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Abril Text and Abril Display: the perfect team for editorial uses
Designed specifically for text and display applications, Abril by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione provides everything needed to overcome the challenges inherent in editorial design.
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Bitstream Foundry
Founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others, the US software and font foundry Bitstream was one of the pioneers of the digital typeface revolution.
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Levato: a refined Antiqua font with a highly dynamic feel
Levato, the first font designed by Felix Bonge, is an Antiqua that is full of character and is refined but by no means sterile.
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Sudtipos
In order to market their fonts, the four Argentinians Ale Paul, Ariel Garofalo, Claudio Pousada and Diego Giaccone founded the Sudtipos label in Buenos Aires.
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Oscar-winning movie fonts 2012: which fonts appear on film posters?
The Academy Awards for 2012 have already been presented. But the spotlight is not only on the winning films, actors and technicians, but also on the film posters and typographic film title designs.
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Shilia
A special design principle underlies the Arabic font Shilia created by Mamoun Sakkal.
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Emboss Fonts
In the heady atmosphere that dominated the world of typography in the mid-1990s, the American Stephan Boss founded his Emboss Fonts label.
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David Hadash: an extensive and highly versatile Hebrew font family
The sophisticated yet uncomplicated forms of the “David” font created by Ismar David in the 1950s ushered in a new era in the design of Hebrew typefaces.
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The most popular releases of 2011
What are the current trends in font design? Perhaps some especially successful recent releases can indicate where the journey is taking us.
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A vibrant and highly legible text font: Mantika Sans by Jürgen Weltin
With its well-defined characters that are readily legible even in the small font sizes, Mantika Sans by Jürgen Weltin is ideal for typesetting.
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The Cape Arcona Foundry
Stefan Claudius and Thomas Schostok, both German, put amusement in first place when it comes to font design.
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Now available from Linotype: Digitized fonts from the Pixilate Type Foundry
The Pixilate Type Foundry specializes in digital handwriting fonts.
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Individual and very lively, with its own strong character: the Massif font by Steve Matteson
Steve Matteson is an experienced designer who above all has been drawing individual fonts for his customers for many years.
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Adelle: an individual, readily legible slab serif
The multipurpose slab serif Adelle of the Typetogether foundry is at its best when used to set newspaper and magazine text.
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Two classics come up trumps: Georgia Pro and Verdana Pro each with five weights and condensed variants
They were originally developed specifically as screen fonts and are available on all operating systems.
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Parkinson Electra: impressive serif with individual personality
Electra was originally designed in the early 1930s by William Addison Dwiggins using the serif fonts of the 15th and 16th centuries as models.
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An interview with Anders Francker
The Danish engineer and typeface designer Anders Francker developed an interest in fonts and numerals while still a child and had always had the ambition to create his own typeface.
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Vesta, an exceptional sans serif family
Vesta™ was originally designed as an orientation and information system for the city of Rome, the birthplace of the roman alphabet.
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Rock am Ring 2011 – the fonts behind the music
We investigate the fonts behind the music and ID the types used on the CD jackets of the event’s headliners.
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Sinova, the simple humanist sans
Sinova™’s simplified letterforms make it an ideal choice for those settings where you really don’t want the type to shout too loudly or draw unnecessary attention to itself.
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Christian Schwartz’s authentic Neue Haas Grotesk
The original metal Neue Haas Grotesk™ would, in the late 1950s become Helvetica®.
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An interview with Gerard Unger
The Dutch font designer Gerard Unger has already created many well-known typefaces, including Demos®, Praxis®, and Neue Swift, to name but a few.
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trytype2
This collection of works was produced by students attending the “Art and Clients – trytype2 cooperation project with Linotype” seminar held during the 2010/2011 winter semester at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden.
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