Introduction
Voici l’occasion rêvée pour revoir les plus belles fontes Linotype des dix dernières années ; « revoir » est certainement le terme qui convient, car ces dessins font partie de votre environnement visuel depuis déjà quelque temps.
Depuis la fin des années 90, Linotype a enrichi le marché de nouveaux caractères qui ont changé la façon dont le monde communique. Nombreuses sont nos fontes installées sur les ordinateurs du monde entier, certaines sont même devenues
[...]Agilita™ is a new humanistic sanserif typeface designed by Jürgen Weltin. The mulitilingual OpenType font family has rather classical proportions, to give it more distinct word shapes through clear descenders and ascenders.
This new face has a dynamic, yet strong and very functional appearance with a fine but clear emphasis on the horizontals.
The classical approach of Agilita makes it a versatile typeface for largescale textsetting but it can also be used in complex information design
[...]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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Comme la très populaire Compatil®, le système de caractères Generis de Linotype est une matrice de quatre familles de fontes. Les graisses Generis Serif, Generis Sans, Generis Simple et Generis Slab sont quadruplexes pour chaque style de caractère. Ainsi vous pouvez changer tout volume de texte composé dans un style de Generis en un autre, sans affecter l’enroulement des lignes. Par exemple, vous pouvez souligner quelques mots d’un texte composé en Generis Serif à l’aide de Generis Simple,
[...]Capturez les esprits d’Halloween avec ces 33 fontes sinistres !
Ces fontes sont faites pour vous ! Que vous organisiez une soirée, cherchiez une maison hantée ou que vous vouliez simplement créer une atmosphère macabre.
L’Halloween Value Pack contient cinq superbes fontes à un tarif unique et avantageux. Y figurent également trois polices de caractères effrayantes et deux fontes Pi terrifiantes !
Nous proposons également beaucoup d’autres graisses individuelles.
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Voici une sélection de fontes que nous venons de redécouvrir. De véritables pépites. Vous en connaissez peut-être déjà certaines … mais êtes-vous sûr que vous les connaissez toutes ?
Nous espérons que vous apprécierez cette sélection !
Formes pures, classicisme et simplicité : la famille Aeonis signée Erik Faulhaber
Après Generis™, Aeonis™ est la deuxième grande famille de polices créée par Erik Faulhaber. La lettre grecque lapidaire créée au neuvième siècle avant JC a servi de modèle à la forme de base sans empattement d’Aeonis. La forme ouverte de la majuscule A est typique de cette fonte qui est souvent utilisée parce qu’elle est claire. Les courbes d’Aeonis s’inspirent d’un plafonnier conçu par le
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Choisissez les fontes dont vous avez besoin pour votre logiciel Microsoft Office en visitant notre site Internet, qui vous propose plus de 9 000 fontes originales et de haute qualité, de la plus classique à la plus tendance. Ici, vous trouverez toutes les fontes classiques originales les plus célèbres, comme Helvetica®, Frutiger® ou Univers®, aainsi qu’une bibliothèque en constante expansion, pleine de polices innovantes et inédites, en arrivage direct des ateliers de
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Choisissez les fontes dont vous avez besoin pour votre logiciel Microsoft Office en visitant notre site Internet, qui vous propose plus de 9 000 fontes originales et de haute qualité, de la plus classique à la plus tendance. Ici, vous trouverez toutes les fontes classiques originales les plus célèbres, comme Helvetica®, Frutiger® ou Univers®, ainsi qu’une bibliothèque en constante expansion, pleine de polices innovantes et inédites, en arrivage direct des ateliers de
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Les vrais caractères utilisés dans les trois alphabets officiels de l’Union Européenne. Avec l’adhésion de la Bulgarie en janvier 2007, le cyrillique vient compléter les deux autres alphabets (latin et grec) utilisés dans l’UE.
Les fontes originales de Linotype qui portent la mention « W1G » complètent le jeu de caractères et respectent la norme Linotype W1G (World Glyph 1).
Découvrez les langues qui prennent en charge les fontes W1G (Fichier pdf
[...]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
[...]Bizarre and naked, sans serif alphabets joined the ranks of typefaces in the early 19th century when an English type foundry produced the first sans serif typeface in 1816.
But between 1810 and 1840, bold antiqua weights inspired by Bodoni and the newly developed slab serif linear antiqua typefaces were still more prominent and widely used in advertisements.
Even the creator of the first sans serif typeface, William Caslon, was not immediately convinced of the success of this new kind
[...]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
[...]Fontes Sans Serif
The first drawings from Jürgen Weltin to be used for digitizing Agilita™ began early in 2000.
