font_foundry: Monotype
Spectrum MT
Jan van Krimpen designed Spectrum for the Dutch Enschedé foundry in 1952. Released by the Monotype Corporation in 1955, Spectrum is a direct descendant of the great Aldine types of Venice, which are characterized...
Scotch Roman MT
Scottish typefounders exerted a strong influence on the development of “transitional” typefaces, the bridge from “oldstyle” (Jenson, Garamond) to “modern” (Bodoni, Didot) designs. Scotch Roman designs were first cut by…
Rotis SansSerif
The Rotis family was designed in 1989 by Otl Aicher for Agfa; his last type design. Rotis pioneered the idea of matching subfamilies: Sans Serif, Semi Sans, Semi Serif, and Serif. Readily identifiable in...