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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 [...]
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!
Introduction
Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world. From the submitted public corporations who published their 2005 annual reports in early 2006, Manager Magazin released their jury’s favorites in the October 2006 issue.
Manager Magazin picked the top ten annual reports in six different business categories, and their jury selected an overall top ten as well. Virtually every [...]
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
Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world. From the submitted public corporations who published their 2006 annual reports in early 2007, Manager Magazin released their jury’s favorites in the October 2007 issue.
Manager Magazin picked the top ten annual reports in six different business categories, and their jury selected an overall top ten as well. Virtually every [...]
Customers from all over the world come to Linotype.com every day to purchase fonts. Below is a list of the 20 typeface families that our customers licensed most often in during 2008. Do you know them all?
Linotype Compatil® is the first comprehensive type system which enables all typographical elements to be used to full effect in order to reproduce the message conveyed by text information. Four different type styles with a total of 16 weights have been merged into a unique typographical network. There are now no limits to the font user's creativity.
The system is a product of technical innovation and constitutes a new design approach which meets the highest aesthetic standards.
For [...]
Rudo Spemann – born 22. 4. 1905 in Würzburg, Germany, died 11. 7. 1947 in Shepetovka, USSR – calligrapher, artist, teacher.
1924–30: studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich (under F. H. Ehmcke and Emil Preetorius) and at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart (under F. H. E. Schneidler). 1930–35: is Schneidler’s assistant at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart. 1935–37: freelance graphic artist in Munich. 1937–39: lecturer at the Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. The city of [...]
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® [...]
The designer Victor Caruso created the fonts ITC Bauhaus® (with Edward Benguiat, 1975), ITC Clearface®, ITC Franklin Gothic™, ITC Friz Quadrata bold, Friz Quadrata™ and ITC Kabel®.
Friedrich Karl Sallwey – born 16. 10. 1918 in Langen, Germany, died August 11, 2005 – graphic artist, type designer.
1937–39 and 1941–42: studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach. 1948: works at the Bauersche Gießerei as Heinrich Jost´s assistant. From 1951 onwards: freelance graphic artist in Frankfurt am Main.
Fonts: Information (1955), Present® (1974), Sallwey Script™ (1979), Roundy™ (1992).
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout [...]
Ong Chong Wah (born 1955 in Malaysia) created the fonts Abadi® (1987), Bookman Old Style™ (2005), Delima™ (1993), Footlight® (1986), Mahsuri Sans, Ocean Sans® (1993).
These fonts are part of the Monotype Library OpenType Edition.
Robin Nicholas’s early training as an apprentice draftsman let his natural artistic talent fuse with the accuracy and attention to detail required in technical drawing. Typeface design is a similar blend of right- and left-brain activities. Happily for those of us who use fonts, Nicholas’s career path took a turn when he joined the Monotype Type Drawing Office in 1965.
After a period of training at Monotype, Nicholas’s first projects involved redrawing master artwork for typefaces licensed [...]
Patricia Saunders created the fonts Arial® (1982, with Robin Nicholas), Columbus® (1992, with David Saunders) and Monotype Corsiva®.
These fonts are part of the Monotype Library OpenType Edition.
Olaf Leu was born in Chemnitz in 1936. He apprenticed as a typesetter and typographic designer in the art department of the Bauer type foundry. Later, he worked as the assistant to the creative director at the Hanns W. Brose advertising agency in Frankfurt am Main.
In 1959, he began his career as a freelance graphic designer and art director. In 1971, he founded the studio “Olaf Leu Design” in Frankfurt am Main, which became known as “Olaf Leu Design und Partner” in 1976. The studio remained [...]
David Berlow’s career in type has been a continual mix of the traditional and cutting edge. He entered the world of type design in 1978 as a letter designer for the Mergenthaler Linotype type foundry one of the oldest, still operating type foundries. After working for Linotype for four years, he was then one of the first employees of the newly formed digital type supplier, Bitstream, Inc. Berlow left Bitstream in 1989, to found his own company, The Font Bureau, with Roger Black.
Berlow [...]
Franklin Gothic® is one of the most popular sans serif fonts ever produced. It was designed by the famous type designer Morris Fuller Benton in 1903–12. The font was named for Benjamin Franklin.
As one of the nearly widely used sans serif typefaces Franklin Gothic® is even today a standard choice for use in newspapers and advertising. It is also frequently seen in posters, placards and anyplace with space restrictions.
ITC Franklin Gothic® is available as Value Pack for instant download for [...]
Basic Commercial is a font based on historical designs from the hot metal typeface era. It first appeared around 1900, and was created by type designers whose names have not been recorded but whose skills cannot be overlooked. This typeface's design has been popular among groups and movements as diverse as the Bauhaus, Dadaism, and the masters of Swiss/International-Style typography. It influenced for a variety of later grotesque fonts, such as Helvetica and Univers.
Basic Commercial was [...]
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 [...]
Take a look at some sample pages of Gildemeister’s Annual Report 2005
– For a larger view please click on the images –
Take a look at some sample pages of Gildemeister’s Annual Report 2006
– For a larger view, please click on the images –
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Typographic Tip of the Month from Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi!
July 2006: It’s in the Mix!
When one is using more than one typeface within a design, a simple guideline should be observed: the typefaces should not be too similar to one another, but rather exhibit a certain contrast. This adds a layer of suspense and diversification to the overall piece.
Sample 1: A large headline, followed by three [...]
Interactive media – screen pages that are easy to read
Font Designer: Rudo Spemann, 1940
Spemann's style was unmistakable, marked by original ideas and completely new forms and ideas.
His tendency toward the unusual and adventurous resulted in unique, decorative characters.
When he wrote, the tip of his pen flew across the page, leaving behind rows of letters which displayed an almost unbelievable regularity of form and flow.
There was no need for corrections or even improvements to his subtle, classical characters; the beautifully [...]
Font Designer: Friedrich K. Sallwey, 1974/1990
Due to the huge popularity of Present® font, Linotype decided to build a complete family out of the font. Five additional weights have been designed together with Friedrich Karl Sallwey. Three condensed weights have been added, where only the lower case letters have been redesigned and condensed. The upper case letters are the same as in the regular weights.
Present font is a perfect face for all greeting cards or for plaques and adds a [...]
Font Designer: Morris F. Benton, 1904
Franklin Gothic™ font was designed in 1904 by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company and served as the American Grotesk prototype. The robust character of the font gives text a modern feel. Franklin Gothic font remains one of the most widely used sans serif typefaces even today.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Platinum Collection Fonts
Basic Commercial and Gavotte are trademarks of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Compatil and Present are trademarks of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
ITC Franklin Gothic is a trademark of International Typeface Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Abadi and Arial are trademarks of The Monotype Corporation registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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