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Johannes Anton Hiero Rhode

German type designer, b. 1903 Nordhausen/Sachsen, d. 1954 Berlin. He made these faces:

• Humboldt Fraktur (1938, D. Stempel, digitized by Helzel, Delbanco (2001, as DS Humboldt Fraktur), Gerhard Helzel, and Dieter Steffmann (2005, 2002). It was named after the German researcher Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).
• The concave-stroked Hiero Rhode Roman (J. Wagner, 1945). The italic version of that typeface is due to Karl Hans Walter.
• Hiero Rhode Antiqua. This was revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli.

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