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Linotype Authentic Sans Alternatives

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Last edited August 15, 2018

Linotype Authentic is a post-modern type system developed by the German designer Karin Huschka in 1999. With 30 individual styles, Linotype Authentic is broken up across four sub-families: Linotype Authentic Serif (8 styles), Linotype Authentic Stencil (6 styles), Linotype Authentic Sans (8 styles), and Linotype Authentic Small Serif (8 styles).The post-modern-ness of the Linotype Authentic system manifests itself through its stylistic qualities ("snap-on" serifs, small serifs, and stencil "white space" lines) as well as through the overall appearance of its letterforms. The letters seem to be built from a complex matrix system. Elements that would normally be full curved have been flattened out. The uppercase letters run condensed. Both the "serifs" and "small serifs" are of the slab serif variety. The "small serifs" are reminiscent of the sort of serifs found on Didone letters (i.e., Didot or Bodini).The Linotype Authentic fonts may be used in a wide array of point sizes, from small text (in moderate amounts) to headlines, titling, displays, book covers and posters. Linotype Authentic can set a mean logo in the right hands, too.

always
ultraviolets
The world without his nucleus

Linotype Authentic is a post-modern type system developed by the German designer Karin Huschka in 1999. With 30 individual styles, Linotype Authentic is broken up across four sub-families: Linotype Authentic Serif (8 styles), Linotype Authentic Stencil (6 styles), Linotype Authentic Sans (8 styles), and Linotype Authentic Small Serif (8 styles).The post-modern-ness of the Linotype Authentic... Read More

safety
microphysics
Please no bomb into the ash here

Linotype Authentic is a post-modern type system developed by the German designer Karin Huschka in 1999. With 30 individual styles, Linotype Authentic is broken up across four sub-families: Linotype Authentic Serif (8 styles), Linotype Authentic Stencil (6 styles), Linotype Authentic Sans (8 styles), and Linotype Authentic Small Serif (8 styles).The post-modern-ness of the Linotype Authentic... Read More

chalet
wunderkinder
Don’t treat me like a potato

Linotype Authentic is a post-modern type system developed by the German designer Karin Huschka in 1999. With 30 individual styles, Linotype Authentic is broken up across four sub-families: Linotype Authentic Serif (8 styles), Linotype Authentic Stencil (6 styles), Linotype Authentic Sans (8 styles), and Linotype Authentic Small Serif (8 styles).The post-modern-ness of the Linotype Authentic... Read More

vortex
microphysics
Courage is grace under pressure

ITC Johnston is the result of the combined talents of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, based on the work of Edward Johnston. In developing ITC Johnston, says London type designer Dave Farey, he did “lots of research on not only the face but the man.” Edward Johnston was something of an eccentric, “famous for sitting in a deck chair and carrying toast in his pockets.” (The deck chair was his... Read More

grapes
abstractions
Stick to coffee and alcohol

Diverda Sans is a geometric family of typefaces that are all free from ornament. Swiss designer Daniel Lanz optimized Diverda Sans for maximum legibility. In contrast to many other modern typefaces, which try to squeeze the traditional rounder forms of the alphabet into square designs, and which often attempt to equalize the widths of the capital letters, Diverda Sans remains true to the proper... Read More

replay
enthusiastic
He who laughs last thinks slowest

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Based on square forms, FF QType successfully walks the difficult line between pure geometry and legibility. Achaz Reuss used his years of... Read More

replay
ultraviolets
This freezer is out of control

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The successful Gill Sans® was designed by the English artist and type designer Eric Gill and issued by Monotype in 1928 to 1930. The... Read More

mystic
conceptional
In case of emergency, run like hell

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winter
conceptional
Stick to coffee and alcohol

Twentieth Century was designed and drawn by Sol Hess in the Lanston Monotype drawing office between 1936 and 1947. The first weights were added to the Monotype typeface library in 1959. Twentieth Century is based on geometric shapes which originated in Germany in the early 1920's and became an integral part of the Bauhaus movement of that time. Form and function became the key words,... Read More

replay
microphysics
Tether even a roasted chicken

The impetus behind Felbridge was both ambitious and highly practical: to develop an ideal "online" typeface for use in web pages and electronic media. Robin Nicholas, the family's designer, explains, "I wanted a straightforward sans serif with strong, clear letterforms which would not degrade when viewed in low resolution environments." Not surprisingly, the design also performs exceptionally... Read More

mystic
microphysics
Please do not sit on crocodile

Linex Sweet was designed by Albert Boton in the late 1990s. It's a smallish family of three weights; the middle weight has an italic companion face. With its soft corners and slightly quirky head-serifs, Linex Sweet is a friendly design that sees much use. Several years later, Boton began sketching a new design, based on the original Linex Sweet but with a little more authority and grace.Linex... Read More

mystic
enthusiastic
Don’t drink a car under alcohol

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On the way back to the airport from the 1994 ATypI conference in San Francisco, Albert-Jan Pool... Read More

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ultraviolets
The world without his nucleus

Compatil is the first comprehensive type system which enables all typographical elements to be used to full effect in order to reproduce the message conveyed by text information. Four different type styles with a total of 16 weights including italics have been merged into a unique typographical network. There are now no limits to the font user's creativity. The system is a product of technical... Read More

rocket
enthusiastic
It is warm and fragrant to hint

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Matthew Carter’s Verdana was made for screen reading and works brilliantly within that medium. FF Basic Gothic is a response to Verdana... Read More

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fiddlesticks
Freak out and drink all the liquor

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zygapophysis
Please do not get over it

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Century Gothic is based on Monotype 20th Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 1936 and 1947. Century Gothic maintains the basic... Read More

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illustrative
No burning enter this place

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With its well-defined characters that are readily legible even in the small font sizes, Mantika Sans by Jürgen Weltin is ideal for... Read More

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abstractions
Living to fry the beef rice

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Every year, more and more text is read directly on a computer screen in office applications, or from freshly printed sheets from a copier... Read More

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bureaucratic
Sunshade with the firm crust

The Azbuka™ typeface family has its roots in a fairly pedestrian source. “The idea came in part from an old sign in London that read ‘SPRINKLER STOP VALVE’,” says Dave Farey, designer of the typeface. Like all good sign spotters, Farey took a photograph of the sign and filed it away for possible use in a lettering or typeface design project. In Prague a number of years later, the street signs... Read More

brandy
wunderkinder
Blaze up the custom made of going

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Inspired by Edward Johnston's type for the London Underground and Eric Gill's Gill Sans®, Camphor™ is also informed by the European sans... Read More

brandy
japanophilia
Hell with the dog, beware of wife

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Developed over a ten year period, FF Balance is an experimental sans serif that subverts the conventions of the style. Its horizontal... Read More

grapes
ultraviolets
Irreverence is easy, wit is hard

The Ysobel™ typeface family is not only elegant; it is also exceptionally legible and space economical. A collaborative design effort between Robin Nicholas, as lead designer and project director, Delve Withrington and Alice Savoie of Monotype Imaging, the project had the primary design goal of creating a typeface family for setting text in newspapers and periodicals. The result, however, is... Read More

Karin Huschka
Linotype 1999
Karin Huschka
Linotype 1999
Karin Huschka
Linotype 1999
Gert Wiescher
Wiescher Design 2010
Dave Farey, Richard Dawson and Edward Johnston
ITC 1916
Daniel Lanz
Linotype 2004
Achaz Reuss
FontFont 2004
Gerd Sebastian Jakob and Joerg Ewald Meißner
Elsner+Flake 2000
Eric Gill
Monotype 1931
Jim Wasco
Monotype 2010
Stephenson Blake
Elsner+Flake
Sol Hess
Monotype 1959
Robin Nicholas
Monotype 2010
Albert Boton
Monotype 2003

Wiescher Design
Albert-Jan Pool
FontFont 1995

Elsner+Flake
Olaf Leu and Linotype Design Studio
Linotype 2001
Ong Chong Wah
Monotype
Hannes von Döhren and Livius Dietzel
FontFont 2010
William Addison Dwiggins
Bitstream
Gert Wiescher
Wiescher Design 2010
Monotype, Monotype.Design Studio and Sol Hess
Monotype 2007
Jürgen Weltin
Linotype 2011
Akira Kobayashi and William Addison Dwiggins
Linotype 2006
Eric Gill
Bitstream
Dave Farey and Richard Dawson
Monotype 2008
Nick Job
Monotype 2010
Evert Bloemsma
FontFont 1993
Robin Nicholas and Alice Savoie
Monotype 2009