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See below Compatil® Letter Font Family or other typefaces from the in real usage ...
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The idea to develop a new typeface tailored to the special requirements of annual reports was born out of the "First Heidelberg Forum for Annual Reports 1988".
The challenge was to provide a type system that delivered readability and multiple tonality while maintaining harmony throughout the wide range of different characters required in an annual report.
Linotype worked closely together with Professor Olaf Leu and his Analyse Team at the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, who have [...]
Introduction
Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world. From the submitted public corporations who published their 2005 annual reports in early 2006, Manager Magazin released their jury’s favorites in the October 2006 issue.
Manager Magazin picked the top ten annual reports in six different business categories, and their jury selected an overall top ten as well. Virtually every [...]
Introduction
Many typeface catalogs, including our own, group all serif typefaces together under one umbrella-category. But in truth, there are many different kinds of serifs, e.g., Renaissance serifs, baroque serifs, unbracketed modern serifs, Latin serifs, wedge serifs, etc. One of the most popular styles of seriffed letter, especially for display type, remains the slab serif.
The slab serif is a genre of letterforms that has been in use for almost 200 years. Throughout this time, many [...]
Introduction
Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world. From the submitted public corporations who published their 2006 annual reports in early 2007, Manager Magazin released their jury’s favorites in the October 2007 issue.
Manager Magazin picked the top ten annual reports in six different business categories, and their jury selected an overall top ten as well. Virtually every [...]
Olaf Leu was born in Chemnitz in 1936. He apprenticed as a typesetter and typographic designer in the art department of the Bauer type foundry. Later, he worked as the assistant to the creative director at the Hanns W. Brose advertising agency in Frankfurt am Main.
In 1959, he began his career as a freelance graphic designer and art director. In 1971, he founded the studio “Olaf Leu Design” in Frankfurt am Main, which became known as “Olaf Leu Design und Partner” in 1976. The studio remained [...]
In designing Linotype Compatil, particular attention was paid to ensuring optimum on-screen displays.
The problem in displaying individual forms lies in the low resolution of the screen. This results in the font being displayed in a lower quality. It is particularly important that the individual forms are displayed clearly in on-screen applications and can be distinguished easily.
This is particularly true for financial accounts that are presented on the Internet. The key features include [...]
Other families by this designer ...
About Compatil® Letter Font Family ...
Designer: Linotype Design Studio / Olaf Leu, 2001
The Compatil® Letter Font Family is part of the Platinum Collection.
Compatil is the first comprehensive type system which enables all typographical elements to be used to full effect in order to reproduce the message conveyed by text information. Four different type styles with a total of 16 weights including italics have been merged into a unique typographical network. There are now no limits to the font user's creativity. The system is a product of technical innovation and constitutes a new design approach which meets the highest aesthetic standards. For almost two years, a team of experts from Linotype has been working with initiator Professor Olaf Leu under the direction of Silja Bilz, Erik Faulhaber and Reinhard Haus to create the Compatil type system. Despite the Internet and TV, it is essential today to be able to absorb information quickly by being able to read it with ease. A fact that is becoming increasingly important both on-screen and on paper. It is the role of the font to increase legibility and to ensure typographically perfect results for text design work. The new Compatil type system meets all these needs. The Compatil is a part of the Platinum Collection.The following four different styles are available:
Compatil Exquisit,
Compatil Fact,
Compatil Letter and
Compatil Text.
Compatil is available in various font formats:
16 separate OT Pro fonts including the small caps and Adobe Central European character set for OpenType-supporting applications like Adobe InDesign, or as
32 separate OpenType Com fonts for office communication, with the following special features:
1. Optimized display capabilities for computer screens eXcellent Screen Fonts (XSF-quality).
2. An extended, international character set, which supports 48 different languages for Microsoft Office applications like MS Word or as
64 PostScript fonts, which can be used in non-OpenType-supporting applications like Quark XPress.
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