Introducing a previously unknown text face from the designer of Futura
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 | For decades, Paul Renner (1878–1956) was one of Germany’s leading designers. Best known for Futura®, Paul Renner also created several other typefaces over the course of his career. Closely tied to Paul Renner’s own formal calligraphic style, Renner™ Antiqua never caught on in the same manner as Futura, despite the merits of its characters. In 2008, Patrick Strietzel revived the family, bringing this element of Paul Renner’s work to a mass audience for the first time. |
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 | In 1994, Sine Bergmann drew Linotype’s Giacometti™ Pi, a symbol font containing 62 stick figure illustrations inspired by Swiss artist Alberto_Giacometti. 14 year later, Sine expanded her font family with a display face, Giacometti Letter. A casual, Post-It-note-style of design, Giacometti Letter is a little bit on the edge. Its forms work well with the symbols from Giacometti Pi, but they also stand out well on their own in a number of circumstances, including when set in both very large and very small point sizes. The two Giacometti fonts also combine well with Linotype Festtagsfont™ and Jump™. |
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 | Linotype is pleased to introduce Georg John’s new Johnstemp™ family, a significant extension of his earlier font Linotype Tagesstempel™. Building upon the typographic language of bureaucratic stamps and seals, Johnstemp offers multiple variants for each letter. The family includes several weights – the letters have an increasing amount of “ink spread,” appearing to have been pressed more firmly against the paper – as well as a degraded, extra rough version. |
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 | Alex Rütten’s Ginkgo™ is Linotype’s newest text face. This small, four-member family is ready for use in either design applications or office settings. Heavily influenced by contemporary writing styles, the design has an affinity with late-20th-century Dutch-style serif typefaces. In a way, Gingko’s basis in pen-made strokes also makes it spiritually akin to Renner™ Antiqua, although Paul Renner and Alex Rütten each took their pens in very different directions. |
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 | Our Xmas Value Pack bundles four display fonts together that are perfect for Christmas cards and holiday party invitations; one ornamental font to create your decorations is added as well! This downloadable product is on sale this month for the low price of 29.50 USD – a savings of almost 70 USD off the normal Value Pack price. |
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 | Do you include text in electronic displays, mobile devices, or appliances? Are you a software developer creating embedded game dialogues or application menus? Linotype offers tailored solutions just for you. |
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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 in December 2008.
Your Linotype Online Team
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This newsletter may contain forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements about the product, strategic or business plans of Linotype GmbH. Various important risks and uncertainties may cause our actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by these forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the implementation of product changes, the adoption of our products by the marketplace, or our ability to obtain and enforce intellectual property protection. For a further list and description of the risks and uncertainties we face, please refer to the the filings made by our parent company, Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements; whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.
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