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Aviano offers variations on the theme of Copperplate Gothic 30 Apr 2013 | 05:42 pm
You will see the eye-catching Copperplate Gothic fonts in use everywhere – they are a particularly popular choice when it comes to setting poster texts. However, on the whole, they all look very much ...
Design icon Avant Garde now with pan-European character sets 18 Feb 2013 | 07:02 pm
Pan-European W1G character sets of the ten weights of the regular version of Avant Garde were made available at the beginning of this year. Greek and Cyrillic characters have been supplied for all wei...
Interview with designer Kimya Gandhi 5 Feb 2013 | 02:51 pm
The Indian designer Kimya Gandhi collaborated with the Linotype Design Studio to modify DIN Next for the Indian writing system Devanagari. In an interview with Linotype, she spoke of her personal view...
Greek ligatures and Serbian Cyrillic:Jovica Veljović’s Agmena 28 Jan 2013 | 07:44 pm
Working with a typeface designed by Jovica Veljović is not without its challenges as the multivarious stylistic alternatives, the context-specific ligatures, swash letters and linguistic idiosyncrasie...
All digitalised typeface characters in the worldin 2 hours and 31 minutes: the Unicode film 8 Jan 2013 | 02:03 pm
Professor Johannes Bergerhausen has not only written a book on all digital typefaces used around the world that has won seven awards but, with all true typography fans in mind, he has also created a f...
Linotype: The Film – now available on DVD and Blu-ray 20 Dec 2012 | 07:49 pm
Director Doug Wilson travelled the world for two years collecting material on the Linotype typesetting machine. The result is a 76-minute documentary on a device that Thomas Edison called “The Eighth ...
Zapfino Arabic: A Typeface in the Making 20 Nov 2012 | 08:49 pm
In series of blog posts on the imprintsite, Nadine Chahine, designer and expert for Arabic at Linotype and Monotype Imaging, will be describing the processes behind the development of Zapfino Arabic W...
Say Cheese: Linotype’s contribution to the 30th anniversary of the smiley 15 Nov 2012 | 06:25 pm
The smiley emoticon, which has become such an integral part of written internet communication, turns 30 this year. It is assumed that it was originally created by Professor Scott E. Fahlman as a way o...
Webfontday 2012 on November 10th in Munich – Linotype takes part 8 Nov 2012 | 06:31 pm
Stop by to see us on Webfontday 2012 in Munich – we’re there for you the whole day and look forward to all your questions on the theme of Webfonts! Detailed information on this event can be found unde...
Tip for typography fans:Berlin’s ‘Buchstabenmuseum’ 18 Oct 2012 | 05:24 pm
Located on the first floor of the Carée shopping mall on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz is the unique ‘Buchstabenmuseum’ – Berlin’s Museum of Letters. It houses a constantly growing collection of letters and...
