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.
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?
Frederic William Goudy – born 8. 3. 1865 in Bloomington, USA, died 11. 5. 1947 in Malborough-on-Hudson, USA – type designer, typographer, publisher, teacher.
1888: book-keeper for credit and mortgage companies. 1889: moves to Chicago, works in real estate. 1892: launches "Modern Advertising" magazine which issues only a few numbers. 1895: opens a print workshop in Chicago and prints the "American Chap-Book". 1897: designs his first type, Camelot Old Style. Produces typographical designs for
[...]Sumner Stone – born 9. 6. 1945 in Venice, Florida, USA – type designer, graphic designer.
1966: studies at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Takes calligraphy lessons with Lloyd Reynolds. Then works as a type designer for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for two years. 1972: opens his type studio, Alpha and Omega Press, in Sonoma, California. At the same time he studies mathematics at Sonoma State University. 1979: works for Autologic Inc. in Boston as director of typography. He later holds the
[...]The contemporary New York letter and type designer Tony Stan was born 1917 and died 1988. He created the following fonts: ITC American Typewriter™ (1974, with Joel Kaden), ITC Garamond™ (1977), ITC Cheltenham® (1978), ITC Century® (1980), ITC Berkeley Old Style™ (1983).
Designer Steve Matteson created the fonts Andale® Mono, Andy™, Blueprint™, Curlz® (1995), Fineprint™, Kidprint™ and Truesdell.
Early on, Matteson planned a career in printing management, but a college job editing font bitmaps quickly changed his mind. That’s when he discovered the world of typeface design and font technology, an irresistibly fascinating convergence of left- and right-brain processes. Sensitively designed letters and their digital representations soon became
[...]Jim Rimmer (1934–2010) was a type designer, printer and publisher. His background covered a bit of ground: from some years in hot metal type in the composing room, and in the operation of the linotype and the Monotype, of which he still had a large and active collection of differing machine models. In 2000 and 2001 he completed two hot metal faces and has recently finished a third; Hannibal Oldstyle for the printing of the book: Tom Sawyer in 2006.
His experience in graphic design
[...] Old English Value Pack for instant download available
Blackletter typefaces evolved out of Northern Europe's medieval manuscript tradition. Grouped into four sub-families (Textura, Fraktur, Bastarda, and Rotunda), this style of type is characterized by the wide-nibbed pen strokes that are make its letterforms. Often heavy, these strokes leave a “black” color on the page. The German term for Blackletter, gebrochene Schriften, or "broken type", is also a helpful term to remember while
[...]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
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ITC Berkeley Old Style is a trademark of International Typeface Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
ITC Goudy Sans is a trademark of International Typeface Corporation registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and which may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Hadriano, Italian Old Style and Scripps College Old Style are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Goudy, Goudy Old Style, Goudy Text, MT and MT Goudy are trademarks of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
