URW Type Foundry GmbH (formerly URW++ Design & Development GmbH) is a type foundry based in Hamburg, Germany. The foundry has its own library with more than 500 font families. The company specializes in customized corporate typefaces and the development of non-Latin fonts. It has been owned by Monotype Imaging since May 2020. URW was founded in 1971 by Gerhard Rubow and Jürgen Weber as a management consultancy, Rubow Weber GmbH. Soon, Peter Karow joined as a third partner and later the company was renamed URW Software & Type GmbH (short: URW, which stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber). In the following years, products were developed in the graphics industry: typesetting and layout programs for publishers for the use of Digiset, and software for the Chromacom image processing system developed by Hell Verein Kiel. More information...
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