Linotype Library GmbH

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Linotype Library GmbH Large type German foundry Linotype controlling over 4000 fonts. The company was located in Bad Homburg since 1998. It was acquired by Monotype Imaging in 2006, after more than a decade under the helm of Bruno Steinert. On January 29, 2024, Monotype sent this message: As part of a consolidation of its online offerings, the Monotype Group has decided to discontinue the operation of Monotype GmbH's online store LinoType, effective 28.03.2024, and to transfer/novate this business unit in its entirety to MyFonts Inc. of 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801---also a company of the Monotype Group. And that is the end of Linotype. Linotype wrote about itself in 2008: Linotype GmbH, based in Bad Homburg, Germany and a wholly owned subsidiary of Monotype Imaging Inc., looks back onto a history of more than 120 years. Building on its strong heritage, Linotype develops state-of-the-art font technology and offers more than 9,000 original typefaces, covering the whole typographic spectrum from antique to modern, from east to west, and from classical to experimental. All typefaces (in PostScript(tm) and TrueType(tm) format as well as more than 7,000 fonts in OpenType(tm)) are now also available for instant download at www.linotype.com. In addition to supplying digital fonts, Linotype also offers comprehensive and individual consultation and support services for font applications in worldwide (corporate) communication. It publishes frivolous/experimental font collections under the name Taketype (1 through 4 now), and regularly publishes reworked classic and original text type families such as Compatil, Vialog, Satero, Linotype Sabon, Linotype Frutiger, Linotype Optima, and Linotype Univers. Its designers. A time line: 1886: Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype machine. 1890: Mergenthaler establishes the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, USA. 1895: The D. Stempel foundry was born. 1915: D. Stempel takes over the type foundry Roos&Junge, Offenbach (established in 1886). 1917: D. Stempel acquires a majority share of the type foundry Klingspor Bros., Offenbach. 1918: D. Stempel takes over the type foundry Heinrich Hoffmeister, Leipzig (established in 1898). 1919: D. Stempel acquires the type division of W. Drugulin, Leipzig (established in 1800) and a share of the type foundry Brötz&Glock, Frankfurt (established in 1892). 1927: D. Stempel acquires a shareholding in the Haas'sche type foundry in Basel/Münchenstein (established in 1790). 1933: D. Stempel acquires a shareholding in the type foundry Benjamin Krebs (Successors), Frankfurt (established in 1816). 1956: D. Stempel AG acquires full ownership of the type foundry Klingspor Bros., Offenbach (established in 1906). 1963: Linotype takes over the type foundry Genzsch + Heyse, Hamburg (established 1833). 1970: Stempel takes over part of the type collection of C.E. Weber (Stuttgart, est. 1927). 1972: The Haas'sche type foundry in Basel/Münchenstein takes over the type foundry Deberny&Peignot, Paris. 1978: The Haas'sche type foundry takes over Fonderie Olive, Marseille (established in 1836). 1985: Linotype takes over of the type division of D. Stempel AG. 1989: Linotype takes over the Haas'sche type foundry (established in 1790). 1990: Linotype AG merges with Hell GmbH to become Linotype-Hell AG. 2006: Acquired by Monotype Imaging. 2024: On January 29, 2024, Monotype sent this message: As part of a consolidation of its online offerings, the Monotype Group has decided to discontinue the operation of Monotype GmbH's online store LinoType, effective 28.03.2024, and to transfer/novate this business unit in its entirety to MyFonts Inc. of 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801---also a company of the Monotype Group. And that is the end of Linotype. MyFonts link for Linotype Design Studio. Catalog of the typefaces in Linotype's library [large web page]. View Linotype's library of typefaces in alphabetical order.	EXTERNAL LINKS Linotype Library GmbH [Buy fonts] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Commercial foundries ⦿ History of type ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Garalde or Garamond typefaces ⦿ Baskerville ⦿