Foundry: Linotype

  1. Avenir Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    Avenir was designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by Linotype-Hell AG in 1988. The design is based on two earlier…
  2. Trade Gothic Typeface
    Designer: Jackson Burke
    Trade Gothic was designed in 1948 by Jackson Burke, a book and type designer from California. The typeface is a…
  3. Univers Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    As a student in Zurich, Adrian Frutiger began work on Univers, which would eventually be released in 1957 by the…
  4. Bauer Bodoni Typeface
    Designer: Heinrich Jost
    Bauer Bodoni™ was originally released in 1926 from the Bauer Type Foundry in Frankfurt. It was designed by Heinrich Jost,…
  5. Helvetica Typeface
    Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann
    Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas type foundry) of Münchenstein,…
  6. Hobo Typeface
    Designer: Morris Fuller Benton
    The Hobo font is a dynamically tapering face in which all strokes are accentuated curves, achieving a superb decorative effect.…
  7. Frutiger Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. It was commissioned in 1968 by the newly…
  8. Swift Typeface
    Designer: Gerard Unger
    “Many of my type designs have been the result of my own initiative,* particularly my newsfaces. The first of these…
  9. Helvetica Neue Typeface
    Designer: Max Miedinger, Linotype
    Neue Helvetica is a reworking of the typeface with a more structurally unified set of heights and widths. It was…
  10. Garamond 3 Typeface
    Designer: Jean Jannon
    Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480"1561) in the development of the Old Face font Garamond. What…
  11. Stempel Garamond Typeface
    Designer: Claude Garamond
    First released by D. Stempel AG in 1925, Stempel Garamond™ was based on the Egenolff-Berner specimen of 1592 and was…
  12. Serlio LH Typeface
  13. Herculanum Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    Named for Pompeii’s sister city, Herculanum was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1990 for Linotype’s Type before Gutenberg series. The…
  14. Zapfino Typeface
    Designer: Hermann Zapf
    Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype by designer Hermann Zapf in 1998. It is based on an alphabet…
  15. Adobe Jenson Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach

    Adobe Jenson Pro captures the essence of Nicolas Jenson’s roman and Ludovico degli Arrighi’s italic typeface designs. The combined strength…

  16. Didot Typeface
    Designer: Firmin Didot
    Modern typefaces, characterized by consistently horizontal stress, flat and unbracketed serifs, and a high contrast between thin and thick strokes,…
  17. Memphis Typeface
    Designer: Rudolf Wolf
    Egyptian, or slab serif, typefaces surged to popularity in the early 1800s. Memphis was the first Egyptian revival, designed by…
  18. Palatino Typeface
    Designer: Hermann Zapf
    Named after 16th century Italian master of calligraphy Giambattista Palatino, Palatino is based on the humanist fonts of the Italian…
  19. VAG Rounded Typeface
    Designer: Gerry Barney
    VAG Rounded (or VAG Rundschrift) is a geometric sans serif typeface designed in 1979 for the Volkswagen AG motor manufacturer.…
  20. Haas Unica Typeface
    Designer: Christian Mengelt, André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind
    Typedesign by Team'77 (André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind), 1977, under contract to Haas Typefoundry, as new sansserif typeface for…
  21. Insignia Typeface
    Designer: Neville Brody
    Insignia is a 1986 typeface by British designer Neville Brody. Originally developed as a headline face for Arena magazine, Insignia…
  22. PMN Caecilia Typeface
    Designer: Peter Matthias Noordzij
    This Linotype typeface was designed in 1990 by Peter Matthias Noordzij (PMN), and named for his wife, Caecilia. Because its…
  23. San Marco Typeface
    Designer: Karlgeorg Hoefer
    A rotunda designed as part of Linotype's Type before Gutenberg…
  24. Baskerville Typeface
    Designer: John Baskerville
    In 1757 designed by John Baskerville as his reaction to improving the Caslon typeface Baskerville remains metaphoric of the transitional…
  25. Sassoon Primary Typeface
    Designer: Rosemary Sassoon, Adrian Williams
    This typeface was designed for children's books. It is very easy to read. Each letters are very distinguishable from each…
  26. ITC American Typewriter Typeface
    Designer: Joel Kaden, Tony Stan
    ITC American Typewriter was designed by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan. It is an ode to the invention that shaped…
  27. Caledonia Typeface
    Designer: William Addison Dwiggins
    Caledonia was designed by William A. Dwiggins in 1939 and originally appeared under the name Cornelia with the Mergenthaler typesetting…
  28. Haarlemmer Typeface
    Designer: Jan van Krimpen, Frank E. Blokland
    This is a Bible type - which is to say, a plain face with large x-height - designed for Monotype…
  29. Luba Typeface
    Designer: Hendrik Moeller
    Luba is a multi-script text family designed by Hendrik Moeller. The family includes four weights: Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold.…
  30. Notre Dame Roman Typeface
    Designer: Karlgeorg Hoefer
    Notre Dame font is a part of the 1990 program ""Type before Gutenberg"", which included the work of twelve contemporary…
  31. Cisalpin Typeface
    Designer: Felix Arnold
    The Swiss designer/typographer Felix Arnold designed Cisalpin during the late 1990s, after he had challenged himself to create a contemporary…
  32. Neue Swift Typeface
    Designer: Gerard Unger
    It would be difficult to describe Neue Swift as a redesign of the classic Swift typeface family. Neue Swift is…
  33. Vectora Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    Adrian Frutiger designed Vectora™ for Linotype in 1990, after realizing there was need for a sans serif type that could…
  34. Linotype Didot Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    For about 100 years in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, several members of the Didot family were active in Paris…
  35. Adobe Didot Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    This typeface is designed by Adrian Frutiger of Linotype, but the Adobe distributions have different names and possibly slightly different…
  36. Alcuin Typeface
    Designer: Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
    Gudrun Zapf von Hesse designed the first sketches of Alcuin in 1986. The namesake of this typeface was an advisor…
  37. Carmina Typeface
    Designer: Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
    At the behest of Matthew Carter, Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (the German bookbinder, calligrapher, and type designer) designed Carmina BT…
  38. Ariadne Typeface
    Designer: Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
    Since monks of the 8th century began to compile written works into books, the inital letter, of a word, sentence,…
  39. Diotima Typeface
    Designer: Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
    Diotima was designed by Gudrun Zapf von Hesse in 1948, the italic even earlier, in 1939. Its roots had been…
  40. Nofret Typeface
    Designer: Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
    Nofret is a modern face with strong contrast and near vertical stress, first released by the Berthold foundry in 1984.…
  41. Smaragd Typeface
    Designer: Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
    Smaragd is a light and gracious font especially appropriate for titles and cards. It is Gudrun Zapf von Hesse's interpretation…
  42. Fette Fraktur Typeface
    Designer: Johann Christian Bauer
    The C.E. Weber Foundry published a version in 1875, and the D Stempel AG foundry published the version shown at…
  43. Bell Gothic Typeface
    Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith
    The typeface was commissioned by AT&T as a proprietary typeface for use in telephone directories. Bell Gothic was superseded by…
  44. Samba Typeface
    Designer: Tony de Marco, Caio de Marco
  45. DIN Next Typeface
    Designer: Akira Kobayashi, Sandra Winter
    DIN Next is a typeface family inspired by the classic industrial German engineering designs, DIN 1451 Engschrift and Mittelschrift. Akira…
  46. Sabon Typeface
    Designer: Jan Tschichold
    Jan Tschichold's Sabon was originally released in three formats: in 1964 as foundry type by the Stempel and in 1966…
  47. ITC Weidemann Typeface
    Designer: Kurt Weidemann
    The ITC Weidemann® Font Family is part of the ITC Collection. The Weidemann typeface's original name was Biblica, which was…
  48. Algerian Typeface
    Designer: Alan Carr, Philip Kelly, Alan Meeks
    lgerian (regular) was created for Scangraphic by Phillip Kelly at Letraset. Algerian Condensed was created by the Linotype library designer…
  49. Janson Typeface
    Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith
    The Hungarian punchcutter Miklós Kis designed and cut this typeface in about 1685 while working in Amsterdam. It was not…
  50. Clairvaux Roman Typeface
    Designer: Herbert Maring
    Designed by Herbert Maring and released by Linotype in 1990. Clairvaux is based on early Gothic typefaces used by the…
  51. Trajanus Typeface
    Designer: Warren Chappell, Hermann Zapf
    Designed by Warren Chappell c. 1939–40. Inspired by the inscriptional letters on the base of Trajan's Column in Rome. Lowercase is…
  52. Peignot Typeface
    Designer: A.M. Cassandre
  53. Kursivschrift Typeface
    Designer: German Cartographic Design
  54. Ondine Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
  55. Thunderbird Typeface
    Thunderbird is an old American-style typeface. It is based on the kinds of big wood type that were popular in…
  56. Stilla Typeface
    Designer: François Boltana
    Cursive fat…
  57. Hiroshige Typeface
    Designer: Cynthia Hollandsworth
    The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the great nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose…
  58. Malabar Typeface
    Designer: Dan Reynolds
    A new type family for extensive text, Malabar™ likely is the first typeface in the Linotype library named after a…
  59. City Typeface
    Designer: Georg Trump
    City is a slab serif typeface designed by Georg Trump (1896"1985), and released in 1930 by the H. Berthold AG…
  60. Trump Mediäval Typeface
    Designer: Georg Trump
    Trump Mediaeval is a typeface of robust characters, which makes it suitable even for inferior paper. Light and legible, the…
  61. Madison Typeface
    Designer: D. Stempel AG, Heinrich Hoffmeister
    Madison Antiqua™ was original released as a metal typeface for hand setting in 1965. The letters were produced by D.…
  62. Syntax Typeface
    Designer: Hans Eduard Meier
    Syntax is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed 1969-72 by the Swiss typeface designer Hans Eduard Meier (born 1922). It is…
  63. Aldus Typeface
    Designer: Hermann Zapf
  64. Friz Quadrata Typeface
    Designer: Ernst Friz, Victor Caruso, Thierry Puyfoulhoux
    Friz Quadrata font is the work of a number of collaborators. The first weight was created by Swiss designer Ernst…
  65. OCR-A Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    The goal of this font design was to create forms which could be used and reproduced electronically and remain legible.…
  66. Egyptienne F Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    Adrian Frutiger designed Egyptienne F for the Deberny & Peignot Foundry in 1956. "Egyptian" or "Egyptienne" is a typographic designation…
  67. Photina MT Typeface
    Designer: Jose Mendoza y Almeida
  68. Akko Typeface
    Designer: Akira Kobayashi
    By combining the more austere industrial concept with the softer, friendlier aspects, Akira Kobayashi has managed to create two typeface…
  69. Stevens Titling Typeface
    Designer: John Stevens, Ryuichi Tateno
    A collaborative work of the both calligraphers John Stevens and Ryuichi Tateno, is a suite of four fonts: Sable Brush,…
  70. Neue Haas Grotesk Typeface
    Designer: Christian Schwartz
    The original metal Neue Haas Grotesk™ would, in the late 1950s become Helvetica®. But, over the years, Helvetica would move…
  71. Sinova Typeface
    Designer: Christian Mengelt
    Thanks to its clear and straightforward design and dynamic rhythm, one of the main characteristics of Sinova is its excellent…
  72. Isonorm Typeface
    Isonorm was created in 1980 by the International Standards Organization (ISO). The font’s design is simple, clean, and geometric, with…
  73. Parkinson Electra Typeface
    Designer: Jim Parkinson
    Although Dwiggins used fonts such as Bodoni and Baskerville as his patterns, Electra is significantly more dynamic than its forebears.…
  74. Mantika Sans Typeface
    Designer: Jürgen Weltin
    Jürgen Weltin developed the Mantika™ Sans sans serif font using older designs for an serif font as his inspiration. Nothing…