LinoLetter 2007/06

Frutiger Next OpenType and Five New OpenType Collections

! Welcome to the Current Issue of the LinoLetter !

Introduction:

This month, our themes revolve around OpenType. By now, you are probably familiar with the benefits of this cross-platform font format. Linotype is pleased to present a number of products that, in the OpenType version, offer customers much more than earlier font formats do. Our first item is the OpenType release of the famous Frutiger Next family. Also premiering in this issue of LinoLetter are our new OpenType Essentials packages, the successors to the popular Linotype Essentials series. Additionally, we’d like to direct your attention to a sturdy new typeface family from Monotype Imaging, the slab serif Soho. Lastly, thanks to the additional fonts now available on our website, we have more Garamond-style families to offer than ever before – 12 to be exact! A new Font Feature helps explain which one is right for you.

Have fonts of fun!

In this Issue:

Frutiger Next – Now available with OpenType features
Building blocks toward your new type library – The OpenType Essentials
Soho – The slab serifs strike back
12 different Garamonds – Which one is right for me?

Frutiger Next – Now available with OpenType features

A Frutiger family with small caps, oldstyle figures, and Western, Central, and Eastern European Glyph coverage in every font! Adrian Frutiger’s eponymous typeface has been used for decades, everywhere from airport signage to book text to corporate logos to the smallest web graphics. When Linotype released the improved and extended version in 2000 – Frutiger Next – the family was made more legible and usable than ever. Aside from having a different weight structure, Frutiger Next’s most noticeable change was the addition of true Italics in lieu of Obliques. Now, Linotype customers may order Frutiger Next in OpenType format as well. The OpenType family has seven weights (an Extra Light weight was created just for the OpenType release). Each weight ships in Regular, Italic, and Condensed variants – that’s 21 fonts in all! Plus, the fonts include more robust character sets, thanks to OpenType.

Enjoy the Frutiger Next Family’s newest additional members!

Building blocks toward your new type library – The OpenType Essentials

For years, the Linotype Essentials 1 and Linotype Essentials 2 have been key elements of design studios’ software libraries the world over. These have been some of the most practical and bargain-priced font libraries available, allowing customers to pick and choose how to build their collections. However, the Linotype Essentials packages are only available in PostScript and TrueType formats. Now Linotype is pleased to announce its OpenType Essentials packages! Together, they offer all the essential fonts your design work will require. Best of all, the packages’ size and price allow you to be flexible and build up a great library over time.

Check out the details of the OpenType Essentials packages.

Soho – The slab serifs strike back

A new typeface family from Monotype Imaging’s Sebastian Lester, Soho is an industrial-strength slab serif typeface. Built for heavy-duty work, its design has been fine-tuned and precision-engineered for the needs of graphic designers creating new corporate design for the 21st century. The Soho typeface family – named after the district in central London – is composed of nine weights and five widths, producing a multitude of options. Each font takes advantage of OpenType technology to offer extensive language coverage, stylistic alternatives, ligatures, and small caps. Purchase individual weights of Soho, or check out any of the five custom-assembled Soho Value Packs!

From super-chic to cavalier: put your next message forward, with Soho.

12 different Garamonds – Which one is right for me?

Enter the term “Garamond” into the search bar on Linotype.com and you’ll get a wealth of results. But of all the font families, like Stempel Garamond, Monotype Garamond, Garamond Antiqua, Garamond #3, Garamond Classico, Adobe Garamond, Garamond Premiere, ITC Garamond, Simoncini Garamond, and even Sabon, Monotype Sabon, or Sabon Next, which is the “real” Garamond? To help disambiguate one of the biggest genres in typographic history, we’ve created a new Font Feature.

Follow this link to the Garamond Font Feature at Linotype.com!

TypoTechnica 2007 – A look back

From April 27–29, 2007, more than 100 font technology specialists participated in the fourth TypoTechnica conference, sponsored by Linotype at the Gutenberg-Schule in Frankfurt, Germany.

Visit the “events” section of our website, and peruse information about the conference and photos capturing some of the highlights!

Helvetica NOW: Bigger and better

To give more freedom to entrants, Linotype has now widened the contest doors to posters that have been published between 2000 and 2007, and which use Helvetica™ as the primary or secondary typeface in the design. Entries will be accepted from July 4 through October 4, 2007.

Take a look at all the updated information.

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 July 2007.

Your Linotype Online Team

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