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Linotype (originally Mergenthaler Linotype) is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It became the world’s leading manufacturer of book and newspaper typesetting equipment; outside North America, its only serious challenger for book production was the Anglo-American Monotype Corporation.

In the 1980s Linotype began to exploit its font libraries for other equipment, including an agreement with Adobe Systems to make some of the most famous Linotype fonts available in PostScript Type 1 format.

In 1997 Linotype Library was formed as a separate division of the Heidelberg Group, under the leadership of Bruno Steinert, and since then it has developed one of the world’s largest font libraries. It is based in Bad Homburg, Germany.

In 2005 Linotype Library changed its name to Linotype GmbH, and in August 2006 Linotype GmbH was acquired by Monotype Imaging, with the intention of maintaining Linotype as a separate identity.

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