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New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... fonts from memory or from a hidden file every time the machine is booted. After all this is how font managers work. I can't help but ... they were kind enough to update to a Type 1 a year later), Monotype, Linotype, URW, Adobe (originally library was a mere $15,000 and talk ...

Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments

What to do with my Centaur?

... complete 14pt optical scale. My feeling was that Monotype Imaging , the foundry with clear lineage from the Monotype that ... Rogers 1929 Like Bembo, released for the Monotype machine the same year, Centaur was an exceptionally beautiful and eminently ...

Forum topic - raph - 18 Jun 2007 - 12:07pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments

20 most important type designers of all time

... a Venetian Poet and historian, not a type designer. The Monotype typeface Bembo is named for him, but Bembo Roman was based on a roman ... instead. @bleachmilk - it's a perpetual-motion troll machine. I too have succumbed :-( Gerard Unger should be added Gerard ...

Forum topic - Brown Fox - 8 Jan 2007 - 10:25am - 72 comments - 0 attachments

Typography trends and predictions for 2007

... industry consolidation, continuing the trend of 2006 when Monotype acquired Linotype. We'll be seeing a lot more of Calibri, as ... my oh so cloudy Getting out my oh so cloudy crystal bs machine.... Trends for 2007 & 2008! The vision comes... In spring ...

Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 31 Dec 2006 - 11:09am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

Helvetica

... to take the face over and redrew it for the Linotype machine . (51% of Haas was owned by Stempel, which itself was controlled by ... Similar to Helvetica is Arial *, originally created by Monotype for IBM. The TrueType version of Arial, installed by default on Mac ...

Wiki - Sii Daniels - 26 May 2011 - 10:48am - 0 comments

Garamond

... the early twentieth century the producers of matrices for machine setting were keen to revive or recut historical typefaces, and several ... were produced: by ATF in 1918 , by Lanston Monotype (drawn by Frederic Goudy ) in 1921, and by English Monotype ...

Wiki - Forrest L Norvell - 1 Mar 2011 - 1:37am - 0 comments

(x) 1960s newspaper headline font - Tempo {anonymous}

... possibly not for headlines, which may have been handset or Monotype. Although WAD never designed italics for the Metro series, ... to 60 point. It's quite likely that they used a Ludlow machine for headlines and the Linotype for smaller settings. I mentioned ...

Forum topic - jeff560 - 2 Dec 2007 - 12:11am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Sabon

... used at the time (hand-set foundry type, the Linotype Machine , and the Monotype Machine ). Its design was based on Garamond . Sabon was later ...

Wiki - dan_reynolds - 26 Feb 2011 - 6:58am - 0 comments

Not Obeying the 'Times' Requirement

... a metal Times that was quite beautiful. Maybe 12-point Monotype? 14-point Monotype? It did require substantial leading. Long ... didn't make him do it on an old typewriter and produce the machine as proof that it hadn't been done on a computer. :-( Lido—and ...

Forum topic - copperfont - 3 Mar 2007 - 7:09pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments

Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing

... our company realized: its not a german font. Hence Monotype Series 262, in which the A, M, N, a, g, and t of Gill, and the ... not solely dependent for their modernity on looking as machine-made and simple as possible, but addressed and defined other qualities. ...

Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments