Named after Adobe's PostScript™ page description language, Lineto was founded in 1993 by Cornel Windlin and Stephan Müller. Initially releasing through FontFont, Lineto.com launched in 1998 as Switzerland's first digital type foundry trading online.

Windlin and Müller invited friends to publish alongside them: Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs of NORM, Urs & Jürg Lehni, Rafael Koch, Martha Stutteregger, Jonas Williamsson and Laurent Benner of Reala, Marco Walser and Valentin Hindermann of Elektrosmog, Jon Hares, James Goggin, Nico Schweizer and Masahiko Nakamura. The platform grew continuously, adding Laurenz Brunner, Aurèle Sack and Kobi Benezri, and re-launching with Jürg Lehni's new website in 2004.

Since then, a new generation joined the operation, developing the library and broadening its range. Today, Lineto connects independently working designers and art directors from the US, Chile, the UK, France, Sweden, Norway, Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea and Switzerland.

The foundry consists of graphic designers who occasionally focus on type for their own work. The library reflects their tastes and obsessions. Drawing from their passion for creating type, they serve the widest range of users, beyond their own community of designers focused on editorial design and publishing.

Lineto delivers to both small studios and leading global corporations, providing tailor-made type solutions executed to the highest standards.

Lineto sees type design as an artistic domain exposed to the challenges of rapid technological developments. Type needs to tickle the mind and please the eye, while functioning faultlessly as software.

Approaching their eclectic aesthetic interests with a contemporary perspective, Lineto is dedicated to the research, design, development and production of fresh and original typefaces, unique in concept, exquisite in design, and flawless in production. And, as they believe, inimitable in result.