Linotype Fonts

Lake Informal

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:1993
Post category:script

Lake Informal was designed by Rudolf Ruzicka in 1935. It is a handwriting font which imitates the result of a feather script on paper. A dynamic, individual font, it is…

Legal

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:2004
Post category:sans-serif

The Legal typeface family grew out a sans serif project that Hellmut G. Bomm began in the 1970s (his HGB Grotesk). This refined, industrial type family is well suited for…

Liga Sans

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:2001
Post category:sans-serif

The German designer Alexander Dosiehn developed the Liga Sans type family as part of his graduate thesis at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf in 2001. Liga Sans is a sans serif typeface…

LinoLetter

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:1992
Post category:serif

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…

Linoscript

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:1905
Post category:script

Linoscript was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1905 and released by American Type Founders as Typo Upright; when it was integrated into the Linotype technology in 1926, it was…

Linotext

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:1901
Post category:blackletter

Linotext was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1901 and first appeared with the name Wedding Text with American Type Founders in Jersey City, where its metal forms were cut…

Linotype Afrika

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:1999
Post category:picture

Linotype Afrika, from German type designer Jörg Herz, is part of the TakeType Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contest 1999 for inclusion on…

Linotype Afroculture

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:1999
Post category:picture

Like the name suggests, the pi font Afroculture from typeface designer Boule Yvan depicts symbols and figures from African folk art. Stylized masks with different expressions and a number of…

Linotype Agogo

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:1997
Post category:script

Linotype Agogo is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the contestants of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. Designed by British artist Ed Bugg,…

Linotype Albafire

Post author:Linotypestaff
Post published:2002
Post category:decorative

With Albafire, Jürgen Ellenberger has played with flames that come out of the exhausts from Michael Schumachers Ferrari, or the hot rod cars in America or at the tractor pulling…