Peter de Walpergen

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Peter de Walpergen German type designer (1646-1703) who practised in Oxford. He designed Roman and Italic cuts for Fell (the "Fell" types) in 1693. Jonathan Hoefler made a Fell type family based on this at the Hoefler Type Foundry. A fresh 5-weight Fell type family called Prudential was made in 2002 by Apostrophe for Prudential Insurance. In 2004, Igino Marini made a large number of revivals of the Fell types. The Gaelic typeface Saxon (ca. 1667) is tentatively credited by Michael Everson to him. The latter typeface was digitized as Junius (1996), named after Franciscus Junius (1589-1677), a pioneer in the study of Gothic and Anglo-Saxon who is famous for The Junius Manuscript, a compilation of Anglo-Saxon poems. Peter also made musical type, used, e.g., by Leonard Litchfield in Oxford for printing the Musica Oxoniensis in 1698. See here.	EXTERNAL LINKS Peter de Walpergen [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ History of type ⦿ Celtic/Gaelic fonts ⦿ German type scene ⦿

file name: Igino Marini I M Fell 2004

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