Mergenthaler Linotype Company

The former Linotype GmbH operates currently under " Monotype GmbH", is a company in Bad Homburg, the writings, the so-called Fonts, sells or licensed in digital form. Overall, the company offers more than 12,000 journals, of which about 8,000 for the use of the Internet.

In a broader sense, the name " Linotype " referred in the context of the pleading, the printing technology before the Linotype typesetting machine and the associated companies.

Company History

Initially, " Linotype " referred to as the product name, developed by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886 and first presented typesetting machine. 1890, first appeared in the product name " Linotype " as part of the new company name (company) Mergenthaler Linotype Company; Brooklyn seat (New York). Origin of this company was the Mergenthaler Printing Co., with several American newspaper publisher Mergenthaler funded work. Purpose of the company were established in 1890, the production and distribution of Linotype typesetting machines; this included the Linotype Schriftmatrizen.

At the end of the 19th century saw the start-up Linotype & Machinery Ltd.. , Manchester, England, and the Mergenthaler typesetting machines -Fabrik GmbH in Berlin, Germany. In both countries, Linotype typesetting machines and Schriftmatrizen were produced; financially, the two companies were connected with the American Mergenthaler Linotype Company. - After 1945, Linotype activities (sitting Frankfurt am Main ) continued in Germany under the name of Linotype GmbH.

Traditional type foundries such as the D. Stempel AG, Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei and Deberny & Peignot went over the years in the company Linotype.

1987 their merging of the American, English and German Linotype companies for Linotype AG with headquarters in Eschborn ( near Frankfurt / M. ). In 1990, Linotype AG merged with the Kiel-based company Dr. -Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH for Linotype- Hell AG ( seat Eschborn ). At this time, the Group employed approximately 5,250 employees / worldwide.

1997 saw the acquisition of Linotype-Hell AG, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The core business of the former Linotype -Hell AG was transferred to the prepress area of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. Only the newly founded Linotype Library GmbH used " Linotype " as part of the company further. This independent business branch took over the fonts and typography division of the former Linotype -Hell AG. Headquarters of Linotype Library GmbH Bad Homburg, Germany.

End of 2005, Linotype Library GmbH changed its name in Linotype GmbH.

Since August 2006, Linotype GmbH is a Monotype Imaging Inc.; a company that continues the name of the former Monotype typesetting system after previous mergers. Since March 2013 operates in Germany, the former Linotype GmbH, Monotype GmbH.

Business

The business of Monotype GmbH are the distribution and licensing of digital fonts. In addition to the licensing of private customers (eg via the Internet) Linotype support particular business customers on the one hand with the implementation of its corporate identity strategy by equipping with suitable headings and advising on their application, on the other hand is Linotype as a partner for the integration of digital fonts in products ( for example, fonts for display in mobile phones and set-top boxes ) are available.

This Monotype and Linotype has an extensive font library, which is composed of the collected over the decades, some very well-known writings of various origins and is continually developed and completed. As examples of known fonts from Linotype mentioned are the font families Palatino, which was acquired by Microsoft for the Windows operating system as Palatino Linotype Zapfino, which was integrated by Apple into the Mac OS X operating system, or Frutiger, Helvetica, Sabon, Avenir and Univers, but also Wiesbaden Swing.

It went on to Monotype and Linotype since 2005, free font management program FontExplorer X as well. Similarly, Apple iTunes, and iTunes Store, it bridges the gap between the management, use and purchase of new fonts on computers with the operating system Mac OS X. The latest version of FontExplorer X Pro is no longer free since early 2009.

Monotype maintains good relations with many renowned font designers, such as Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger. Furthermore Linotype taught in the past repeatedly conferences on the topics of font technology (eg TypoMedia, TypoTechnica, ITDC ) and font design (eg Kitabat ) from or encouraged this.

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