Whether Garamond, Baskerville or Bodoni, many of the typefaces produced during the 20th century were revivals of centuries-old models. Not so of Palatino: Hermann Zapf´s new design is an interpretation of our own time.
Designed between 1948 and 1950, Palatino was first released as in lead type form by the German typefoundry D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt, and quickly became one of the world´s most popular typefaces. Palatino was thereafter altered for use on the Linotype machine and in photo-type
[...]The Gudrun and Hermann Zapf Collection is a special edition with the largest collection of typefaces from the designers Gudrun and Hermann Zapf. The collection covers a wide range of styles and includes everything from extensive text type families to decorative handwriting types to diverse special characters. Among the highlights of this collection are world famous type families like Palatino®, Optima®, Diotima® and the popular Linotype Zapfino®.
The Gudrun and Hermann Zapf
[...]Available as Value Pack for instant download or on CD with physical shipping
Linotype Zapf Essentials™ is the modernized version of Zapf Dingbats and was designed by Hermann Zapf himself. Over 372 characters and symbols are included within six fonts and make life a little more communicative, a little more informative, and a lot more interesting. The fonts contain symbols for both professional and everyday uses. With their markers, ornaments and arrows they are informative as well as
[...]The idea to develop a new typeface tailored to the special requirements of annual reports was born out of the "First Heidelberg Forum for Annual Reports 1988".
The challenge was to provide a type system that delivered readability and multiple tonality while maintaining harmony throughout the wide range of different characters required in an annual report.
Linotype worked closely together with Professor Olaf Leu and his Analyse Team at the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, who have
[...]70 ans de caractères ! La grande histoire du couple Zapf et du graphisme
Retour sur une carrière – message délivré par Hermann Zapf en personne !
The Gudrun and Hermann Zapf Collection is a special edition with the largest collection of typefaces from the designers Gudrun and Hermann Zapf. The collection covers a wide range of styles and includes everything from extensive text type families to decorative handwriting types to diverse special characters. Among the highlights of this collection are world famous type families like Palatino, Optima, Diotima and the popular Linotype Zapfino.
The Gudrun and Hermann Zapf Collection also
[...]Le jour où Ottmar Mergenthaler a présenté sa première fondeuse en ligne-blocs au New York Tribune, en 1886, Whitelaw Reid, le rédacteur en chef était ravi : « Ottmar », dit-il, « vous avez fondé une ligne de caractères ! ». Les mots de l’éditeur formèrent la base de la marque de la société et marquèrent les débuts de la réussite de Linotype. Quatre ans plus tard, l’inventeur ingénieux fonda la Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Il ne se doutait pas qu’après plus d’un
[...]Linotype Zapf Essentials™ are digital dingbats and ornaments designed for everday use and as the name says, you just have to have them! There are endless possibilities for their use, as the font contains 372 signs with a variety of current, updated symbols for telephones, cell phones, telefax and e-mail. Linotype Zapf Essentials™ feature a number of special characteristics. Besides masculine hands there are also gentler ladies' pointers. (In the old days only men´s hands were available, mostly
[...]Chaque jour, une nouvelle inspiration – les nouvelles affiches Font Badges
Cette nouvelle série d’affiches présente près de 1 000 exemples d’utilisation des fontes Linotype. Chaque affiche Font Badge comprend 243 images pleines d’inspiration d’utilisations de fontes Linotype. Ci-dessous, quelques exemples. Accrochez-les dans votre bureau, à proximité de votre ordinateur, et restez inspiré, chaque jour !
Get your OpenType Essentials today; save up to 75% on individual font prices. A creative selection of OpenType fonts covering the Typographic spectrum.
Each essential package contains 60 OpenType fonts for Mac and PC available on CD or for download.
OpenType Essentials 1
OpenType Essentials 2
OpenType Essentials 3
* (with voucher codes from Page, Novum, Étapes, Eye, Graphicus, Applicando and CAP & Design)
Building blocks toward your new type library &ndash 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
[...]Update of Linotype’s premiere collection
The GoldEdition is the most comprehensive product of Linotype and contains all important typefaces available through Linotype. They can be used immediately without an unlocking code.
The new GoldEdition 1.7.1 provides all 3,900 fonts from this highly desirable collection with Mac OS X compatibility, including for the recently introduced "Tiger" version, Mac OS 10.4. Further enhancements include the postscript format for nearly all fonts, a
[...]125 high quality fonts covering most of your needs
Need the classics? Then the Linotype Essentials 1 is the right choice. It contains 125 of the typefaces which have proven themselves for decades and even centuries.
The highlights of this collection include the successful Neue Helvetica®, Times® Ten, Linotype Centennial® and Bauer Bodoni®, the ever-popular Futura®, Univers® and Frutiger®, plus the Optima®, the Gill® and three weights of the popular Künstler
[...]164 high quality fonts to complete your Essentials
Linotype Essentials 2 includes 164 specially selected fonts chosen for the beauty and style of their design. Their popularity makes them some of the most important typefaces of the Linotype Library. Among them are Linotype Ergo™, Eurostile®, ITC Franklin Gothic®, Sabon®, ITC Stone®, Tekton™ and Linotype Zapfino®.
If the font collection Linotype Essentials 1 already builds the basic for your professional font library, the typefaces
[...]
A selection of typefaces fromITC Library OpenType Edition
60 high quality OpenType fonts, each handpicked from the Linotype library.
The OpenType Essentials is a series of must-have packages of typefaces from Linotype, ITC, and Monotype that have proved successful, as well as typefaces that are particularly visually appealing. These packages are extremely useful: each product combines serif and sans serif typefaces, display faces, script faces, historical typefaces, and even symbol fonts. A single package offers a keystone that allows users to test
[...]60 high quality OpenType fonts, each handpicked from the Linotype library.
The OpenType Essentials is a series of must-have packages of typefaces from Linotype, ITC, and Monotype that have proved successful, as well as typefaces that are particularly visually appealing. These packages are extremely useful: each product combines serif and sans serif typefaces, display faces, script faces, historical typefaces, and even symbol fonts. A single package offers a keystone that allows users to test
[...]60 high quality OpenType fonts, each handpicked from the Linotype library.
The OpenType Essentials is a series of must-have packages of typefaces from Linotype, ITC, and Monotype that have proved successful, as well as typefaces that are particularly visually appealing. These packages are extremely useful: each product combines serif and sans serif typefaces, display faces, script faces, historical typefaces, and even symbol fonts. A single package offers a keystone that allows users to test
[...]
A selection of typefaces fromThe Linotype Originals OpenType Edition Collection 2.0
Une sélection de fontes tirées de laLinotype GoldEdition 2.0
Une sélection de fontes tirées de laOpenType Classics Collection
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
[...]Available as Value Pack for instant download or on CD with physical shipping
Linotype Zapf Essentials® is the modernized version of Zapf Dingbats and was designed by Hermann Zapf himself. Over 372 characters and symbols are included within six fonts and make life a little more communicative, a little more informative, and a lot more interesting. The fonts contain symbols for both professional and everyday uses. With their markers, ornaments and arrows they are informative as well as
[...]Documentation, longueur 47 minutes
Un film réalisé par Christoph Frutiger et Christine Kopp
Adrian Frutiger est l’un des dessinateurs de caractères les plus éminents de notre époque. D’origine suisse, il est né le 24 mai 1928 à Interlaken, au cœur de la région du Bernese Oberland. Après avoir vécu 40 ans à Paris, il est revenu dans son pays natal et vit actuellement à Berne. Adrian Frutiger a créé plus de trente fontes, y compris les familles de fontes Méridien, Univers et Frutiger, connues
[...]Cet ouvrage rend hommage au travailleur en équipe et à l’artiste solo des caractères, à son créateur oublié et à tous ceux qui ont contribué à sa marche triomphale internationale sans précédent au cours des quarante dernières années.
Les dessins rassemblées ici en l’honneur d’Helvetica ont été créés par des dessinateurs éminents et des amateurs anonymes du monde entier. Ils présentent une panoplie unique de cette icône du design moderne.
Helvetica n’est pas seulement la fonte préférée de
[...]This book sings the praises of the shift worker and solo entertainer of typefaces, of its forgotten creator and all those who have contributed to its unparalleled international march of triumph over the past forty years.
The designs gathered together here in honor of Helvetica have been created by superb designers and anonymous amateurs from all over the world. They present a unique panoply of this icon of modern design.
Helvetica is not only the preferred typeface of leading professionals,
[...]L’auteur Antonia Henschel démontre ici qu’il y a bien plus à découvrir dans le monde des mots en quatre lettres que les insultes, les invectives et les blagues salaces. Les mots en quatre lettres couvrent un champ bien plus vaste ...
Design experiments with Goudy Text™, Linotype Killer™, Zapfino™.
Author Antonia Henschel demonstrates that there are a lot more different things to discover in the field of four-letter-words than insults, imprecations and dirty jokes. The spectrum covered by just the four letters is considerably bigger ...
This is the second issue of the Linotype Matrix since its successful relaunch in Fall 2005. It offers an exciting and informative look at typography in history – with a thematic focus on the great 20th century type designer William Addison Dwiggins. Within the 64 pages of this richly illustrated issue readers will find articles contributed by some of the best talents working in typography today. For example: writer and typographer John D. Berry explores the legacy of the Deberny & Peignot type
[...]Un projet issu de la coopération de Linotype GmbH, Bad Homburg et de l’Université des sciences appliquées de Wiesbaden. Pendant deux semestres, sous l’égide du Professeur Guido Ludes et de Stefanie Weber, designer certifiée, les étudiants de l’université des sciences appliquées de Wiesbaden ont expérimenté une sélection de fontes de Linotype. Les résultats de cette recherche typographique sont présentés en trytype, allant des graphiques linéaires en noir et blanc, jusqu’aux univers
[...]Pour avoir un aperçu de cet ouvrage au style hilarant et aux illustrations superbes, jetez un œil à quelques pages extraites de « A Line of Type » et commandez votre exemplaire dès aujourd’hui !
To get an impression of the hilariously written and lavishly illustrated book, take a look at some sample pages from “A Line of Type” and order your copy today!
Helevetica, le film – Désormais sur DVD !
À propos du film
Helvetica est un long-métrage indépendant portant sur la typographie, les arts graphiques et la culture visuelle mondiale. Il analyse l’omniprésence croissante d’une police de caractère (qui célèbre son 50ème anniversaire en 2007) dans le cadre d’une conversation plus large sur le rôle de la typographie dans nos vies. Ce film consiste à la fois en une exploration des espaces urbains de plusieurs grandes villes et des
[...]A typographical journal published from time to time by Linotype.
A few sample pages from the magazine – For a larger view please click on the images.
This is the second issue of the Linotype Matrix since its successful relaunch in Fall 2005. It offers an exciting and informative look at typography in history – with a thematic focus on the great 20th century type designer William Addison Dwiggins. Within the 64 pages of this richly illustrated issue readers will find articles contributed by some of the best talents working in typography today. For example: writer and typographer John D. Berry explores the legacy of the Deberny & Peignot type
[...]The following pages present the book’s versatile qualities.
These sample pages are availabe as pdf file (1,4 mb).
Font list of Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection, including all single weights)
Alcuin® (light, light Caps, regular, regular Caps, bold, bold Caps, extra bold, extra bold Caps)
Aldus® (roman, roman SC, italic, italic OsF, roman)
Ariadne®
Aurelia™ (light, light italic, book, book italic, bold)
Carmina® (light, light italic, medium, medium italic, bold, bold italic, black, black italic)
Colombine® T (light, regular, medium, bold)
Diotima® (roman, roman
[...]Giovanbattista Palatino, after whom the Palatino typefaces are named, was a writing master of the 16th century in Rome. His work inspired Hermann Zapf, although none of Hermann Zapf´s typefaces could be said to be literal revivals of Giovanbattista Palatino´s letters. Yet many of the characteristics of the Palatino typefaces, such as its open counterforms and overall legibility, are certainly themes that had previously inspired Renaissance lettering. The Palatino typefaces´classical proportions
[...]The need to read and absorb information quickly and easily has never been greater.
The amount of information available to us, either on paper or on screen, grows daily. It is essential to have a typeface that is both extremely legible as well as aesthetically pleasing.
Linotype´s Compatil is the first type system that incorporates such a comprehensive range of typographic features, delivering optimal legibility and design potential.
The metric and visual concept that is used for
[...]Font list of Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection, including all single weights)
Alcuin (light, light Caps, regular, regular Caps, bold, bold Caps, extra bold, extra bold Caps)
Aldus (roman, roman SC, italic, italic OsF, roman)
Ariadne
Aurelia (light, light italic, book, book italic, bold)
Carmina (light, light italic, medium, medium italic, bold, bold italic, black, black italic)
Colombine T (light, regular, medium, bold)
Diotima (roman, roman SC, roman OsF, italic, italic
[...]
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[...]Les pages suivantes présentent les qualités polyvalentes de ce livre.
Les pages d’échantillon sont disponibles sous format pdf (1,4 mb).
