LinoLetter 2009/11

New sans serif types from Berlin – Announcing the release of Klint and ITC Chino

Hannes von Döhren is one of Germany’s up-and-coming typeface designers. In the span of little over a year, Linotype has published five of his creations alone: first, Quench®, Opal™ and Snoogle™, and now the new Klint™ and ITC Chino™ families. ITC Chino itself is really two typeface groups: ITC Chino and the display weights ITC Chino Display. Developed in collaboration with Livius Dietzel, the ITC Chino system is a series of sans serif types with a friendly appearance. Their look is highly suitable for contemporary design, especially in the fashion, music, or design sectors.
From now to December 31, 2009, all customers who make any purchase at Linotype.com will receive a free font from the ITC Chino family as well – ITC Chino Black Italic.
Because of everything that ITC Chino has to offer, we have created a special microsite for the family. Check it out at www.ITCChino.com.
Klint™, on the other hand is a large, technical-style sans serif family, which includes a grand total of 30 fonts. A large x-height makes Klint’s letters especially legible at small point sizes. Through conspicuous letters like R, K, k, or g, as well as the independent nature of its Italic, Klint exudes an ethos that separates it from the other post-millennial tech sans families.

Zapfino Extra Cyrillic

Hermann Zapf’s Zapfino® typeface is our most popular script design. In just a decade, these letters have traveled around the world and achieved an iconic status. As advertising, branding, and corporate image are now global affairs, encountering text set in Zapfino in countries whose languages don’t use the Latin script is quite common.
Earlier this year, Linotype worked closely with Jovica Veljovič to expand Zapfino’s support further eastward. He drew a Cyrillic extension to the Zapfino Extra One font. With his results, customers may now easily translate Hermann Zapf’s calligraphic gestures into even more languages, including Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.

Frutiger Arabic Condensed

Over the summer, we announced that Adrian Frutiger’s and Nadine Chahine’s Frutiger® Arabic typeface family had doubled in size. The range of fonts grew to include four condensed weights, helping to strengthen Frutiger Arabic’s role as one of the most important contemporary branding design tools in the Middle East. Condensed typefaces save space, enabling users to set larger headlines, for design more compact logos, or generally just tighten up certain passages of text. Combine individual condensed weights with each other or with the regular-width Frutiger Arabic fonts – the possibilities are endless!

FontExplorer X Server – Save on a ten-user license

FontExplorer® X Pro and FontExplorer X Server are a dynamic pair of font-management programs for all those working with fonts, or organizing an agency’s font files. Are you looking for a font management solution upgrade? Then don’t miss our new special offer! Until December 31, 2009, we are offering our customers the opportunity to license FontExplorer X Server for 10 users at a cost of just 699 euro/USD 999 (plus tax). Don’t let this offer pass you by!

Typejockeys and Blue Vinyl – New at Linotype.com and in the FontExplorer X Store

Every month, new type foundries and their fonts join our online shops.

Two of Germany’s Best-Designed Books of 2009 are set in our Frutiger typeface

The books “Adrian Frutiger Schriften. Das Gesamtwerk” and “Schriftwechsel” are among Germany’s best-designed books of the year, according to the Stiftung Buchkunst. The Adrian Frutiger book is also available in English and French editions. You can order any of these books – as well as many others – via Linotype.com’s Recommended Books section.