LinoLetter 2009/07

! Welcome to the Current Issue of the LinoLetter !

In this Issue: Retooled with additional weights and improved spacing – Linotype’s Neue Frutiger New font license permits use on non-commercial websites – EOT fonts welcome type to the web Clear forms, classic and simple – Erik Faulhaber’s Aeonis family Expanding a Renaissance-style type system for modern use – ITC Legacy Square Serif and ITC Legacy Serif Condensed Retooled with additional weights and improved spacing – Linotype’s Neue Frutiger Neue Frutiger®, our new Frutiger family, stems from combined efforts of Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi. These two designers have a record of successfully collaborating on typefaces like Avenir® Next, Frutiger Serif, and Nami™. The original Frutiger typeface, created for Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, has been popular for decades, but it went on to be used in applications not yet imagined at the time it was conceived. A tune-up was necessary, and Adrian and Akira responded with Neue Frutiger, which offers twice as many weights as the original family. In the five weights that the old and the new families have in common, the stroke thicknesses and vertical measurements are compatible. Read a full web feature about the family’s creation at our website.   New font license permits use on non-commercial websites – EOT fonts welcome type to the web Bringing your personal style online involves many factors, including images, layout, and font choices. Until recently, it was difficult for web developers to work with any fonts outside of the few common “web safe” selections. At Linotype.com, you can now download Linotype, ITC, and Monotype fonts with a license that allows embedding in all non-commercial websites. For embedding in commercial websites, please contact our sales team, who are waiting to discuss the best possible licensing extentions for your needs. How does this work? Simply convert the font to the EOT format, and put it to work on your server. For more information, visit Linotype.com.   Clear forms, classic and simple – Erik Faulhaber’s Aeonis family 1950s design minimalism and ancient Greek inscriptional lettering played equal parts in inspiring the look of Aeonis™. For those who dislike the capital “A”, there is a classical letterform available. This reduced sans serif is the newest typeface family from Erik Faulhaber, the creator of Linotype’s Generis™ type system. Learn more about the Aeonis family and examine its 42 fonts in our online store.   Expanding a Renaissance-style type system for modern use – ITC Legacy Square Serif and ITC Legacy Serif Condensed ITC Legacy™ Square Serif and ITC Legacy Serif Condensed, from Ron Arnholm, are the newest additions to the ITC Legacy family of typefaces. These new designs are great communicators in their own right and, when added to the other faces in the Legacy series, create a type family that is greater than the sum of its parts. Browse through all of the ITC Legacy fonts with our webshop.

FontMesa and LetterPerfect – New at Linotype.com and in the FontExplorer X Store Every month, new type foundries and their fonts join our online shops. Click here to see a complete list of 160 additional foundries whose libraries have been added to the Linotype website, and jump directly to the fonts from FontMesa or LetterPerfect! Follow Linotype on Twitter Linotype now publishes updates via Twitter through @Linotype_com. Add us to your follow-list! We are looking forward to having you follow us!

We hope you found this issue of the LinoLetter informative and useful. We highly appreciate your feedback at info@linotype.com The next issue of this newsletter will be published and dropped in your mailbox in August. Your Linotype Online Team

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