Best Gothic Fonts Revisited
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Introduction:
Not just one OpenType library; how about four? Announcing the most comprehensive typographic solution for professional design – Linotype’s four new OpenType collections. Available separately or together as a bundle, Linotype’s four new OpenType collections make it easy to custom build your own font library. Joining the headline stories in this issue is a spotlight on "Gothic" fonts. Industrial-era sans serif fonts from the United States, these "Gothics" are anything but scary and medieval! In contrast to these workhorses, we’d like to present our favorite font for April, Linotype Notec. This low-tech script returns type to its hand-written roots. Our last bit of news this month is a new feature we’ve brought to font family pages on our website. Now these pages include real-life samples of their typefaces in use. Roll over the images and get inspired by our typographic treats!
Have fonts of fun!
 | With a total of 2,505 comprehensive, cross-platform OpenType fonts, Linotype currently offers the largest OpenType selection available – including hundreds of Adobe’s newest fonts. Our four collections offer tremendous savings; if purchased individually, all of these fonts together would cost tens of thousands of dollars; offered as a package, the price reduces the cost per font to an astonishingly low minimum! |
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 | Sans serif fonts by another name, these no-nonsense, industrial-style 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. Not to be confused with Blackletter typefaces, which look "gothic" in a scary, medieval sort of way, these engineered forms were designed for optimal design problem solving. |
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 | Linotype Notec™ is a "low-tech" (or even "no tech!") typeface. By embracing handwriting’s spontaneity, it has gotten as far away from technology as it can.
Classified as an "inky"-style script face, Linotype Notec™ has an informal design that seems immediately artful and full of expression. Its irregular and unexpected form enlivens most compositions, similar to how jazz or modern dance animate a room. Quite full of "ink," Linotype Notec’s "strokes" are written in a sort of short-note-handwriting style, which a slow-writing, thoughtful humanist might theoretically scribble to himself late at night. Yet Linotype Notec’s character still maintains a jolt of energy; try Linotype Notec in small applications, in any size from 12-point on up. |
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 | Real-life font samples and the font pages themselves – together at last The font family pages at Linotype.com are your central point for testing and selecting fonts. Now we’ve made reviewing fonts easier than ever. Real-life, inspiring samples of our fonts in use are now directly available on the font family pages themselves. These samples are also navigable in their section of the website, "Fonts in Use." Take a look at the samples we have in store for you on our Wiesbaden Swing™ family page, or pieces designed with Zapfino™, or the classic favorite, Neue Helvetica™. |
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Our popular rubric "Designer’s Collected Works" offers a direct overview of all available typefaces from selected type designers. On our "Special Offers page you may find sensational savings on various font packages.
 | Presentations of the complete Linotype portfolio of specific designers: Know all the fonts of Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger already? |
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 | Font Packs for all needs at the lowest prices! Selected packages are available for both beginners and professionals. |
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We hope you found this issue of the LinoLetter informative and useful. We highly appreciate your feedback at info@linotype.com
The next issue of this newsletter will be published and dropped in your mailbox at the beginning of May.
Your Linotype Online Team
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