Birthday Boys
There are some famous birthdays this month: Paul Renner - August 9thPaul Rand - August 14thJonathan Hoefler - August 22nd
All in the family
So it appears that Monotype Imaging has just purchased Linotype GmbH. Monotype is probably best known to designers as resellers of typefaces. Also, according to their website: “We supply font and imaging solutions to OEMs of printers and MFPs, manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices such as mobile phones and set-top boxes, developers of system software …