Monotype acquired Colophon
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I guess everybody is just too numb to comment anything constructive on these anymore.
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I can't keep up with updating my chart
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It's an ok library, I prefer their custom work, I think they're best when creatively directed from outside.2
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Nice chart! Just fyi Linotype was acquired in the summer of 2006.Grzegorz Luk (gluk) said:I can't keep up with updating my chart1 -
Some of the details on the right side of the chart are a little bit scrambled...
1988: Compugraphic was acquired by Agfa Gaevert and rebranded as Agfa.
1999: Monotype Typography was acquired by Agfa and rebranded as Agfa Monotype.
2000: ITC (including the Letraset faces) was acquired by Agfa Monotype from Esselta Letraset. (Esselta had acquired Letraset in the early 1980s, and then ITC in 1986.)
2004: Agfa Monotype was acquired by TA Associates and rebranded as Monotype Imaging.Finally, as a minor point, there should be an arrow going from (Agfa) Monotype to Ascender Fonts, which split off from Monotype in 2004.6 -
Mark Simonson said:Some of the details on the right side of the chart are a little bit scrambled...You're right, I treated the time before Agfa-Monotype very generally (even though these were important events in the history of typography). In my opinion it made the picture too complicated. I have also stopped including the names of many important typefaces...The scale of the Empire exceeded my capabilities, but I think the chart reflects the market situation
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FWIW, we try to keep track at Fonts In Use, too. No chart but text, with many links.The Swedish office supplies brand is named Esselte (not Esselta) – derived from Sveriges Litografiska Tryckerier (SLT).7
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Esselte (not Esselta)Oops. I knew that. Typo. Didn't know how the name was derived though—cool.0
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I might be nitpicky, but I also find their images a tad ageist. What, aren't type designers allowed to have gray hairs?
/jk
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There could be gray hair under one of those hats!0
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Or no hair?2
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