LinoLetter 2007/01

! Welcome to the Current Issue of the LinoLetter !

Introduction:

2007 is upon us, and we are celebrating the New Year with a bang! Linotype is pleased to present the new Palatino Sans typeface families for the first time, right here in the LinoLetter. Conceived and designed by the renowned designer and calligrapher Prof. Hermann Zapf as a companion to his classic Palatino family, the debut of these new corresponding sans serif versions really are an occasion to be festive. Therefore, all customers who make any purchase at Linotype.com through the end of February will receive a test weight of this new design absolutely free! But these aren’t the only new elements at Linotype.com for January. In addition to more than 750 Monotype typeface families, ten new Arabic fonts are now available from our store as well. Read on for more information!

Have fonts of fun!

In this Issue: A free font with every purchase – Introducing the new Palatino Sans Now available at Linotype.com – More than 750 Monotype typefaces to choose from New Arabic typefaces from Linotype The premier font technology conference returns in April – TypoTechnica 2007 Award-winning annual reports use the Compatil Type System A free font with every purchase – Introducing the new Palatino Sans For more than half a century, Prof. Hermann Zapf has been designing typefaces that have helped define how our world communicates. Now we are pleased to present his newest series of families, Palatino™ Sans and Palatino Sans Informal. An extension of the Palatino idea, which was first made manifest in 1950, these groundbreaking sans serif typefaces offer another interpretation of the sans serif genre. Whether set alone or used in combination with each other or the Palatino, Palatino Linotype, or Palatino nova typefaces, Prof. Zapf’s new font families bring a new level of subtlety to typography. In celebration of the release of these new families, customers who make any purchase at Linotype.com through February 28, 2007, will receive Palatino Sans Informal Light as a test font – absolutely free! Explore the two brand new Palatino Sans families online! Now available at Linotype.com – More than 750 Monotype typefaces to choose from The Monotype library is now available from Linotype’s webshop. Acquiring Linotype in August 2006, Monotype Imaging is a global leader in fonts and font technologies for graphic professionals, software developers, and manufacturers of printers and display devices. The Monotype Original collection brings a number of widely used options to Linotype customers, such as Gill Sans™ Pro, and the Rotis™ families in OpenType format! Many new ITC faces are available as well. Surf through these new offerings. New Arabic typefaces from Linotype We’ve just added seven new and contemporary Arabic typefaces to our library! Some of them were winners in Linotype’s first Arabic Type Design Contest, which was held in 2005. But all of them speak best for themselves: Firas™, Hakim Ghazali™, Insan™, Isra™, Midan™, Sultan Free, and Sultan Nahia. Try out these new Arabic typefaces today! The premier font technology conference returns in April – TypoTechnica 2007 Linotype is pleased to announce its fourth TypoTechnica conference, to be held on April 27–28, 2007. TypoTechnica is renowned as the premier platform bringing together typeface designers, font developers, and software technicians. Panels of industry leaders will present on topics ranging from new font technologies to file formats. All events will be hosted in downtown Frankfurt, Germany. Click here for more conference information. Award-winning annual reports use the Compatil Type System In October 2006, Germany’s “Manager Magazin” announced the results of its 2005 annual report competition. This contest brought the annual reports of the top stock-market-listed companies from German-speaking countries before the eyes of a renowned panel of jurists. Sixty companies from various sectors were honored with prizes. Seven of these companies chose Linotype’s Compatil Type System for their annual report’s text – including three of the companies whose reports made it into the overall top ten! See more detailed results, and images from winning annual reports, on our website.

The Font Cloud Experience a new dimension of font searching – browse through the font cloud at Linotype.com! Each typeface family name appears at a different size. The relation of these sizes to each other is determined by the rate each of these families is viewed online! Find the world’s favorite typefaces in a single glance. Easy Access to Corporate Type At Linotype.com, your corporation have have its own download section, where employees may securely obtain the exact fonts they need! Check out our CorporateType Download section for more infomation.

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 in February 2007. Your Linotype Online Team

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