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German type foundry
Elsner+Flake is a trademark used by German type foundry originally called EF Designstudios, but later renamed Elsner+Flake Type Consulting GmbH, and is currently based in Hamburg. The company was founded in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake after their ten-year freelance experience in type design, typography and digitizing of fonts and logos.
The collection of digital fonts by Elsner+Flake numbers more than 2500. The fonts are available in Mac PostScript, PC PostScript, PC TrueType and Plain OpenType.