fulfil a variety of typographic requirements. The result: a remarkable sans serif and a reserved antiqua with a total of 17 weights which combine extremely well with one another. This unification of two classic forms was almost revolutionary in 1988. Over centuries, designers had [...]
Font Designer: Otl Aicher, 1988 Otl Aicher named his typeface Rotis® after the small village in southern Germany where he has lived since 1972. The goal was to create an aesthetic type family which could fulfil a variety of typographic requirements. The result: a remarkable sans serif and a reserved antiqua with a total of 17 weights which combine extremely well with one another. This unification of two classic forms was almost revolutionary in 1988. Over centuries, designers had [...]

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Designer: Otl Aicher, 1989
The Rotis® Sans Serif Font Family is part of the Monotype Originals.
Rotis® is a comprehensive family group with Sans Serif, Semi Sans, Serif, and Semi Serif styles, for a total of 17 weights including italics. The four families have similar weights, heights and proportions; though the Sans is primarily monotone, the Semi Sans has swelling strokes, the Semi Serif has just a few serifs, and the Serif has serifs and strokes with mostly vertical axes. Designed by Otl Aicher for Agfa in 1989, Rotis has become something of a European zeitgeist. This highly rationalized yet intriguing type is seen everywhere, from book text to billboards. The blending of sans with serif was almost revolutionary when Aicher first started working on the idea. Traditionalists felt that discarding serifs from some forms and giving unusual curves and edges to others might be something new, but not something better. But Rotis was based on those principles, and has proven itself not only highly legible, but also remarkably successful on a wide scale. Rotis is easily identifiable in all its styles by the cap C and lowercase c and e: note the hooked tops, serifless bottoms, and underslung body curves. Aicher is a long-time teacher of design and has many years of practical experience as a graphic designer. He named Rotis after the small village in southern German where he lives. Rotis® is suitable for just about any use: book text, documentation, business reports, business correspondence, magazines, newspapers, posters, advertisements, multimedia, and corporate design.

Rotis® Sans Serif is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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