font_foundry: Monotype

Spectrum MT

Spectrum MT font

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...

Shannon

Shannon font

Scotch Roman MT

Scotch Roman MT font

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

Rotis SansSerif font

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...

Rotis SemiSans

Rotis SemiSans font

Rotis Serif

Rotis Serif font

Runic

Runic font

Rockwell

Rockwell font

Whether you call them slab serif, square serif, or Egyptian, you know them when you see them – sturdy, nearly monoweight designs with blunt, straight-edged serifs and a no-nonsense attitude. The Rockwell® Nova family...

Raphael

Raphael font

Pepita MT

Pepita MT font

Drawn for Monotype by the Hungarian designer Imre Reiner in 1959, Pepita interprets the flair of the artist’s brush into a dazzling cursive typeface. Irregular alignment coupled with a moderate variation in stress endows...