font_foundry: Linotype

Wiesbaden Swing

Wiesbaden Swing font

German designer Rosemarie Kloos-Rau created Wiesbaden Swing in 1992 for Linotype. This light, informal typeface is based on her own handwriting, and the strokes have a feeling of spontaneity and energetic flair. Characters like...

Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch

Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch font

Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch appeared in 1925 with the Klingspor font foundry in Offenbach, Germany. Designer Rudolf Koch based his work on the Gothic forms of the 14th century and his broken letter font is...

Versailles

Versailles font

The origins of the font Versailles go back to the 19th century in France when, with the introduction of lithography, alphabets could contain freer forms. The basic forms are Modern Face with triangular serifs....

VAG Rounded

VAG Rounded font

Originally commissioned in 1979 as a new corporate typeface for Volkswagen AG, the VAG Rounded™ family’s geometric sans letterforms feature distinct rounded terminals, imparting the design with a friendly, approachable demeanor. With its design...

Utopia

Utopia font

Utopia, created by Robert Slimbach and presented by Adobe in 1992, was intended to solve a number of typographic problems related to office correspondence. This demanded versatility, so Slimbach created a font family with...

Vectora

Vectora font

In creating Vectora, Adrian Frutiger was influenced by American Gothic styles, especially those of Morris F. Benton’s Franklin Gothic and News Gothic. Vectora is light and balanced, giving text legibility and a harmonious appearance.

Trump Mediaeval

Trump Mediaeval font

In this design prepared for Weber in the 1950s, Georg Trump breaks selected curves to separate his work from conventional oldstyles.

Univers

Univers font

The font family Univers is one of the greatest typographic achievements of the second half of the 20th century. The family has the advantage of having a variety of weights and styles, which, even...

Universal NewsCom+GreekMath

Universal NewsCom+GreekMath font

The Universal Pi fonts are collections of symbols and mathematical characters useful for math textbooks and commercial or newspaper publishing.