LinoLetter 2009/05

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In this Issue: Meet the newest typeface from master designer Jovica Veljović – Libelle Luba – This informal sans helps introduce readers of the Latin script to Cyrillic From 16th century pens to 21st century keyboards – Introducing Neudoerffer Fraktur Nautilus – a type system with “text” and “monolinear” families Mind the Gap? No gaps in OpenType support for ITC Johnston! Meet the newest typeface from master designer Jovica Veljovic – Libelle Jovica Veljović plays a special role in the world of typeface design. Originally hailing from Serbia, he has been educating generations of new designers at the university in Hamburg since the early 1990s. Jovica Veljović is an accomplished calligrapher; he still performs a number of public commissions. His previous work has been released through the ITC and Adobe libraries. In 1985, he received the coveted Charles Peignot prize, given by the ATypI once every few years to a typeface designer younger than 35. In recent interviews with the German media, Hermann Zapf mentioned him as his successor. Jovica’s newest typeface release is a Linotype Original. Named Libelle™, after the German word for dragonflies, this feature-rich English copperplate script highlights Jovica’s mastery of calligraphic detail, as the font includes more than 400 alternates – just enough to inject the right amount of irregularity into this rigid genre. The many OpenType features of Libelle form a world of their own. Investigate all of them in a special web feature!   Luba – This informal sans helps introduce readers of the Latin script to Cyrillic Berlin-based designer Hendrik Möller created Luba™ as part of his final project at university. The typeface family is an informal sans serif that encompasses both the Latin and the Cyrillic scripts. Möller envisioned that it might be used in language textbooks aimed at helping Western Europeans learn the Russian language or other languages like Ukrainian or Bulgarian that use the Cyrillic script. Luba’s design places significant emphasis on the most necessary identifying elements of each letter, resulting in clear, legible forms. Since learning a language is already stressful enough, Luba’s style is that of an open, informal sans serif, which should relax the student as they read through their exercises. Interested in Luba family? Click here for more samples!   From 16th century pens to 21st century keyboards – Introducing Neudoerffer Fraktur For decades, German designer Hellmut G. Bomm has been fascinated by Johann Neudörffer the Elder’s 1538 writing manual. A collaborator of the renowned German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, Neudörffer helped develop the Fraktur style of Blackletter. Fraktur types would go on to be among the most-used European typographic styles for centuries. Going back to the roots, as it were, was a driving force for Bomm. His Neudoerffer Fraktur™ design has three separate character sets, offering users more variety than in most blackletter fonts. Depending on your computer applications’ level of OpenType support, you may choose between two versions of OpenType fonts for Neudoerffer Fraktur. If you are using Adobe InDesign CS, you can take advantage of the three Stylistic Sets in Neudoerffer Fraktur Regular. Otherwise, to get the typeface’s full effect, you will need to switch between Neudoerffer Fraktur Regular 1, Neudoerffer Fraktur Regular 2, and Neudoerffer Fraktur Regular 3. Go back in time with us! Learn more about Neudoerffer Fraktur on our website.   Nautilus – a type system with “text” and “monolinear” families Hellmut G. Bomm has been quite busy recently. These offerings are of a completely different nature than Neudoerffer Fraktur, showing his versatility with letters. Together, Nautilus™ Text and Nautilus Monoline Text offer document creators a diverse new kit of design tools. The Nautilus type system arose out of an earlier Bomm release: his original Linotype Nautilus, which was published in 1999. Nautilus Text is similar to Linotype Nautilus, but more finally tuned to the needs of immersive reading. Nautilus Monoline is completely new, and feels quite contemporary. Its letterforms share the same proportions as those in Nautilus Text, but without the calligraphic modulation. Nautilus Monoline is a refreshing headline type to pair with body text set in Nautilus Text, or any other condensed serif design. Compare the letters from Nautilus Text and Nautilus Monoline online!   Mind the Gap? No gaps in OpenType support for ITC Johnston! ITC Johnston™ finds its roots in Edward Johnston’s early 1900s “London Underground Railway” typeface. This modern, digital ITC family was begun in the late 1990s. In 2002, David Farey and Richard Dawson revised the fonts a bit and added Italics. Now they are back with a vengeance, and the OpenType Pro version of this classic UK masterpiece of design has hit the streets for everyone to use. Johnston’s London Underground Railway typeface was the first alphabet created for a specific corporate identity and the first sans serif design of the twentieth century. It was an alphabet primarily for signage and other display purposes – designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text. Farey and Dawson’s adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston’s letters while allowing it to settle in comfortably at text sizes. Read more about the development of ITC Johnston at Linotype.com.

Henning Skibbe and Classic Font Company – New at Linotype.com and in the FontExplorer X Store Every month, new type foundries and their fonts join our online shops. Click here to see a complete list of more than 150 additional foundries whose libraries have been added to the Linotype website, and jump directly to the fonts from Henning Skibbe or Classic Font Company! Meet Linotype Linotype employees often travel to international design conferences to meet directly with our customers. Come and see us at the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas (June 24–27, 2009)! Click here to find out more details.

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 June. Your Linotype Online Team

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