| Date: 1968
Designer:
Hell Design Studio
Foundry:
(Linotype) Hell
Location:
Frankfurt, Germany
Current equivalent:
No direct modern equivalent exists.
See also:
Linotype Digi-Grotesk N, Neuzeit Grotesk (shown above)
Technologies:
Digital Photosetting | | Famous for:
Early digital CRT typeface. Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting
Ubiquity:
Widely used.
Category:
Sans Serif Geometric
Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Sans Serif | | Design history:
One of the earliest digital fonts, developed for the German firm Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH, which had pioneered digital CRT phototypesetting during the 1960s. Digi-Grotesk was an attempt to make the sans serif form workable for setting longer texts. The S or N suffix refers to the two proportions; S being more aligned to existing classical proportions, while the N type is based on constructed geometrical forms as found in Futura or Neuzeit Grotesk. Despite being conceived as a digital font family of seven weights from light to heavy, with condensed versions, Digi-Grotesk S has not been translated to Postscript format. |
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