Linotype
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1890 |
| Seat | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |
| Number of employees | 46 (2010, Bad Homburg) |
| sales | 16.2 million euros |
| Branch | software |
| Website | www.linotype.com |
| Status: 2008 | |
The previous Linotype GmbH is currently operating under the name of "Monotype GmbH" and is a company in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe that sells or licenses typefaces, so-called fonts , in digital form. The company offers a total of more than 12,000 fonts, around 8,000 of which are for use on the Internet.
In a broader sense, the name "Linotype" in the context of typesetting and printing technology previously referred to the Linotype typesetting machine and the associated company.
Company history
Initially, the product name “Linotype” referred to the typesetting machine developed by Ottmar Mergenthaler and first presented in 1886. In 1890 the product name "Linotype" appeared for the first time as part of the new company name Mergenthaler Linotype Company , based in Brooklyn New York . The origin of this company was the Mergenthaler Printing Co. , with which several American newspaper publishers financed Mergenthaler's work. The purpose of the company, established in 1890, was the production and sale of Linotype typesetting machines; this also included the Linotype type matrices.
At the end of the 19th century, Linotype & Machinery Ltd. was founded. , Manchester , England, and Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik GmbH in Berlin , Germany. Linotype typesetting machines and type matrices were manufactured in both countries; Both companies were financially connected to the American Mergenthaler Linotype Company . After 1945 the Linotype activities in Germany were continued under the company Linotype GmbH (based in Frankfurt am Main ).
Traditional type foundries such as D. Stempel AG , Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei and Deberny & Peignot have merged into the Linotype company over the years.
In 1987 the American, English and German Linotype companies were merged to form Linotype AG , headquartered in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main. In 1990 Linotype AG merged with the Kiel company Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH to Linotype-Hell AG in Eschborn. At that time, the group had around 5,250 employees worldwide.
In 1997, Linotype-Hell AG was taken over by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG . The core business of the previous Linotype-Hell AG was transferred to the prepress area of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. Only the newly founded Linotype Library GmbH continued to use "Linotype" as part of the company. This independent line of business took over the font and typography division of the former Linotype-Hell AG. Linotype Library GmbH was headquartered in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Germany.
At the end of 2005, Linotype Library GmbH changed its company name to Linotype GmbH .
Linotype GmbH has been part of Monotype Imaging Inc .; a company that continues the name of the former Monotype typesetting system after previous mergers . The previous Linotype GmbH has been operating as Monotype GmbH in Germany since March 2013.
Business areas
The business areas of Monotype GmbH are the distribution and licensing of digital fonts. In addition to licensing to private end customers (e.g. via the Internet), Linotype supports business customers in particular in implementing their corporate identity strategy by providing them with suitable fonts and providing advice on their use, and Linotype is also a partner for the Integration of digital fonts in products (e.g. fonts for display in mobile phones or set-top boxes) is available.
Monotype and Linotype have an extensive font library that has been collected over the decades, e. Sometimes very well-known fonts from different origins are composed and are constantly being further developed and supplemented. As examples of known writings of Linotype be mentioned are the families Palatino that of Microsoft for the operating system Windows as Palatino Linotype was adopted Zapfino that of Apple in the Mac OS X - the operating system has been integrated, or Frutiger , Helvetica , Sabon , Avenir and Univers , but also Wiesbaden Swing .
Since 2005, Monotype and Linotype have also made the font management program FontExplorer X available free of charge. Similar to Apple iTunes and the iTunes Store , it bridges the gap between managing, using and buying new fonts on computers with the Mac OS X operating system. The current version, FontExplorer X Pro, has not been free since the beginning of 2009.
Monotype had good relationships with many well-known font designers, such as B. Hermann Zapf or Adrian Frutiger . In the past, Linotype has repeatedly organized and sponsored conferences on the subjects of type technology (e.g. TypoMedia, TypoTechnica, ITDC) and type design (e.g. Kitabat).
literature
- Manfred Raether: "Linotype - Chronicle of a company name"; Self-published e-book, Schöneck 2009
- On February 3, 2012, a film about Linotype typesetting machines premiered in New York. A trailer can be seen on the Internet.
Web links
- History of Linotype chronologically in German
- Typomedia 2003 web page
- From the beginning to today's monotype
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Ed.): Lexicon of the German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ Presentation of the new Monotype brand ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Lisa Landa February 11, 2013
- ↑ Linotype GmbH adopts the name of its parent company and operates under the name Monotype GmbH from today ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Rebecca Schalber March 4, 2013
- ^ Monotype GmbH: Famous Linotype Fonts from the last decade - Linotype Font Feature. In: linotype.com. Retrieved March 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Linotype. The film ( English ) Retrieved on 25 May 2012 found.
