font_foundry: Linotype

Blackoak

Blackoak font

Joy Redick designed Blackoak, a big and heavy Egyptienne-sytle titling slab serif face, in 1990. The extremely robust style of the characters in this typeface was consciously distorted; creating letterforms that appear flattened and...

Auriol

Auriol font

This type, released by Peignot in 1901, was based on the handwriting of the art nouveau painter and designer, Georges Auriol. The Peignot drawing office insisted on a more normal appearance in the boldface,...

Avenir

Avenir font

In drawing the Avenir® typeface, Adrian Frutiger looked to both the past and the future for inspiration. His goal was to reinterpret the geometric sans serif designs of the early part of the 20th...

Linotype Audio Pi

Linotype Audio Pi font

Audio Pi was created by the Linotype Staff. The Audio Pi font is a collection of symbols intended for use by designers working in the recording and broadcasting industries.

Linotype Astrology Pi

Linotype Astrology Pi font

The Astrology Pi font was designed by the Linotype Staff. The Astrology Pi font contains two fonts of astrological symbols: plain and decorative.

New Aster

New Aster font

This book and newspaper font was designed by Francesco Simoncini in 1958. After the Second World War brought type design to a standstill, the years of reconstruction meant a reconsideration of old values in...

Ariadne

Ariadne font

Since monks of the 8th century began to compile written works into books, the inital letter, of a word, sentence, page, etc., has held great importance. In this tradition, Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse created the...

Arnold Boecklin

Arnold Boecklin font

The font, Arnold Boecklin, appeared in 1904 with the font foundry Otto Weisert. Traces of the floral forms of the Jugendstil can still be seen in this typeface. Alphabets of this type were mainly...

Arcadia

Arcadia font

Brody’s fonts borrow elements from both Art Deco and non-Western styles. His designs received international recognition for their innovative, computer-oriented style, reaching almost cult status. Four original Brody fonts are available from Linotype…

Aldus

Aldus font

Designed by Hermann Zapf for D. Stempel AG, this typeface was originally intended to be the book or text weight for his