| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Customers from all over the world come to Linotype.com every day to purchase the fonts they need for business and for fun. more ... | | Date: | December 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | The ITC Franklin™ typeface design marks the next phase in the evolution of one of the most important American gothic typefaces. more ... | | Date: | December 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Years ago, one of our Germany typeface designers created a symbol font family called Linotype Tagesstempel™. more ... | | Date: | November 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Both born in 1918 in Germany, the Zapfs are one of the most productive working couples in design. more ... | | Date: | October 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Back in the 1960’s and 70’s Hermann did several exclusive typefaces for Hallmark Cards. As a side project, Hallmark commissioned a video of Hermann explaining the basics of calligraphy and how he worked. more ... | | Date: | October 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | For the occasion of his 90th Birthday, Hermann Zapf has written a statement he wanted to share with you! Here he takes a look back at how he began with type design and his amazing 70 year relationship with Linotype. more ... | | Date: | October 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Scare up some Halloween spirits with these spooky styled fonts! No matter if you are throwing a costume party, advertising for a haunted house, or just trying create a ghoulish atmosphere, these fonts are guaranteed to be just what you need! more ... | | Date: | October 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | The fab English designer Sebastian Lester created the Neo Sans and Neo Tech typeface families for Monotype Imaging in 2004. more ... | | Date: | September 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Remember the first time you saw Optima, Diotima, or Zapfino? Which famed design do you like best or use the most? more ... | | Date: | September 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Here, we have collected together our most popular Chinese-styled typefaces. These designs all have the impression of brushed letters and will work for a wide range of products and clients looking for typography with a bit of Asian vitality. more ... | | Date: | August 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | No sand required to enjoy this collection of Beach Party-themed fonts. These designs conjure up images ranging from 1960s surfers to tiki huts to DJs playing techno music in a sandpit. more ... | | Date: | June 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | As the name implies, Linotype Syntax™ Serif is an addition to Hans Eduard Meier’s famous Syntax type family. more ... | | Date: | June 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Summer is here, and this means time for sports! ! The European Soccer Championships and baseball are in full swing, and the Olympics in Beijing are coming up in a few weeks. more ... | | Date: | June 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Help celebrate Adrian Frutiger’s 80th birthday!
Born in 1928 near Interlaken, Switzerland, Adrian Frutiger is one of the predominant figures in twentieth century European design.more ... | | Date: | May 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Adrian Frutiger has spent decades working very closely with Linotype. In the many years of this fruitful collaboration, we’ve accumulated a number of photographs of Adrian Frutiger. more ... | | Date: | May 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Bank Gothic was a typeface released in 1930 by the American Type Founders (ATF). Morris Fuller Benton, ATF’s chief designer, created the family. atf Bank Gothic was a family of five types: Light, Medium, Bold, Condensed Light, and Condensed Medium. more ... | | Date: | April 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Like the very popular Compatil®, Linotype’s Generis Type System is a matrix of four typeface families. Generis Serif, Generis Sans, Generis Simple, and Generis Slab’s weights are quadraplexed across each type stye. more ... | | Date: | March 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | What are the thinnest hairline fonts available at Linotype.com, and what do they look like? We created an article in the Linotype Matrix to help show you! more ... | | Date: | March 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | The Linotype webshop includes several extended OpenType families ready to set volumes of texts. Many of them were created by Monotype Design Studio. more ... | | Date: | January 2008 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | In the old days, before it was easy for designers and shop owners to quickly generate signs and price displays with the help of computers, printers, and plotters, many shop signs were hand-painted by sign writers. more ... | | Date: | December 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Christmas comes but once a year – over a dozen holiday fonts added to our webshop. more ... | | Date: | November 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Now is a great time to get reacquainted with the best Linotype faces from the last 10 years; reaquaint is certainly the best word, as you’ve already gotten to know these designs in your visual enviroment for some time. more ... | | Date: | November 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world. more ... | | Date: | November 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Get to know Morris Fuller Benton’s work, and some of the designers he inspired. more ... | | Date: | Juli 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | 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. more ... | | Date: | July 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Claude Garamond cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. more ... | | Date: | May 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Geometric types – more than just the sum of their parts. more ... | | Date: | May 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | A new industrial-strength corporate typeface family. more ... | | Date: | March 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Spring and time for celebration – take a look at our Easter font selection. more ... | | Date: | March 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | William Addison Dwiggins was the first great type designer to work for the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. in New York. more ... | | Date: | February 2006 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Every year the German business magazine “Manager Magazin” holds a competition to determine the best annual reports published in the German-speaking world. more ... | | Date: | January 2007 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | 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. more ... | | Date: | December 2006 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | The Linotype Office Alliance collection not only guarantees data clarity, but its fonts lend a bit of personalization to cubicle life as well. more ... | | Date: | November 2006 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | The need for bold type related to what might be described as the growth of non-linearity in graphic design, which reflected new ways of thinking about the design of texts. more ... | | Date: | July 2006 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | 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. more ... | | Date: | May 2006 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | These 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. more ... | | Date: | April 2006 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Linotype Mano is not only nimble and quick, it also retains its legibility as a text font.
It is as dynamic, brisk and casual as contemporary pop music.more ... | | Date: | June 2005 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Dynamic, functional, and unencumbered by the past, Linotype Veto has no frills but everything that makes a font suitable for modern use. more ... | | Date: | April 2005 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Typography as the highest from of visual communication. A talk with Adrian Frutiger. more ... | | Date: | November 2004 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Famous font designer Adrian Frutiger is the author of this exciting essay about history and development of linear, sans serif types. more ... | | Date: | July 2004 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | A short overview about the meaning of “Old English Fonts”. more ... | | Date: | January 2004 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | OpenType has been around for five years now and is widely used for rendering complex scripts like Arabic, but also offers rich typographic controls to Latin script designers. more ... | | Date: | March 2003 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | The Dada movement: beginning, development and present importance. more ... | | Date: | November 2002 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | The biography of Jan Tschichold, one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century. more ... | | Date: | April 2002 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | In indepth look at the typeface style that defined the 20th century.
For this feature, a German version is available.more ... | | Date: | February 2002 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Everything there is to know about this remarkable style of art and typography. more ... | | Date: | November 2001 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | A look at the Arabic Fonts in the Linotype Library: Special features and requirements; detailed descriptions of the various Arabic typefaces. more ... | | Date: | September 2001 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Take a look at the typefaces of the Roaring ’20s. more ... | | Date: | May 2001 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | This Linotype feature is truly exceptional, a look at the most important developments in the private and professional life of Adrian Frutiger. more ... | | Date: | June 2000 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Linotype presents a look at the intricate art of calligraphy, written by the internationally known expert, Gottfried Pott.
For this feature, a German version is available.more ... | | Date: | November 1999 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | Written by the typographer himself exclusively for Linotype. more ... | | Date: | August 1999 |
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| Feature: | |  | | Info: | A Linotype feature about one of the most innovative type creations of the modern age. more ... | | Date: | May 1998 |
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