Digital Sans is the first digital adaptation of
Marty Goldstein’s Sol,
made “in the mid 1970s in Germany by Walter Brendel for the
phototypesetting system Unitype used by the TypeShop Group, in
three widths and under the name ‘Digital Part of the Serial
Collection.’ Based on the versions by VGC, Thin, Plain, Heavy and
Fat, new versions were then created with appropriate stroke and
width adaptations for data sets for the fonts Light, Medium and
Bold as well as for the corresponding italics.” It was licensed by
Elsner+Flake in the mid-1990s. [Elsner+Flake]
Available in digital form as EF Digital Sans
(Elsner+Flake). Also sold as Digital TS (TypeShop
collection) and Digital Serial (SoftMaker). Digital (The
Font Company, 1992) has an ‘e’ with horizontal bar. See also
Digital More…
Digital Sans is the first digital adaptation of Marty Goldstein’s Sol, made “in the mid 1970s in Germany by Walter Brendel for the phototypesetting system Unitype used by the TypeShop Group, in three widths and under the name ‘Digital Part of the Serial Collection.’ Based on the versions by VGC, Thin, Plain, Heavy and Fat, new versions were then created with appropriate stroke and width adaptations for data sets for the fonts Light, Medium and Bold as well as for the corresponding italics.” It was licensed by Elsner+Flake in the mid-1990s. [Elsner+Flake]
Available in digital form as EF Digital Sans (Elsner+Flake). Also sold as Digital TS (TypeShop collection) and Digital Serial (SoftMaker). Digital (The Font Company, 1992) has an ‘e’ with horizontal bar. See also Digital Sans Now. Modaerne is a copy by WSI.
Not to be confused with Digital Sans (Blaze Type, 2023).
