type foundry stock photography fate acquired by monotype founded berlin germany 1990 1990 founders joan spiekermann erik spiekermann neville brody defunct july 14 2014 2014 07 14 headquarters berlin germany key people petra weitz ceo products fonts digital images website fontfont.com fontshop international is an international manufacturer of digital typefaces fonts based in berlin . it is one of the largest digital type foundries . the fontfont library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers 1 among them renowned designers such as peter bi ak evert bloemsma erik van blokland neville brody martin majoor albert jan pool hans reichel just van rossum fred smeijers and erik spiekermann . the aim of fontfont is to offer typefaces by designers for designers . fontshop international was acquired by monotype imaging on july 14 2014 . 2 the deal came as part of monotype s takeover of many of the other large digital type retailers including linotype monotype itc and bitstream . contents 1 history 2 company structure 3 fontfont 4 fontbook 5 stop 6 original fonts 6.1 erik spiekermann 6.2 martin majoor 6.3 akira kobayashi 6.4 xavier dupr 6.5 pascal zoghbi 7 literature 8 see also 9 external links 10 references history edit after founding the first german reseller of typefaces fontshop in 1989 joan spiekermann erik spiekermann and neville brody started an independent type foundry just one year later . they commissioned a few young type designers to make the first few fontfonts . the first font ever was ff beowolf by the dutch erik van blokland and just van rossum in 1990 . it was called a living font because it used a random feature of the postscript language to generate randomly different letter forms each time when printed . the library has grown over the years by numerous ff releases being 59 until may 2012 3 and is now one of the world s largest collections of contemporary type designs . between 1990 and 2000 fontshop international published together with neville brody 18 issues of the experimental typographical magazine fuse and organised several fuse conferences the forerunners of the annual european design conference typo berlin . in 2001 fontshop international founded their own stock photo agency called stop and introduced it to the stock photography market . company structure edit fontshop international is licensor for four fontshops in austria benelux germany and the united states . fontshop usa based in san francisco is owned by fontshop international ; all the other fontshops are separate independent companies concentrating on their own markets . while fontshop international publishes typefaces as a foundry the fontshops work as resellers of fontshop international s fontfonts but also of fonts from other foundries . fontshop international s legal form is gmbh . fontfont edit the main focus at fontshop international is the extension and maintenance of the fontfont typeface library . fonts published as fontfonts are always named using the prefix ff . besides text and headline fonts such as ff dax ff din ff meta ff quadraat and ff scala there are also special designs like the dirty or grunge typography typewriter font ff trixie the living font ff beowolf and digital handwriting fonts ff erikrighthand and ff justlefthand ff hands package . the library now consists of over different 700 font families . type designers may submit their own type designs for publication in the fontfont library . a committee of internal experts typeboard reviews submissions for aesthetical technical and marketing aspects and decides about publication in the library . a basic prerequisite is that the type designs are original . fontbook edit fontshop international is also publisher of the fontbook . the fontbook is an independent compendium of digital typefaces . the first edition was published in 1991 and revised and extended three times to show as many new and updated typefaces as possible . the latest fourth edition from september 2006 contains 1 760 pages with showings of 32 000 typefaces by 90 international foundries being the largest printed type reference book of the world . in addition to the type specimens users can find information about the type designer year of publication style category language versions and see also references to similar alternate typefaces . 4 in 2011 fontshop international published the first digital version of the fontbook . the ipad app contains 620 000 typeface specimens by 110 international type foundries . 5 stop edit fontshop international also publishes the image library stop named as a reference to the f numbers of photography . at present 22 000 royalty free photos by 150 photographers are offered december 2008 . the images are distributed directly as well as via some of the fontshops and getty images . original fonts edit erik spiekermann edit ff meta ff info ff govan ff unit ff meta serif ff real grotesque sans serif in the style of akzidenz grotesk but with optical sizes . martin majoor edit ff scala dutch inspired old style serif with similarities to joanna and the work of dwiggins . part of a font superfamily . ff scala sans scala s humanist sans companion ff scala jewels jewel font titling capitals ff seria ff seria sans ff nexus ff nexus sans ff nexus mix slab serif design akira kobayashi edit ff clifford serif font with optical sizes inspired by traditional english printing . 6 xavier dupr edit ff yoga ff yoga sans pascal zoghbi edit ff seria arabic literature edit spiekermann erik ; middendorp jan made with fontfont book industry services bis 2006 isbn 978 90 6369 129 5 thi truong mai linh ; siebert j rgen ; spiekermann erik fontbook digital typeface compendium fsi fontshop international 2006 isbn 978 3 930023 04 2 jubert roxane typography and graphic design from antiquity to the present . flammarion 2006 isbn 2 08 030523 9 schuler g nter typomarken markentypo die herkunft der schriften in libraries in publishing praxis 1 2 2008 . 14 . jahrgang deutscher drucker verlagsgesellschaft 2008 issn 0948 1931 see also edit fontshop external links edit fontfont fontshop fontbook fstop list of fonts on identifont references edit https www.fontfont.com designers designers page on fontfont.com monotype acquires fontshop international . monotype imaging holdings inc. retrieved 16 july 2014 . https www.fontfont.com news categories releases release news on fontfont.com https www.fontfont.com books fontbook on fontshop international s fontfont website https www.fontfont.com fontbook fontbook app on fontshop international s fontfont website kobayashi akira . akira kobayashi on ff clifford . fontfeed . retrieved 1 july 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fontshop international & oldid 734097121 categories type foundriescommercial type foundriesstock photographygraphic designtypographycompanies established in 1990companies based in berlincompanies of germany navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 12 august 2016 at 03 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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