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URW Type Foundrty (was: urw++)
URW++ Design&Development GmbH is a Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. In the first decade of the 21st century, freelance type designer Ralph M. Unger contributed most frequently to the URW library. OpenType collection guide (in PDF). Selected releases: URW Egyptienne, URW Grotesk (1985, Hermann Zapf), Anzeigen Grotesk (2009), Clarendon No 1 URW, Saa Series (an industrial sans: the official typeface for Australian road signage), Nimbus Sans (1987, a Helvetica clone), Nimbus Sans Novus, Nimbus Sans Europa (covering Latin, Greek, Baltic, Cyrillic, Central European, Turkish, Romanian, and so forth), Nimbus Roman No 9 (2001), Nimbus Sans Global and Nimbus Roman Global, each at about 2000 Euros, and each containing 35,000 glyphs, from kanji/Chinese/Korean to all European languages. House typefaces done for corporations: DaimlerChrysler Corporate ASE (after the Corporate ASE series for Daimler-Benz by Kurt Weidemann), Gardena Sans (2015, for Gardena), Siemens Schriftfamilie, Deutsche Telekom Schriftfamilie, ZF Friedrichshafen, Körber Argo, URW++ SelecType Raldo (2001, for Igepa). MyFonts lists their bestsellers. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. Another catalog of URW's typefaces. Eight-minute corporate movie produced in the summer of 2014. Adobe link. |
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file name: Hermann Zapf U R W Grotesk 1985
file name: Hermann Zapf U R W Grotesk 1985b
file name: Hermann Zapf U R W Grotesk 1985c
file name: Hermann Zapf U R W Grotesk 1985f
file name: U R W Egyptienne
file name: U R W Saa Series 2001 303269
file name: U R W Saa Series 2001 303271
file name: U R W Saa Series 2001
file name: U R W Saa Series
file name: U R W Caslon Graphique 2011
file name: U R W Enviro 2011 10 06
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic 2011
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902b
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902c
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902d
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902e
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902f
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902g
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902h
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902i
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902j
file name: U R W Franklin Gothic after Morris Fuller Benton 1902k
file name: U R W Justus Pro 2011
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Novus 2011
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Novus 2011
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Novus 2001
file name: U R W Nimbus Roman 2014
file name: U R W Prana Pro 2011
file name: U R W Algerian numerals 1993
file name: U R W Alta Schwabacher
file name: U R W Anzeigen Grotesk 2009 after Haas Anzeigen Grotesk 1943
file name: U R W Anzeigen Grotesk 2009 after Haas Anzeigen Grotesk 1943b
file name: U R W Broadway 2002
file name: U R W Cooper Black 1994
file name: U R W Fette Fraktur 2011 after C E Weber 1875
file name: U R W Fette Fraktur D 1994
file name: U R W Frau Becker 2011
file name: U R W Gardena Sans 2015
file name: U R W Hanyi Hei Qi 2011
file name: U R W Neustadt 2010
file name: U R W Nivea Bold 2000
file name: Kurt Weidemann Corporate E U R W 1985 1989
file name: Kurt Weidemann Corporate E Bold U R W 1985 1989
file name: U R W Algerian
file name: U R W Amber
file name: U R W American Gothic
file name: U R W American Uncial D by Victor Hammer
file name: U R W Americana
file name: U R W Americana
file name: U R W Americana Bold
file name: U R W April
file name: U R W Arab Brushstroke
file name: U R W Aster Medium by Francesco Simoncini
file name: U R W Avon by Mac R Kaufmann
file name: U R W Danmark
file name: U R W Deepdene
file name: U R W Mistral 1992
file name: U R W Palladio U R W Medium 2010
file name: U R W Palladio 1990 based on Hermann Zapf Palatino 1948
file name: U R W Palladio
file name: U R W Parade
file name: U R W Stymie Black after Morris Fuller Benton
file name: U R W Antique Olive after Roger Excoffon
file name: U R W Baskerville
file name: U R W Baskerville
file name: U R W Hobo after R Fuller Benton
file name: U R W Ralph M Unger Manuskript Antiqua 2011 after Oldrich Menhart
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