In the 1980s, the Linotype Corporation worked with the Design School in Basel, Switzerland, to create a new legibility typeface.

Professor Andre Gürtler oversaw the research project, with Reinhard Haus of Linotype. The goal was to create a typeface to work with contemporary typesetting and printing technologies.

Linotype released the result, LinoLetter, in 1992. More…

Legibility typefaces are designed for printing under the poorest and most varied of conditions; LinoLetter is therefore ideal for newspaper work as well as other mass-produced printed pieces.