Now is a great time to get reacquianted with the best Linotype faces from the last 10 years; reaquaint is certainly the best word, as you’ve already gotten to know these designs in your visual enviroment for some time.
Since the late 1990s, Linotype has brought new typefaces onto the market that have changed the way the world communicates. Many of our fonts are found on computers in all parts of the globe, and a few have even become household names – at least among graphic
[...]Still searching for the perfect font or ornament for this year’s Christmas cards or holiday party invitations? Allow us to come to the rescue! Before you give up hope, make sure to visit our new X-Mas Font Feature page. Here we’ve collected images showing great ways to use a number of appropriate text, headline, and symbol fonts. We are sure to have the style you are looking for!
The Linotype Easter Font Selection
The change of seasons brings a breath of fresh air into our daily routine. It is time to open the windows and let the sun in! Invite your neighbors over for tea, or if the weather is right, a BBQ! The fonts you’ll need are now all viewable here in this specially edited selection.
The Art of Hermann Zapf – A video of him working!
Customers from all over the world come to Linotype.com every day to purchase fonts. Below is a list of the 20 typeface families that our customers licensed most often in during 2008. Do you know them all?
Available as Value Pack for instant download or on CD with physical shipping
Four alphabets for interchangeable use with many additional characters, newly designed small caps, 100 ornaments, and hyper-flourishes
New: Zapfino Extra Pro, the contextual version of Zapfino, automatically provides individual and varied results!
Now it is simpler than ever to make beautiful typography using the unique calligraphic typeface, Zapfino®.
After first learning the possibilities that digital fonts and computer programming had to offer, Hermann Zapf – the designer of
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Zapfino® – Perfect calligraphy on your computer
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Unbeatable price! Purchase all 24 Zapfino weights in one package, available now for instant download.
Need individual Zapfino weights? No problem! Single font weights from the Zapfino typeface are available for instant download. From .
Zapfino Extra Pro/Zapfino Extra Forte Pro: the
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In September 2008, Russia hosted its first ATypI conference. The ATypI, or Association Typographique International, is an organization of typographers and type designers. Every year, they meet together in a different city. Despite the strong contribution that Russian designers have made to the typographic fields in the past, this was their first opportunity to invite the international type community to such an event on their soil.
Several Linotype employees and designers were present at
[...]Biography of Akira Kobayashi:
Studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, and later followed this up with a calligraphy course at the London College of Printing. Freelance type designer since 1997.
Professional experience
April 1983–March 1989
Sha-ken Co. Ltd, Japan Typeface design department
December 1990–June 1993
Jiyu-kobo Ltd, Japan
September 1993–March 1997
TypeBank Co. Ltd, Japan
March 1997–April 2001
Freelance type designer
April 1998–April
[...]German designer Hermann Zapf created the following fonts:
Aldus® (1954), Aldus Nova (2005), Aurelia™ (1983), Comenius® Antiqua BQ (1976), Edison™ (1978), Kompakt™ (1954), Marconi® (1976), Medici® Script (1971), Melior® (1952), Noris Script® (1976), Optima® (1958), Optima nova (2002), Orion™ (1974), Palatino™® (1950), Palatino nova (2005), Palatino™ Sans (2006), Saphir™ (1953), Sistina® (1950), Vario™ (1982), Venture™ (1969), Virtuosa® Classic (2009),
[...]Four alphabets for interchangeable use with many additional characters, newly designed small caps, 100 ornaments, and hyper-flourishes
New: Zapfino Extra Pro, the contextual version of Zapfino, automatically provides individual and varied results!
Now it is simpler than ever to make beautiful typography using the unique calligraphic typeface, Zapfino.
After first learning the possibilities that digital fonts and computer programming had to offer, Hermann Zapf – the designer of Zapfino
[...]OpenType is a font format that was collaboratively developed by Adobe and Microsoft during the 1990s. The first specifications were published in 1997, and the first OpenType fonts came onto the market in 2000. Today, most new fonts are released in OpenType format, which can safely be considered the new industry standard.
The OpenType format supports Unicode™, which is why OpenType fonts can contain large character sets. In fact, an OpenType font can contain more than 65,000 glyphs! This is a
[...]Venture™
Venture Script reflects Hermann Zapfs handwriting. It was originally written with a Japanese feltpen. And like with Zapfs typeface Noris Script™ he wanted to preserve the rough outline of the handwritten form in the final drawings. Venture Script was made also for the Linofilm photocomposing system and released in 1969.
ITC Zapf Book®
Zapf Book font is a blend of the characteristics of Walbaum, Melior™ and the contrasting weights of Bodoni. It is a typical Zapf font, distinction
[...]The OpenType font format is an enhancement to TrueType™ and PostScript® which was jointly developed by Adobe Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corporation. OpenType combines these two technologies and extends their capabilities. The result is a new generation of OpenType fonts with better typographic and layout features as well as the possibility for fully Unicode™ conform extended character sets.
Hint: For a listing of available OpenType Fonts type OPENTYPE in the QuickSearch
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Font Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1998
David Siegel in Palo Alto had the original idea of using the calligraphic work of Hermann Zapf created in 1944 as the basis for a calligraphic script in order to try out a new type of system for typesetting on the PC. Zapf himself was unable to achieve such an authentic script himself given the technical restrictions of hot metal composition. It nevertheless remained his dream for many years.
Gino Lee, who at that time lived in Boston, digitized the
[...]Display Fonts
ZapfinoExtra is an OpenType format typeface available in two versions. The Contextual version contains a treasure-trove of extra contextual features. When created in 2004, this was the most advanced OpenType font released to date. By purchasing the Contextual version, users of OpenType-supporting applications, such as Adobe InDesign, may access all of the features available in the entire Zapfino family through just two fonts,
Zapfino Extra LT Pro (Contextual), and
Zapfino Forte LT Pro!
Unfortunately, most non-Adobe applications currently do not support the contextual features made possible by recent OpenType developments. Users of Quark XPress and Microsoft Office should instead purchase all of the non-contextual fonts of Zapfino Extra Pro family, in order to access all of the Zapfino family's 1676 glyphs.
The Zapfino family's character set supports 48 western and central European languages.
More Zapfino History:
Today's digital font technology allowed the world-renowned typeface designer/calligrapher Hermann Zapf to finally realize a vision he first had more than fifty years ago: creating a typeface that could capture the freedom and liveliness of beautiful handwriting. The basic Zapfino™ font family, released in 1998, consists of four alphabets with many additional stylistic alternates that can be freely mixed together to emulate the variations in handwritten text.
In 2003, Herman Zapf completely reworked the Zapfino design, creating Zapfino™ Extra. This large expansion of the Zapfino family was designed in close collaboration with Akira Kobayashi. Zapfino™ Extra includes a cornucopia of new characters. It features exuberant hyper-flourishes, elegant small caps, dozens of ornaments, more alternates and ligatures, index characters, and a very useful bold version-named Zapfino™ Forte. Use Zapfino to produce unusual and graceful advertisements, packaging, and invitations. Zapfino Extra is so joyously abundant that it's tempting to over-indulge, so be sure to check out the
tips for working well with the possibilities!
