Linotype
Ottmar Mergenthaler’s composing machine, which cast whole lines in one piece; it transformed newspaper printing. The company later issued Helvetica and Palatino.
Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German watchmaker in Baltimore, built a machine that cast whole lines of text in metal as the operator typed on a keyboard. Typesetting became many times faster, and newspapers and books became cheaper.
Linotype became an international company and published typefaces such as Palatino, Optima and Frutiger and licensed Helvetica. After phototypesetting the company turned to digital fonts and has been part of Monotype since 2006.
Typefaces with Linotype in the name or specimen; lines cast in one piece.