Einleitung
Kurz vor Jahresschluss ist genau die richtige Zeit, noch einmal einen Blick auf die besten Linotype-Schriften der letzten zehn Jahre zu werfen – bestimmt sind Ihnen viele dieser Schriften inzwischen durch Ihre tägliche Arbeit bestens vertraut!
Während der späten 90iger brachte Linotype viele neue Schriften auf den Markt und veränderte damit weltweit die Art der Kommunikation. Viele unserer Schriften findet man rund um den Globus auf den Computern, einige davon sind in
[...]Agilita™ ist eine neue humanistische, serifenlose Linearantiqua, entworfen von Jürgen Weltin. Ihre eher klassischen Proportionen mit deutlich ausgeprägten Unter- und Oberlängen formen eindeutige Wortbilder.
Sie ist charakterisiert durch dynamische Einzelformen, die sich jedoch in ein klares und funktionales Gesamterscheinungsbild fügen. Dadurch ist Agilita sowohl eine geeignete Schrift für den Mengensatz als auch für komplexe Aufgaben im Informationsdesign, wie z. B. Leitsysteme.
Folglich
[...]Five fonts of the famous Sassoon font family for only .
The Sassoon font family is a smashing success in England! Buy its five most versatile styles now, for just !
The flexibility of this Sassoon family of types makes using it a lot of fun. Our Sassoon Value Pack contains the following five fonts: Sassoon Book Regular, Sassoon Infant Regular, Sassoon Primary Regular, Sassoon Sans Regular, and Sassoon Sans Slope Regular.
British designer Rosemary Sassoon these fonts in 1995, after a
[...]Football Jersey Fonts
Football is in the air! Like all great team sports, football (or soccer, if you are in the US) inspires its fans to identify with their favorite team’s players, and sometimes even with a specific city or country. Each football team has its own visual identity, and the appearance of their logos and jerseys are one of the most exciting areas of graphic design. And it is no surprise that fonts play a strong role!
Below are images of just a few of the jerseys known and
[...]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
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Genau wie das beliebte Compatil® ist das Schriftsystem Generis von Linotype ein Paket mit vier Schriftfamilien. Von jedem Schriftstil, also Generis Serif, Generis Sans, Generis Simple und Generis Slab, gibt es vier verschiedene Gewichtungen und eine Kursivversion. Alle Gewichtungen und Schriftformen basieren auf einer einheitlichen Grundstruktur und daher gewährleistet diese Zusammenstellung ein harmonisches Textbild. Von den serifenlosen Typen gibt es zusätzlich eine Light- und eine
[...]Bei diesen 33 Halloween-Fonts ist Grusel-Stimmung garantiert!
Ob Sie ein Kostümfest organisieren, für Halloween-Artikel werben oder einfach eine gespenstische Atmosphäre schaffen wollen, diese Schriften sind genau das, was Sie gesucht haben!
In unserem Halloween Value Pack finden Sie fünf großartige Schriften zum kleinen Preis: drei Grusel-Schriften und zwei furchterregende Pi-Fonts!
Viele andere Designs sind außerdem einzeln erhältlich. Hier finden Sie unsere Auswahl vieler weiterer
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Hier finden Sie eine Auswahl an verborgenen „Schrift-Schätzen”. Möglicherweise kennen Sie schon einige, aber kannten Sie alle?
Viel Spaß beim Anschauen!
Klare Formen, klassisch und schlicht: Die Schriftfamilie Aeonis von Erik Faulhaber
Nach der Generis™ ist die Aeonis™ die zweite große Schriftfamilie von Erik Faulhaber. Vorbild für die serifenlose Grundform der Aeonis war die griechische Lapidarschrift des 9. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Typisches Merkmal dieser wegen ihrer Deutlichkeit häufig verwendeten Schrift ist die offene Form des Großbuchstabens A. Inspiration für die Rundungen der Aeonis war eine Deckenleuchte des deutschen
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Wir laden Sie ein zu einem Besuch auf unserer Website! Hier können Sie aus über 9.000 hochwertigen Originalschriften die Fonts aussuchen, die Sie mit Microsoft Office verwenden möchten. Von „klassisch“ bis „cool“ – ganz nach Ihrem Geschmack. Hier finden Sie neben den altbekannten und beliebten Klassikern wie der Helvetica®, der Frutiger® und der Univers® auch ein ständig wachsendes Sortiment innovativer Fonts, entworfen von jungen Schriftdesignern aus der ganzen
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Wir laden Sie ein zu einem Besuch auf unserer Website! Hier können Sie aus über 9.000 hochwertigen Originalschriften die Fonts aussuchen, die Sie mit Microsoft Office verwenden möchten. Von „klassisch“ bis „cool“ – ganz nach Ihrem Geschmack. Hier finden Sie neben den altbekannten und beliebten Klassikern wie der Helvetica®, der Frutiger® und der Univers® auch ein ständig wachsendes Sortiment innovativer Fonts, entworfen von jungen Schriftdesignern aus der ganzen Welt.
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Die richtigen Schriften für die drei offiziellen Amtschriften der Europäischen Union.
Mit dem Beitritt von Bulgarien im Januar 2007 ist neben dem lateinischen und griechischen Alphabets nun auch das kyrillsche Alphabet die dritte Schrift der Union.
Die Linotype Original-Fonts mit der Zusatzbezeichnung „W1G” erfüllen die Zeichensatzbelegung gemäß Linotype Norm W1G (World Glyph 1).
Sehen Sie hier, welche Sprachen mit den W1G-Fonts unterstützt werden (PDF-Dokument
[...]Neville Brody – born 23. 4. 1957 in London, England – graphic designer, art director, type designer.
1975: studies painting at Hornsey College and from 1976–79 at the London College of Printing. Numerous record covers. 1981–86: art director of the English magazine "The Face". 1983–87: covers for the London magazine "City Limits". 1987–90: works for the "Arena" magazine. Art director for the magazines "Per Lui" and "Lei" of the Condé Nast Publications in Milan and the French magazine
[...]Morris Fuller Benton – born 30. 11. 1872 in Milwaukee, USA, died 30. 6. 1948 in Morristown, USA – engineer, type designer.
After training as a mechanic and engineer, Benton jointed the ATF, where he became type designer and in-house designer with ATF.
Fonts: Benton developed over 200 alphabets, all of which were published by ATF, including Century roman (with Theodor Low de Vinne, 1885), Mariage (1901), Alternate Gothic (1903), Franklin Gothic (1903–12), Cheltenham® (1904), Clearface®
[...]Designer Erwin Koch created the following fonts: Angro™, Dalcora™ (1989) and Monanti (1989).
Jürgen Weltin was born on May 8th, 1969 in Constance. After schooling and swimming a lot in the Lake of Constance he worked in a publishing house before he started to study graphic design at the Technical College in Würzburg. After an apprenticeship in design company Stankowski + Duschek and after one term at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design he graduated in Würzburg under Reinhard Haus from Linotype presenting the beginning of the new typeface Linotype Finnegan®.
Then he
[...]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),
[...]German designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse created the following fonts:
Alcuin® (1991), Ariadne® (1954), Carmina® (1986), Christiana® (1991), Colombine® (1991), Diotima® (1952), Diotima® Classic (2008), Nofret® (1984) Shakespeare™ (1968), Smaragd™ (1953).
Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Gudrun Zapf von Hesse.
Adrian Williams began his career converting many established metal designs for the new filmsetting devices in1969; an era when other equipment manufacturers offered their devices, each with its own kind of unit system for the operating program. During the 70s he became involved with converting typefaces to digitised systems and is responsible for many original designs which he redrew, working with each manufacturer to make fonts for their unique formats. This led to the production of custom
[...]The German designer Roman Sehrer created the font Ad Pro™ in 2004.
Roman Sehrer has digitized his handwriting to create a family of three fonts to meet your free-feeling and laid back design needs. He recommends that you try this family out on posters, logos, and restaurant menus, where in each case it will offer a great combination and contrast to traditional sans serifs like Helvetica® or like Univers®.
American designer Paul Veres created the fonts Linotype Aperto™ (1996), Banjoman™ (1996) and Caterina™ (2004).
Linotype Aperto is a typical text font in the style of transitional faces, like its often-used cousin Times. It is available in roman, semibold and bold weights, each with its matching italic. The roman weight is complete with old style figures and small caps. Its balanced, reserved appearance makes Aperto extremely flexible, good for long texts as well as headlines.
Most of the
[...]German designer Carla Schweyer created the font Linotype Ambigue™ in 1999. The original name was "Confidence". This font family receives the first prize at the German Kurt Christians-Foerderpreis in 1997/98. This professional typeface is available in the weights Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black. Its interpolated weights offer a subtle differentiation in the grey levels. A special "Small" weights is available which offers a better readability in small point sizes like lexica and
[...]Penumbra™ was designed by Lance Hidy in 1994, an all-capital multiple master font with two design axes: weight and style. The style axis progresses from a sans serif display design to a full serif design, with flare serifs and half serifs, and everything in between. The weight axis ranges from light to bold. Penumbra’s style range from a Futura-like sans serif to a Sistina-like serif can be successfully used in myriad display situations.
Swedish designer Mårten Thavenius created Aptifer™ Sans and Aptifer™ Slab for the Linotype Library in 2006. Apart from designing type faces, Mårten Thavenius develops user interfaces for online solutions, mostly complex web based applications and portal systems. Visual design, usability and readability as well as technical implementations are on his daily agenda. He is currently working as a Senior GUI Architect at IBM.
Marten Thavenius lives in Belgium and Sweden.
Visit Mårten’s foundry
[...]Born in Germany (1966). Studied Graphic-Design in Karlsruhe. Freelance designer since 1996. Held teaching assignments in Halle, Weimar and Wuppertal.
In 2006 Erik Faulhaber designed Generis®. Generis is a system of four compatible typeface families, each variant drawn in a different generic style, perfectly suitable for almost any design application.
In 2009, Erik Faulhaber created Aeonis™, a classic-style sans serif typeface family with a clear, minimalistic design.
The Website of
[...]Ismet Chanbour created the fonts Al Harf Al Jadid™ (1980) and Mariam® (1992).
Al Harf Al Jadid is a traditional-style Arabic display typeface. Al Harf Al Jadid Two is an outline version of Al Harf Al Jadid One. Although their design is ultra bold, its forms remain a readable Naskh, in response to the needs of secular lettering for emphatic headlines and signs. Al Harf Al Jadid One and Two are characterized by a distinctive, strong baseline-stroke, reminiscent of a similar
[...]The Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei traces its origins back the to printer Jean Exertier, during the second half of the 16th century. Business later passed on to the Genath family. In 1718, Johann Wilhelm Haas (1698–1764) from Nuremberg was hired. He later inherited the company as recognition of his efforts. After 1740, the business was run under the Haas name. In 1972, the entire type program from Deberny & Peignot in Paris was added, followed by that of the Fonderie Olive, Marseille in 1978. With
[...]Find further Font Features in our Font Feature Archive.
Ahmed™ is a modern Arabic headline face, first produced by Linotype-Hell Ltd. in the early 1980s.
Originally developed as a simplified face, its design recalls the inscriptional and decorative tile work lettering of the medieval period. The strong treatment of the tails of certain characters departs from the more traditional style of tapering these finials, introducing a modern feel to the design.
The contrasting proportions of the tall vertical strokes and the rather elongated counters
[...]Superstar British designer Neville Brody has created typefaces that revolutionized the industry over the past two decades. These classics naturally have a sound place in the Linotype Libray.
More about the fonts:
Arcadia™
Arcadia was originally designed as the banner for Arena magazine in 1986. 1990 it was released as a font by Linotype GmbH.
Borrowing elements from Art Deco styling, Arcadia is a tall and striking geometric design with extremely condensed and contrasting forms. The
[...]Amer™ is a modern Arabic headline face, distributed in OpenType format. This OpenType font includes Latin glyphs from Kabel™ Book, allowing users to set text in both most Western European and Arabic languages without switching between fonts.
Amer includes the Basic Latin character set (Western CP 1252 Latin 1/ANSI and Macintosh US Roman) and the Arabic character set (CP 1256), which supports Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. The font also includes tabular and proportional Arabic, Persian, and Urdu
[...]Hermann Zapf is renowned the world over as a master calligrapher and type designer. Throughout his tremendous life, he has contributed volumes to the history of typography. His oeuvre encompasses text faces, symbol fonts, and even script designs, such as the new classic Zapfino. So many of his typefaces have entered our daily lives that it is impossible to image contemporary design without them. Below are all of his digital designs for Linotype.
More about the fonts:
Aldus™
This typeface
[...]Mårten Thavenius designed Aptifer in 2006. The typeface family consists of two subfamilies: Aptifer Sans and Aptifer Slab. Each of them has seven weights – thin, light, regular, medium, semibold, bold, and black – in roman and italic respectively, making 28 font styles in total.
A heritage from two design traditions can be seen in Aptifer. One is the robust American gothic typefaces, like M. F. Benton’s, from around 1900. This is combined with the openness and legibility that comes from the
[...]Finding function in light and flexible forms
Bad Homburg, 26 January, 2007. Linotype launches one of the lightest fonts ever – Agilita™, a new OpenType sans serif, both adaptable and lively. In smaller point sizes, the hairline weight of Agilita is so fragile, it pulsates with the possibility of disappearing and reappearing. The larger the point size of the hairline, however, the more it wants to take charge, its delicacy lifting off the page and grabbing the eye. In heavier weights, Agilita
[...]Five font families for a new season
Bad Homburg, 26 January, 2007. A new year is here, time to get back to the drawing board. Linotype has been busy sourcing the latest originals all year and to kick off the new year, launches five new font families in OpenType format. Each family offers its own dash of color and originality and can be employed for a variety of graphic communication needs. The fresh additions to the Linotype Library – Sunetta™, Aptifer™, Linotype Aroma™ OT, Anno™ and OCR A
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Font Designer: Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow, 1985
Lucida® is a family of fonts with one basic design, but offered in more variations than normally available for one font. It has both serif and sans serif characters, as well as weights designed specifically for a particular purpose. One weight will print out clearly even on fax machines, another offers the possibility to present a text with black letter characters. The different weights are extremely versatile and can generally be
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Font Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1954
Aldus® was designed by Hermann Zapf and appeared with the font foundry D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main in 1954. Zapf named this font after the famous Venecian printer Aldus Manutius, whose work is among the most important of the Renaissance period as well as Zapf's inspiration for Aldus. Linotype Aldus was introduced by Linotype as a text font lighter than Palatino®. Zapf's goal with his Palatino and Aldus was to create a new form of Old Face
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Font Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1954
Aldus® was designed by Hermann Zapf and appeared with the font foundry D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main in 1954. Zapf named this font after the famous Venecian printer Aldus Manutius, whose work is among the most important of the Renaissance period as well as Zapf's inspiration for Aldus. Linotype Aldus was introduced by Linotype as a text font lighter than Palatino®. Zapf's goal with his Palatino and Aldus was to create a new form of Old Face
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Font Designer: Rosemary Sassoon, 1995
Sassoon® was designed in 1999 by Rosemary Sassoon in the style of typefaces found in schoolbooks in the early 20th century. The font exhibits a harmony between the space within and outside of the letters. The letters have soft, round forms which give text an almost ornamental character. This flexible font can be used for headlines or text, in small or large point sizes.
Font Designer: Roman Sehrer, 2004
Roman Sehrer, a seasoned German advertising professional, has digitized his handwriting to create AdPro™, a family of three fonts to meet your free-feeling and laid back design needs. Sehrer recommends that you try this family out on posters, logos, and restaurant menus, where in each case it will offer a great combination and contrast to traditional sans serifs like Helvetica® or like Univers®.
Font Designer: Roman Sehrer, 2004
Roman Sehrer, a seasoned German advertising professional, has digitized his handwriting to create a family of three fonts to meet your free-feeling and laid back design needs. Sehrer recommends that you try Ad Pro™ out on posters, logos, and restaurant menus, where in each case it will offer a great combination and contrast to traditional sans serifs like Helvetica® or like Univers®.
Font Designer: Hellmut G. Bomm, 1999
Hellmut G. Bomm about Linotype Nautilus™:
"Nautilus is based on a handwritten type used for the text "Li. Das Helle, Klare" from the I Ging (screenprint, 1981, see Fig. 1).
The intention was to create a clear, highly legible typeface. While the even strokes of sans serif types eventually tire the eyes in long texts, the marked stroke contrast of Nautilus lends the type its legibility. The characters were drawn with a broad tipped pen, and
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Font Designer: Hellmut G. Bomm, 1999
Hellmut G. Bomm about Linotype Nautilus:
"Nautilus is based on a handwritten type used for the text "Li. Das Helle, Klare" from the I Ging (screenprint, 1981, see Fig. 1).
The intention was to create a clear, highly legible typeface. While the even strokes of sans serif types eventually tire the eyes in long texts, the marked stroke contrast of Nautilus lends the type its legibility. The characters were drawn with a broad tipped pen, and like
[...]Various usage samples of Linotype Ambigue.
For a larger view please click on the images
Font Designer: Mårten Thavenius, 2006
Mårten Thavenius designed Aptifer® in 2006. The typeface family consists of two subfamilies: Aptifer Sans and Aptifer Slab. Each of them has seven weights – thin, light, regular, medium, semibold, bold, and black – in roman and italic respectively, making 28 font styles in total.
A heritage from two design traditions can be seen in Aptifer. One is the robust American gothic typefaces, like M. F. Benton’s, from around 1900. This is combined
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Font Designer: André Maaßen
The impulse behind André Maaßen's design of the Anno™ typeface was the design of a New Year's card for the year 2000 (Anno 2000). His desire to create the perfect printed image developed into a family with four styles: Anno 1, Anno 1 Italic, Anno 2, and Anno 2 Italic. Anno 1 and its Italic are semi-classicist typefaces, with a high degree of stroke contrast, while Anno 2 and its Italic are semi-grotesks, with less stroke contrast. Both Anno 1 and Anno 2
[...]For a larger view please click on the image.
This text shows Linotype Finnegan’s possibilities of combinations.
Not your grandmother’ s medieval type ... meet the “American” Gothic fonts!
A breed of no-nonsense typefaces, called “Gothics” in the United States, have been serving as heavy hitters in financial services, business, and newspaper sectors since the late 19th Century. Gothic typefaces – not to be confused with Blackletter typefaces, which look “gothic” in a scary, medieval sort of way – are American sans serifs. Their forms are designed to solve
[...]Serifenlose Schriften
Die ersten Zeichnungen von Jürgen Weltin, nach denen Agilita digitalisiert wurde, entstanden Anfang 2000.
