In 1983, URW developed a system for cutting different lettering and figures into colored, self-adhesive foils for outdoor advertising.

In 1975, Ikarus, a program that can digitally store the contours of a letter together with all necessary information for electronic typesetting, was introduced, becoming a standard in the type industry.

For the revision and manipulation of single letters or whole groups of characters, URW developed a graphical editor and a multitude of programs to make fonts digitally available for different typesetting systems.

On January 1, 1996, he transferred the sole proprietorship, together with Dr. Jürgen Willrodt, Jochen Lau and Svend Bang, into a Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung.

[citation needed] URW was involved in the development of corporate typefaces for Daimler, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, General Motors,[5] and Activision Blizzard.