In the 1980s, the Linotype Corporation worked with the Design School in Basel, Switzerland, to create a new legibility typeface.

Professor Andre Gürtler oversaw the research project, with Reinhard Haus of Linotype. The goal was to create a typeface to work with contemporary typesetting and printing technologies.

Linotype released the result, LinoLetter, in 1992.

Legibility typefaces are designed for printing under the poorest and most varied of conditions; LinoLetter is therefore ideal for newspaper work as well as other mass-produced printed pieces.