Otto Weisert

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Otto Weisert Typefounder who ran the Schriftgiesserei Otto Weisert in Stuttgart. Designer of the prototypical Jugendstil font Arnold Boecklin in 1904 (available at URW, Linotype, Adobe, Mecanorma, and Softmaker [where it is known as Jugendstil]), and of the blackletter fonts Moderne Fette Schwabacher and Brabanter Gotisch (1905). He also made the great-looking Kalligraphia (digital forms at Linotype, URW, Scangraphic and Elsner&Flake). Some digital pictures of the 1890 catalog, which has a specially extensive series of caps faces: Arnold Boecklin, Moderne Fette Schwabacher, Kaiser Gothisch, more Kaiser Gothisch, , bike dingbat, village shouter dingbat, dromedary dingbat, Initialen 17-19, an "M", T and U initials, close-up of a U, Initialen 22-24. A catalog of digital typefaces that descend from Otto Weisert's work. See also here. And another one. FontShop link. View some digital implementations of Arnold Boecklin.	EXTERNAL LINKS Otto Weisert [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Art Nouveau typefaces ⦿ Ornamental caps typefaces ⦿ Bastarda / Bâtarde / Schwabacher ⦿