FONT MAGAZINE – News about typography
Jürgen Weltin developed the sans serif font Mantika Sans using older designs …
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A vibrant and highly legible text font: Mantika Sans by Jürgen Weltin
With its well-defined characters that are readily legible even in the small font sizes, Mantika Sans by Jürgen Weltin is ideal for typesetting.
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The Cape Arcona Foundry
Stefan Claudius and Thomas Schostok, both German, put amusement in first place when it comes to font design.
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Now available from Linotype: Digitized fonts from the Pixilate Type Foundry
The Pixilate Type Foundry specializes in digital handwriting fonts.
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Adelle: an individual, readily legible slab serif
The multipurpose slab serif Adelle of the Typetogether foundry is at its best when used to set newspaper and magazine text.
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Two classics come up trumps: Georgia Pro and Verdana Pro each with five weights and condensed variants
They were originally developed specifically as screen fonts and are available on all operating systems.
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Parkinson Electra: impressive serif with individual personality
Electra was originally designed in the early 1930s by William Addison Dwiggins using the serif fonts of the 15th and 16th centuries as models.
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An interview with Anders Francker
The Danish engineer and typeface designer Anders Francker developed an interest in fonts and numerals while still a child and had always had the ambition to create his own typeface.
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Vesta, an exceptional sans serif family
Vesta™ was originally designed as an orientation and information system for the city of Rome, the birthplace of the roman alphabet.
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Rock am Ring 2011 – the fonts behind the music
We investigate the fonts behind the music and ID the types used on the CD jackets of the event’s headliners.
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Sinova, the simple humanist sans
Sinova™’s simplified letterforms make it an ideal choice for those settings where you really don’t want the type to shout too loudly or draw unnecessary attention to itself.
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Christian Schwartz’s authentic Neue Haas Grotesk
The original metal Neue Haas Grotesk™ would, in the late 1950s become Helvetica®.
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An interview with Gerard Unger
The Dutch font designer Gerard Unger has already created many well-known typefaces, including Demos®, Praxis®, and Neue Swift, to name but a few.
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trytype2
This collection of works was produced by students attending the “Art and Clients – trytype2 cooperation project with Linotype” seminar held during the 2010/2011 winter semester at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden.
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Elegance married to versatility – The new Stevens Titling
Stevens Titling™, a collaborative work of the both calligraphers John Stevens and Ryuichi Tateno, is a suite of four fonts: Sable Brush, Badger Brush, Boar Brush, and Wolf Brush.
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The new Akko and Akko Rounded von Akira Kobayashi – Industrial, friendly, fancy
Seit 2005 ist Akira Kobayashi für Linotype als künstlerischer Leiter tätig und hat seit dieser Zeit schon viele große Schriftfamilien überarbeitet und erweitert.
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Linotype’s most popular faces of 2010
Which of our newly launched fonts were most successful in 2010? We’ve conducted a survey to find out – and here are the results!
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Camphor: an exceptional new sans serif
Inspired by Edward Johnston’s type for the London Underground and Eric Gill’s Gill Sans, Camphor is also informed by the European sans serifs typified by Adrian Frutiger.
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Casual and confident handwriting – Bradley Type
The details that work for Bradley hand at smaller sizes, might be a little too distracting for some at larger, display sizes.
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Rabenau, the distinctly warm and legible type family
Graphic designer Axel Bertram began work on Rabenau back in the mid-1990s.
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Taste the future with Neo Sans Arabic
The futuristic forms of Neo® Sans are captured beautifully in this fine Arabic accompaniment from Patrick Giasson.
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Rameau for classic elegance
Rameau, designed by Sarah Lazarevic, is inspired and informed by the engraved copperplates of the 18th century.
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Carter Sans: a wonderfully accomplished humanist sans serif with a beautiful twist
Matthew Carter has been involved in designing typefaces since before many of us were in diapers.
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Award-winning business reports 2009 written with fonts from our range
For the 15th time, Manager Magazine looked at the business reports produced by leading public corporations in Germany and Europe.
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Aeris, the versatile text face
Aeris is a contemporary book face created by the American designer Tom Grace.
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