Typeshop was a group of photosetting studios in West Germany
(Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hamburg, Cologne,
Munich), but also with offices in Austria (Linz, Vienna) and the
Netherlands (Amsterdam). [Typeshop Serials 1983] According to
Elsner+Flake, there once were over 28 typeshops across Europe.
Founded by by Walter Florenz Brendel of Brendel & Pabst in
Düsseldorf before 1968.
The Brendel Type Studio also created their own exclusive
typefaces, known as Typeshop Serials. These are typically
adaptations of classics like Bodoni or
Times, but also of more recent designs, at least
partly unlicensed. They were expanded to cover a range of weights,
plus outline and shadow styles [Typeshop Serials 1983].
The type-making branch was later doing business as Brendel Informatik.
Some of the fonts were distributed in the early 1990s by B&P
Graphics [1993
ad] in
Dublin [Klingspor
Museum] and
La Grange, IL. Still being sold by various outlets including
The
Quick Brown Fox, TypeShop
Collection (by More…
Typeshop was a group of photosetting studios in West Germany (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich), but also with offices in Austria (Linz, Vienna) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam). [Typeshop Serials 1983] According to Elsner+Flake, there once were over 28 typeshops across Europe. Founded by by Walter Florenz Brendel of Brendel & Pabst in Düsseldorf before 1968.
The Brendel Type Studio also created their own exclusive typefaces, known as Typeshop Serials. These are typically adaptations of classics like Bodoni or Times, but also of more recent designs, at least partly unlicensed. They were expanded to cover a range of weights, plus outline and shadow styles [Typeshop Serials 1983].
The type-making branch was later doing business as Brendel Informatik. Some of the fonts were distributed in the early 1990s by B&P Graphics [1993 ad] in Dublin [Klingspor Museum] and La Grange, IL. Still being sold by various outlets including The Quick Brown Fox, TypeShop Collection (by Elsner+Flake), and SoftMaker.
Not related to Bitstream TypeShop, which was a CD-ROM with Bitstream’s entire typeface library (v1.0 from 1994 offered 1,085 typefaces for $1,089; TypeShop Pro followed in 1995 with 96 new additions).
