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Name: URW++ Design & Development
Form: GmbH, registered in the city of Hamburg
Place of Business: Poppenbütteler Bogen 36
D-22399 Hamburg
Tel. +49 40 606050
Fax +49 40 60605 111
E-Mail: info@urwpp.de
Internet: www.urw.de or www.urwpp.de
Court of jurisdiction: Hamburg
HRB No.: HRB 61076
VAT No.: USt-IdNr. DE 811 995 088
Managing Directors: Svend Bang, Peter Rosenfeld, Dr. Jürgen Willrodt
Date of Inception: January 1, 1996
   
Products and Activities: Software and font development in the areas:

- IKARUS for Type Design and Production
- DTL FontMaster Utilities
- Convertex (Document Exchange)
- Fonts and Logos
- Corporate Type
- Barcode Master
- Headliner
- Internet (missing.link)
URW++ has established itself in the graphic design industry by continually developing and marketing innovative font and software products.
Based on our technical font production skills, we are particularly successful in the area of corporate type development and production as well as a supplier of so-called world or global fonts for OEM customers.
Additionally, we distinguish ourselves by a comprehensive non-Latin font offering. Many of our popular Latin font designs are available in full WGL4 character set including Eastern European glyphs, Cyrillic as well as Greek! On top of that, we feature a fair variety of Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts (CJK). URW++ employs both Japanese and Chinese native speakers, and enjoys long-lasting partnerships in Tokyo and Shanghai.
We are well equipped to meet the growing demand in the OEM and Corporate Company market for so-called Global Fonts resp. World Fonts.

In addition to the development of URW++ software and type products, we have a number of strategic partnerships:

  1. Dutch Type Library (DTL), DT ‘s-Hertogenbosch
    DTL stands for ultra high-quality digital type designs. We are very proud to be DTL’s exclusive distribution partner in Germany. Based on our long-lasting friendship with DTL, we are developing the DTL Font Master Utilities together with Frank Blokland, president and founder of DTL. DTL Font Master was released in 2002 and is marketed to type designers successfully
  2. International Type Founders (ITF), Norristown, PA
    ITF is a US based font company, and we are ITF’s exclusive distribution partner in Germany. Moreover, we have started in 2002 to commonly design and produce new typefaces of American origin.
Mission Statement

We see ourselves, above all, as highly skilled technical font manufacturers and software engineers.

Besides the production and marketing of our font library, we continually develop our IKARUS font design and production software tools. We want to make sure that we meet the technical font requirements of our markets at all times in order to serve our customers in the best possible way.

Our target is to become a global font player offering OpenType fonts with global Unicode based character sets responding to the growing demand for such world fonts!
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History

1972
URW – Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber – founded in Hamburg, Germany. Start as a typical software developing company. Peter Karow join a little later

1975
IKARUS is introduced at ATypI (Association Typographique International) in Warsaw. Karow’s invention of font outline digitization provides an accuracy of 1/1000 of a millimeter – a level quality control not available before.

1976 – 1980
All major typeface manufactures of this time license URW´s IKARUS software system for font design and production, among them companies like Linotype Hell, Berthold, Letraset etc.
At the same time, IKARUS is expanded and refined by new functions such as serif control, modifications, Passe (hinting) and automatic digitizing.

1983
Presentation of first computer-controlled SIGNUS System for Signmakers; SIGNUS System to become the industry leader in Europe.
First URW font catalogue “1liner”, listings of about 750 fonts.
URW develops Long Kerning; Schnebel/Kemmle kern all URW fonts (10,000 pairs per font).
Purup, Danish laser composer manufacturer, orders a complete library of all URW fonts for text sizes. The URW font studio redesigns all URW fonts for text sizes including new spacing and long kerning.
Ever since, URW offers at least two design sizes, text and display.
 
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