TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Mon Apr 15 05:29:10 EDT 2024
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The Quick Brown Fox GmbH
[Willi Welsch]
Run by Willi Welsch out of Köln, Germany, this foundry sells the SERIALS type library, consisting of 2,000 professional typefaces on the CD-ROMs Typecollection, DesignerCollection, CreativeTypeCollection (500 Brendel Informatik fonts for 499DM), and the new StyleCollection. Their program FontExpert automatically identifies typefaces from a scanned document out of a database of 25,000 typefaces. A quick check reveals however that many fonts are just renamed designs. The TypeShop Collection is also owned by them. MyFonts writes: The originator of the big TypeShop Collection was Walter Florenz Brendel (1930-1992). As far back as 1972, he had the idea of an electronic and digital system for typeface plotting and cutting, as well as automatic modification and reproduction. Before 1972, when type users demanded their type color to be a little lighter or little darker, Brendel, as the owner of over 28 type shops across Europe employing about six hundred people, could not meet their demands with the existing typefaces. Consequently Brendel developed a method to satisfy their needs. Brendel was the originator of the concept, and contributor and partner in the development, of IKARUS by Dr. Peter Karow. He cut typefaces based on mathematical increments that would allow type weights to be graduated in equal steps. Thanks to his perfectionism, type users can have the luxury of choosing a specific type weight out of seven from as many as 65 font families in the TypeShop Collection. Mr. Brendel was an accomplished professional type designer. Lingwood, Montreal, Volkswagen, Derringer, and Casablanca and many more were his creations. He was a design collaborator of Congress, Litera, Worchester and others. |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |