FontShop International
FSI FontShop International ( FSI) is an international manufacturer of digital fonts based in Berlin.
All fonts are published as FontFonts within the same library. The library includes drafts of 160 type designers. They include renowned designers such as Peter Biľak, Evert Bloemsma, Erik van Blokland, Neville Brody, Martin Majoor, Albert -Jan Pool, Hans Reichel, Just van Rossum, Fred Smeijers and Erik Spiekermann. The production of FontFonts aims to produce writings by designers for designers. In addition to foundries such as Linotype, Monotype and ITC FSI FontShop International is now one of the leading manufacturers of digital typefaces.
History
After 1989, the German securities trading house FontShop was founded, followed by the launch of an independent foundry in the following year by Joan Spiekermann, Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody. They hired some young, unknown typographer with the publication of the first font fonts. The first published writing was the FF Beowolf the two Dutch Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum in 1990. It was referred to as "living" font, since they used a random function of the page description language PostScript to change the letter shapes of a font with every print arbitrary. The library grew through numerous published new releases (previously called 56 releases, as of July 2011) to one of the largest collections of original contemporary typefaces.
Between 1990 and 2000 FSI published together with Neville Brody 18 issues of experimental typography magazine Fuse and initiated conferences same. From these, the annual European design conference TYPO Berlin developed.
In 2001, the company grew with the establishment of the Agency ƒStop additionally in the stock photography industry.
In February 2010, published FSI was the first type foundry web fonts in the new format WOFF, which supports in combination with the support from Microsoft Internet Explorer EOT Lite a lot of the current browser and the limitation of the web designer on the system fonts that are installed on all website visitors, cancels. Here, this web fonts are linked with the elements of a website that HTML texts have the same individual Typography for all visitors.
Corporate Structure
FSI is licensed for a total of four FontShops in Benelux, Germany, Austria and the USA. Only the operating under this name U.S. distributor based in San Francisco is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The FontShops act legally and financially independent with different business priorities. While FSI produces itself as a manufacturer of writings, which act FontShops as mail order companies for this, but also to the writings of other manufacturers ( 111 in August 2011).
FSI FontShop International has the corporate form of a GmbH.
Font font
The focus of the company lies in the expansion and maintenance of the FontFont typeface library. Published in their fonts are identified by the prefix FF. In addition to text and headline fonts like FF Dax, FF DIN, FF Meta, FF and FF Scala Quadraat will find unusual designs. Have become known as the "dirty " typewriter font FF Trixie, the "living" font FF Beowolf and the first digital script fonts FF Erik Right Hand and Left Hand Just FF (FF Hands). The library includes more than 600 different font families.
Font designers can submit their own designs for inclusion in the library. An occupied with international experts (Type Board) advises every six months according to aesthetic, technical and marketing criteria relating to the taking of the scriptures. The originality of the submitted designs is this basic requirement.
Font Book
FSI is also editor of Font Book. The Font Book is a hardcover bound, manufacturer-independent compendium of digital typefaces. The first edition was published in 1991 and was - to meet the growing number of new fonts - three times and each revised reissued. The fourth edition of September 2006 includes 1,760 pages over 32,000 fonts from 90 international libraries and manufacturers and thus represents the most comprehensive printed overview of publications dar. next to Font Samples The reference book also contains information on the various designers, the publication year, the style category and language versions, with cross references to Alternatively writings.
In July 2011, FSI published the first digital version of Font Book. The iPad app includes 620,000 font sample of 110 international font libraries.
ƒStop
The company also produces the image archive ƒStop. Currently, the offer includes 22,000 stock photos of 150 photo designers (as of December 2008). The images are offered both its own sales, as well as through third-party distributors, including some of the FontShops and Getty Images. Similar to the theme of the font library ƒStop pursued the goal of providing pictures by designers for designers.