Demos Next

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The Demos® Next typeface family is a complete renewal and expansion to Dutch type designer Gerard Unger’s classic from 1975. This enhanced typeface design introduces subtle changes to character shapes,…

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Electra font Fairfield font Generis Slab font

Generis Slab

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The idea for the Generis type system came to Erik Faulhaber while he was traveling in the USA. Seeing typefaces mixed together in a business district motivated him to create…

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LinoLetter font

LinoLetter

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In the 1980s, the Linotype Corporation worked with the Design School in Basel, Switzerland, to create a new legibility typeface. Professor Andre Gürtler oversaw the research project, with Reinhard Haus…

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Linotype Didot font

Linotype Didot

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The Didot family were active as designers for about 100 years in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were printers, publishers, typeface designers, inventors and intellectuals. Around 1800 the Didot…

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Linotype Rowena font

Linotype Rowena

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Linotype Rowena is part of the Take Type Library, selected from the contestants of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. This text font was designed by…

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New Aster font

New Aster

Designed by Francesco Simoncini for the Simoncini foundry in 1958, New Aster is a text type designed for use in books and newspapers. New Aster is designed fairly wide with…

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Quitador font

Quitador

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Quitador, designed by German designer Arne Freytag (b. 1967), is a constructed Slab Serif typeface family with a humanistic touch especially the Italics. The typeface family has a high x-height,…

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Rotation font

Rotation

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Arthur Ritzel designed Rotation for Linotype in 1971. Similar in style to Times Roman, Rotation is sturdier and more legible in text set in small sizes. It was designed for…

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