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Johann Zainer

Johann Zainer (d. ca. 1523) was the second printe in Ulm, Germany. He is known, e.g., for printing the first German edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus. He used a gotico-antiqua typeface ca. 1477 for the printing of Jacques de Voragine's Legenda aurea and used it unti 1485. A revival of that typeface was undertaken in 2017 by Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas at a type design workshop at Hochschule Aachen and Stadtbibliothek Aachen. They called it Zainer Gotico-Antiqua 96G. In addition, Faudot and Ribas revived a richly decorated gothic initials typeface used by Zainer for the Spiritual Interpretations of the Life of Jesus Christ around 1478 (and used until 1480). They named that typeface Zainer Initials 45mm.

Github link where one can download the digital revivals.

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