Dutch Type Library

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The Dutch Type Library is a pioneer of digital type entering the computer font market in the industry’s first decade. DTL is proudly independent since 1990.

Geschiedenis

In 1990, the Dutch Type Library started supplying exclusive digital typefaces after years of preparation. The company has since grown into the largest of its kind in The Netherlands. Attention is focused primarily on contemporary designs in the production of typefaces, but DTL also revives valuable historic types.

The Dutch Type Library feels bound to the rich typographic tradition of The Netherlands, and DTL's collection can be compared with the very best that the famous type foundries have produced in the past.

As font production at DTL became more professional and complex, the need for exclusive specialist font production software grew. In the second half of the 1990s, DTL started together with the programmers of URW++ Design & Development GmbH developing the DTL FontMaster modules for Mac OS, Windows and Linux.