By Adrian Frutiger
Much has been written about the evolution of type: how the forms of our letters took shape, from the roman capitals to the Carolingian minuscules, and how the Latin alphabet was then, essentially, finalized for eternity by the first printing presses of the Renaissance Age.
Looking back from where we stand now, we could say that the original forms of our uppercase letters are around 2,000 years old, while those of our lowercase letters would be over 1,000 years old. And
[...]It isn’t always easy to correctly identify a typeface’s unique nature and special characteristics. At first glance, many people might mistake Mano® for a script font.
Spontaneous and friendly: Mano’s light expression is especially well suited for use with food and cosmetic products.
Linotype Nautilus incorpora dos nuevas familias: Nautilus Text y Nautilus Monoline
Hellmut G. Bomm lanzó por primera vez en 1999 su tipografía Linotype Nautilus™. Diez años después actualizó y expandió el diseño; ahora los usuarios tienen dos nuevas familias a su disposición: Nautilus Text y Nautilus Monoline. Nautilus Text se parece más a la Linotype Nautilus original. Las letras muestran mayor contraste en la modulación de los trazos.
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
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Every year, more and more text is read directly on a computer screen in office applications, or from freshly printed sheets from a copier or laser printer. Clear, legible text faces are more imperative to office communication than ever before. Yet every worker desires a small bit of personality in the corporate world. Most office environments are only equipped with a few basic fonts that are truly optimized for use in text, with laser printers, and on screen.
Akira Kobayashi,
[...]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 repetition of simple geometric shapes forms a daily part of our environment. Throughout the 20th century – and into the 21st – typefaces whose designs have taken advantage of this have remained popular. But finding exactly the right mood can be tricky. For your convenience, we have grouped some of our favorite geometric typefaces (mostly sans serif and symbol) into four categories: circles, squares, ovals, and triangles.
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
[...]Introduction
Prolific! Perhaps this is the best word to describe the life and work of Morris Fuller Benton. The creator of over 200 types for ATF, Benton left his mark on 20th Century design. His faces would spread across the globe, and dozens are still in use today.
Las originales sans cuadradas, redibujadas: Bank Gothic y Morris Sans
Bank Gothic fue un tipo de letra publicado en 1930 por la American Type Founders (ATF). Morris Fuller Benton, Diseñador jefe de ATF, creó la familia. ATF Bank Gothic fue una familia de cinco tipos: ligero, medio, negrita, condensado ligero y condensado medio. Se fundían en metal para la composición manual. Se usaron durante décadas (ver imag. 1).
Al igual que la famosa Compatil®, el sistema tipográfico Generis de Linotype es una matriz para cuatro familias tipográficas. Los pesos Generis Serif, Generis Sans, Generis Simple y Generis Slab se cuadriplican en cada tipo. Es decir, que puede modificar cualquier cantidad de texto compuesto en un estilo de Generis a otro, sin que afecte al aspecto de la línea. Subraye algunas palabras de un texto compuesto en Generis Serif con Generis Simple, por ejemplo, y la posición de cada carácter
[...]Adrian Frutiger ha trabajado estrechamente con Linotype durante varios decenios. A lo largo de los profusos años de su fructífera colaboración, hemos recopilado un buen número de fotografías de Adrian Frutiger. Estas imágenes nos permiten vislumbrar distintos periodos y puntos culminantes de su vida hasta el momento. Tenemos fotos en las que está trabajando en su estudio, momentos de su vida junto a sus tipos de letra e incluso imágenes más recientes en las que está trabajando con Akira
[...]Desde las plumas del siglo 16 hasta los teclados del siglo 21 – Presentamos Neudoerffer Fraktur
Aquí encontrará una selección de gemas tipográficas ocultas. Puede que ya conozca algunos de estos diseños … ¿pero los conoce todos?
Esperamos que se divierta navegando por esta selección.
Los 10 lanzamientos tipográficos más famosos de Linotype en 2009
Ahora que el 2009 ha tocado su fin, echemos la vista atrás y recordemos los lanzamientos tipográficos más famosos del año. Los hemos agrupado en tres categorías: sin gracias, con gracias y tipos de letra.
Diseñada por Adrian Frutiger y Akira Kobayshi, 2006
Nami®, el término japonés “ola” es la última colaboración entre Adrian Frutiger y el director tipográfico de Linotype, Akira Kobayashi. Esta familia tipográfica es el diseño sans serif más humanístico jamás creado por Adrian Frutiger. Presenta un giro interesante: se puede navegar entre alternativas lapidarias con ayuda de aplicaciones compatibles con OpenType.
Adrian Frutiger comenzó el diseño que daría lugar a Nami
[...]Text Category 1st Prize
Sultan Free by Sultan Maktari (Yemen)
Judge's choice for Dr. Fiona Ross
Text Category 2nd Prize
Midan™ by Kameel Hawa, Director of Almohtaraf assaudi (Lebanon)
Judge's choice for Hermann Zapf
Honorary Mention 3rd Prize
RSIexquisite by Ramzi Ibrahim
Honorary Mention 4th Prize
Fluid by Omar Safa
Honorary Mention 5th Prize
Sultan by Sultan Maktari
Display Category 1st prize
Isra™ by Almamoun Ahmed (Sudan)
Judge's choice for Mamoun
[...]Una nueva familia de estudio con gracias – Pruebe parte de Malabar gratis
Una nueva familia tipográfica para uso extensivo en texto: Malabar™ es posiblemente la primera fuente de la biblioteca Linotype que se llama como una variedad de café. En principio, la fuente tenía un nombre distinto. Cuando Dan Reynolds estaba diseñando los primeros pesos del tipo en el curso MA Typeface Design en la Universidad de Reading (Reino Unido), lo bautizó como Martel, por el héroe franco del
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Elija las fuentes que necesita para Microsoft Office navegando por nuestra página Web - donde encontrará más de 9.000 fuentes originales de gran calidad, de las más clásicas a las más modernas. Aquí encontrará los clásicos más conocidos como Helvetica®, Frutiger® o Univers® en continua expansión de fuentes innovadoras y recientes de los nuevos diseñadores de todo el mundo.
La mejor elección para las aplicaciones de Office son nuestras fuentes XSF (eXcellent Screen Fonts),
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Elija las fuentes que necesita para Microsoft Office navegando por nuestra página Web - donde encontrará más de 9.000 fuentes originales de gran calidad, de las más clásicas a las más modernas. Aquí encontrará los clásicos más conocidos como Helvetica®, Frutiger® o Univers® en continua expansión de fuentes innovadoras y recientes de los nuevos diseñadores de todo el mundo.
Linotype ofrece fuentes tipográficas Mac PostScript™ y más de 7.000 fuentes en OpenType™, el nuevo formato
[...]Frutiger® – la imparable fuente sans serif classic.
Consiga los originales de Linotype como fuentes únicas, en un Value Pack o en CD.
Acerca de Frutiger
El famoso diseñador tipográfico Adrian Frutiger creó una obra maestra con esta fuente tipográfica. Ante el desafío de diseñar un tipo excepcionalmente legible para las señales del aeropuerto Charles de Gaulle en París, desarrolló lo que ahora es el legendario conjunto Frutiger en 1968. La fuente tipográfica Linotype original no ha
[...]Frutiger™ Capitalis
At first glance, Frutiger Capitalis Regular and Outline may seem related to the roman type Capitalis Monumentalis, but upon closer examination, the fonts reveal a vitality unknown to the characters the Romans etched in stone. Frutiger confesses that creating Capitalis was "a liberation." After working on so many sophisticated and meticulously designed typefaces, Capitalis was a breath of fresh air.
Stylistically, Frutiger Capitalis Outline forms a bridge to Frutiger
[...]Should it be a sans serif, a text face, a script font, or perhaps blackletter? Every month, selected fonts are chosen from the depths of Linotype´s collection for your perusal. Check out this month´s medley!
Veto
The underlying intention in the case of Veto® was to create a new and original sans serif font. For example, the lower case Veto letters are of normal width, while the upper case letters are quite clearly much narrower in proportion. This is because Marco Ganz considers that if miniscule letters are too narrow they are difficult to read (see Rotis®) while majescules that are too wide not only have an outmoded effect but take up too much space (see Helvetica®).
Which font
[...]Compre fuentes arábigas en la biblioteca Linotype
Linotype ofrece una gran cantidad de fuentes arábigas nuevas, modernas y tradicionales. Estas fuentes están disponibles en formato OpenType y son compatibles con los idiomas árabe, persa y urdu. Pero eso no es todo: Estas fuentes también incluyen caracteres básicos latinos acordes con el estilo y el peso de los caracteres arábigos y un conjunto adicional de numerales proporcionales. Además responden a los altos niveles de calidad técnica de
[...]William A. Dwiggins – born 19. 6. 1880 in Martinsville, USA, died 25. 12. 1956 in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA – type designer, printer, typographer, graphic designer – studied at the Frank Holme School of Illustration in Chicago under Frederic W. Goudy.
1903–04: runs his own printing workshop in Cambridge, Ohio. 1905–16: commercial artist in Hingham, Massachusetts. 1917–18: director of Harvard University Press. 1919: founds the Society of Calligraphers in Boston and is their president and
[...]Über die Lesbarkeit
Unter dem Einfluss der verschieden Druckverfahren hat die lateinische Textschrift subtile Formveränderungen erfahren. Grundsätzlich neue Formen sind jedoch keine entstanden. Als Demonstration dafür sind acht a in den meistgelesenen Schriftstilen mit einem Drehraster versehen und übereinander kopiert. Das Resultat zeigt eine erstaunliche Übereinstimmung.
Rudolf Koch – born 20.11.1876 in Nuremberg, Germany, died 9.4.1934 in Offenbach, Germany – type designer, typographer, calligrapher, teacher.
1892-96: trains as an engraver in Hanau. 1896-97: trains as an art teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Nuremberg and at the Technische Hochschule in Munich.
1911-24: publishes the "Rudolfinische Drucke" with Rudolf Gerstung. 1921: founds the Offenbacher Werkgemeinschaft at the Technische Lehranstalt Offenbach. 1930: is awarded a honorary doctorate
[...]Aldo Novarese – born 29.6.1920 in Pontetura Monferrato, Italy, died 16.9.1995 in Turin, Italy – type designer, teacher.
1931-33: Attends the Scuola Arteri Stampatori in Turin, where he learns woodcut, copper engraving and lithography. 1933-36: attends the Scuola Tipografica Guiseppe Vigliandi Paravia in Turin. 1936: joins the Nebiolo type foundry in Turin as a draftsman. 1938: is awarded a gold medal in the national Ludi Juveniles art competition.
1948-58: teaches graphic drawing at the
[...]The French designer Georges Peignot (born 24. 6. 1872, died 28. 9. 1915) created the fonts Cochin® (1914) and Nicolas Cochin® (1912).
Georges Peignot designed Cochin based on copper engravings of the 18th century and Charles Malin cut the typeface in 1912 for the Paris foundry Deberny & Peignot. The font is named after the French engraver Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790) although its style had little to do with that of the copper artist's. The font displays a curious mix of style
[...]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®
[...]Grafik-Designer AGD
Stuttgarter Straße 128
71522 Backnang
Telefon (0 71 91) 6 31 11
Fax (0 71 91) 8 60 83
E-mail: h.g.bomm@t-online.de
Geboren 1948 in Backnang, Baden-Württemberg
1972–1975 Studium am Institut für Buchgestaltung der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenen Künste Stuttgart bei Walter Brudi, Kurt Weidemann, Günter Jacki.
Seit 1975 eigenes Grafik-Design Studio in Backnang.
Please take a look at a digital exhibition of works of Hellmut G. Bomm and at his personal
[...]Alessandro Butti – born 1893, died 1959 in Turin, Italy – type designer, teacher. Art director of the Nebiolo type foundry in Turin. Taught at the Scuola Vigliani-Paravia.
Fonts: Paganini (with A. Bertieri, 1928), Quirius (1939), Athenaeum™ (with Aldo Novarese, 1945), Normandia (with Aldo Novarese, 1946–49), Rondine (1948), Augustea™ (with Aldo Novarese, 1951), Fluidum (1951), Microgramma™ (with Aldo Novarese, 1952).
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques
[...]Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt (born April 20, 1864, in Stettin, died November 24, 1941, in Stuttgart) designed the font Minister™ in 1929 for the Schriftguss foundry. The contemporary design of Minister is based on Garalde types. Minister’s letters have an oblique stress, capitals are wide, serifs are prominently concave. The font has obvious calligraphic overtones, making it a good informal text face.
Chauncey H. Griffith – born 1879 in Irontown/Ohio, USA, died 1956 in Butler/N.Y., USA – typesetter, machine compositor.
1915: – becomes assistant to the president of Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Newspaper typesetting specialist. 1936: vice president of Mergenthaler Linotype with responsibility for typographic development.
Fonts: Ionic No 5 (1926), Ionic Condensed (1927), Papst (1928–1931), Poster Bodoni™ (1929), Textype (1929), Granjon® bold (1930), Excelsior® (1931), Janson
[...]Karlgeorg Hoefer was born on February 6th, 1914 in Schlesisch-Drehnow. Following schooling in Schlesien and Hamburg, he served a four-year typesetting apprenticeship from 1930-1934 in Hamburg. After two years of military service, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Offenbach am Main and then worked in Potsdam. From 1939 until 1945 he was in active military service and was also a prisoner of the Russians.
His activities as a calligrapher began after his
[...]Designer Tim Holloway created the fonts Karim® (1994) and Mitra® (1975). Tim Holloway worked for a time at Linotype Ltd. in the UK, where he was a colleague of Fiona Ross.
Karim was designed in response to a demand for a traditional text face adapted to setting Quranic commentaries. Karim font is the standard character set version.
Within the constraints of the standard character set and typesetting program, the design aims to recall the style and fluency of manuscript Naskh
[...]Hrant Papazian (born 1968 in Beirut) is an Armenian native of Lebanon, currently living in Los Angeles. His perspective on written communication was formed at the crossroads of three competing visual cultures. A multimedia designer by trade, his true love remains the black-and-white, but colorful world of non-Latin typeface design, with commissions from Agfa, Unitype, IKEA, the Narod Cultural Institute, Disney, UCLA, the Israel Postal Authority, Liverpool University and TeX Users Group.
The American designer Edwin W. Shaar created the fonts Flash™ (1939), Futura® Script (1954), Gazette® (1977), Nuptial Script™ (app. 1952) and Okay (1939).
Walter Tracy – born 14. 2. 1914 in England, died 1995 – type designer.
1930–35: trains and works as a typesetter. 1935–38: typographer for Barnard Press. 1938–46: works for Notley Advertising. 1947: freelance designer. Works for Art & Technics publishing house which issues "Alphabet and Image" magazine, among others. 1948–78: works for Linotype England as head of the department for type development. 1973: made a Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts. Since 1978: has
[...]Rudolf Wolf – born 2. 1. 1895 in Hechingen, Germany, died 7. 9. 1942 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany – advertising manager, type designer, teacher. Studied at the university in Frankfurt am Main. Ph. D.
1922–42: works as advertising manager for D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main, where he is responsible for type design.
Font: Memphis® (1930).
Publication: "Fraktur und Antiqua", Frankfurt am Main 1934.
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout
[...]Alfred Tilp (1932–2006) completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer before studying at art academies in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, and Berlin. His major influence came from Walter Brudi in Stuttgart, and he identified himself primarily as a typographer even though he was active as a freelance artist, having also done work with computer graphics. Tilp organized numerous exhibitions and personal shows, as well as being involved with books about art and poetry. His work was published in "Baseline”
[...]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 Ute Harder created the font Marathon™ in 2003.
Marathon was originally designed by Rudolf Koch in 1931 for Schriftgiesserei Klingspor. It is a roman with short ascenders and descenders. The serifs are small, but longer at the ends of the arms of E, F and L, M is rather splayed and is without top serifs, like M in other typefeaces designed by Rudolf Koch. The lowercase g has no link and an open tail, again like the g in other Koch types. U has the lower-case design. In the W the
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Generis, Mano, Marconi, Mariam, Medici, Metro, Mistral, Mitra, Mofid Mahdi, Monticello, Morris Sans, Nami, Nazanin, Neuland, Neuzeit and Satero are trademarks of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. Aptifer, Diverda, Linotype Maral, Linotype Markin, Linotype Nautilus, Malabar, Marathon, Metroblack, Metromedium, Microgramma, Midan, Minister, Modified Gothic, Montix, Mustang, National Codes Pi, Nautilus, Neudoerffer Fraktur, News Gothic No. 2, Noa, Notre Dame, Nuptial Script, Universal MICR Pi and Universal Mathematical Pi are trademarks of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Cochin, Maximus, Melior, Memphis, Meridien, Metrolite, Noris Script, Palatino and Syntax are trademarks of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH.
Penumbra is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes.
Legacy, Officina and Stone are trademarks of International Typeface Corporation registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and which may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Sassoon is a registered trademark of Sassoon & Williams.
News Gothic is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
