Foundry in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century, est. 1854. Faces include Renata (1901), Gasetny Chorny (Newspaper Black), Black Grotesk (1874), Yelisavetinsky (1904-1907), Obiknovennaya (1940s), Obiknovennaya Novaya (1940s), Standard Poster (a Paratype font by V. Yefimov, 1992, which was based on a design from 1986 at Polygraphmash, and which in turn was inspired by the fat didone styles of the Ossip Lehmann type foundry), and Elizabeth (1904-1907, after designs by Alexander Leo) [Elizabeth is a didone family for Baltic, Cyrillic and Latin with shapes that go back to the Russian Academy of Sciences in the 18th century].

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Ossip I. Lehmann Type Foundry
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INTERNAL LINKS
Foundries of the 19th century ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Extinct 20th century foundries ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿

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