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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,〔https://www.fontfont.com/designers Designers’ page on fontfont.com〕 among them renowned designers such as Peter Biľak, 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ir.monotype.com/investor-relations/press-releases/press-release-details/2014/Monotype-Acquires-FontShop-International/default.aspx )〕 The deal came as part of Monotype's takeover of many of the other large digital type retailers, including Linotype, Monotype, ITC, and Bitstream. == History == 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〔https://www.fontfont.com/news/categories/releases Release news on fontfont.com〕), 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 ƒStop and introduced it to the stock photography market. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FontShop International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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