Handbook for submission

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1. Greetings 2. About Linotype and the Linotype Library 3. Overview of the advantages 4. Requirements for “Type Selection Meeting” participation 5. Requirements for typeface licensing 6. Support and further information 7. Contact 8. Legal information

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We are pleased that you have submitted your designs to Linotype. The Type Selection Committee will judge your typeface designs for possible inclusion in the Linotype Library.

In this document you will find valuable information about Linotype GmbH, as well as useful tips and suggestions for submitting your typefaces to us. If you follow these suggestions, you will make it easier for us to judge your submitted typeface(s), and will improve your chances of being selected.

Linotype GmbH wishes you the best of luck.

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Why become a type designer with Linotype?

Tradition and Market What would the world be without type? Everywhere you look – in newspapers, magazines, and in the streets – you can find typefaces from Linotype. Type is culture, and Linotype’s typefaces have decisively influenced typography.

Linotype is the source of the originals. When you release your typefaces through Linotype, you join the company of renowned designers, such as: Neville Brody, , , Karlgeorg Hoefer, Akira Kobayashi, Hans Eduard Meier, Peter Matthias Noordzij, Gottfried Pott, Gerard Unger, and even Hermann Zapf; as well as their famous typefaces: Arcadia™, Arioso™, Bell Gothic™, Carolina™, Caecilia™, Frutiger™, ™, ™, ™ Shelley™, Sho™, Swift™, Syntax™, and Univers™.

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Linotype GmbH is the legitimate successor to the following historical type foundries and manufactures: Deberny & Peignot, Haas, the Rudhard’sche Gießerei, the Brothers Klingspor, Linotype Ltd., Mergenthaler Linotype Co., D. Stempel AG, Dr.- Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH, Tetterode, etc. Our typefaces like Helvetica, Times™, Frutiger, Univers, Palatino, and Optima have become worldwide standards – not only in the printing industry, but also in the entire publish market. Over 120 years of experience in the design and production of typefaces is the guarantee for our high level of quality. New typefaces like ™, Linotype Centennial™, Fairfield™, PMN Caecilia™, Herculanum™, Present™, Vectora™, and ™ win more and more importance in the market with every passing year. Typefaces from the Linotype Library are available in various font formats. They are used on different platforms and in varying resolutions for printers, plotters, pre-press proofing machines, printing presses, and computer monitors. You will also find our typefaces in applications where the highest level of quality is necessary, such as television, multimedia, mobile telephony, and navigation systems. Many corporations use our typefaces to help support their products and brands. The largest software manufacturers in the world, like Microsoft® Corporation and Apple® Computers, have licensed Linotype fonts for use in their operating systems.

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Technology and Know-How Linotype GmbH possesses all knowledge necessary to turn a good typeface idea into a font meeting the highest standards. The typefaces from Linotype are produced according to the newest technical benchmarks as OpenType®, PostScript®, and TrueType® format fonts for Windows/PC and the Macintosh®. We produce typefaces for all known formats and operating systems. Linotype employs typeface experts and software engineers who are able to answer all specific questions you may have. All selected typefaces are only released for sale after they have been thoroughly tested by Linotype’s staff, ensuring that all necessary corrections and optimizations have been made, in order to allow for error-free use in customer applications.

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Protection for Type Designers Linotype GmbH licenses over 30,000 fonts, making it one of the largest font libraries in the world. We see ourselves as fair partners for type designers, and we are pleased to offer attractive licensing agreements that allow active participation in a typeface’s success. The wording of our license agreement can be read on the Linotype website. As a Linotype designer, you will receive a regular, half-yearly statement detailing your licensing royalties. Linotype GmbH undertakes many options to protect the rights of your typefaces, including registering your typeface’s design and trademarking its name. These processes assess fees, which are covered by Linotype, and which protect the intellectual property of both type designers and Linotype. It is only possible to protect against font piracy if these actions are taken. Therefore it is necessary to ensure that typefaces we license have not been published before their registration.

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• Tradition-rich producer and distributor; the source of the originals. • Large, world-wide partner network. • Extensive marketing activities, including advertisements, catalogs, booklets, brochures, direct mail to customers, and the Linotype Matrix, a magazine for type lovers. • “Web Shop” with attractive offers and typeface information across over 2000 individual pages. Background information about our type designers is also displayed. • The font management application FontExplorerX, with its integrated “Online Store.” • Presentation of our library at international events. • Linotype organizes conferences, too: typo[media], and TypoTechnica, for instance. • Linotype has organized several international competitions. • Fair license agreements, with half-yearly licensing statements. • At Linotype’s expense, typefaces will be registered for a design patent from the European Patent Office wherever possible. • International registration of trademarks and design patents. • Persecution of font piracy and trademark-infringement. • Individual Linotype type designer web pages. • Design and technical “Know How” resources; our fonts are produced according to the highest standards. They undergo constant tests and revisions to ensure support in various operating systems and applications. • Technical and design support of designers by Linotype’s specialists.

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Timeline After your submit your typeface design(s) to us, we will send you a notice informing you that we have received it. After it is presented during the “Type Selection Meeting”, you will receive a notice regarding our decision whether or not to accept your type design. Materials that you send to us will be handled confidentially; however, they will not be returned. (The “Type Selection Meeting” is a meeting at which Linotype’s experts analyze typeface submissions, and decide whether or not they should become part of the Linotype Library.)

Desired Submission Format In general, all kinds of formats may be sent in to Linotype. The single requirements are that you depict you font on paper or in a PDF, and that you fill out our questionnaire form and send it along with the typeface submission. (Typeface description.pdf)

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Font Formats Linotype will only license digital fonts that have been generated in OpenType format, or that are delivered as native font files from one of the Mac or PC/Windows font creation programs (i.e., Fontographer, FontLab, etc.). These computer files should be mailed to Linotype on a CD-ROM.

Ownership Requirements 1. The licensor must have designed the submitted typeface themselves. 2. The licensor must be the copyright holder of the submitted typeface. 3. The licensor must be the owner of the selling rights to the submitted typeface.

Layout/Character Set Fonts that are to be licensed must include the minimum keyboard layout and character set defined in the license agreement. You will get the keyboard layout together with your license agreement.

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Font Editing and Creation Programs Demo-versions of font creation programs may be found and downloaded from www.fontlab.com.

Keyboard Layout A sample of keyboard layout is available on request.

Test Documents A test document may be found in various file formats on our website. Submitting this test document helps us judge how a typeface performs in real-life use, and shows if the font is properly spaced (Font Submission Test).

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Please send your typeface submissions to:

Linotype GmbH Werner-Reimers-Straße 2–4 61352 Bad Homburg Germany Attention: Type Selection Meeting

Telefone: +49 (0) 6172 484-434 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.linotype.com

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Copyright © 2008 Linotype GmbH. All rights reserved. The contents of this document are the property of Linotype GmbH and may not be reproduced by any method, electronic or photographic, without the expressed written permission of Linotype GmbH and/or its subsidiaries. Avenir, Arcadia, Arioso, Carolina, Linotype Centennial, Bell Gothic, PMN Caecilia, Fairfield, FontExplorer, Frutiger, Helvetica, Herculanum, Linotype, Linotype Library, Palatino, Present, Optima, Shelley, Sho, Swift, Syntax, Times, Univers, Vectora and Zapfino are trademarks of Linotype GmbH, and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other products or name brands are trademarks of their respective holders. Throughout this document trademark names are used. Rather than placing a trademark in every occurrence of a trademarked name, we state that we are using the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. Linotype GmbH assume no responsibility and liability for information. Recommandations, any errors and descriptions as far as third-party products are concerned are excluded from responsibility and liability. This document was created using the Linotype Univers typeface family.

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