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Hans Karl Gustav Möhring

Born in Halle, 1894, died in Ludwigsburg, 1958. Painter and commercial artist who was educated at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic Arts from 1912 to 1914 and from 1919 to 1920. Afterwards, he worked independently in Leipzig and Berlin. After the Second World War, he was active in Naumburg.

• At Genzsch&Heyse, he created Phalanx (1931; Jaspert says 1928), a monotone roman with thickened terminals.
• At C. E. Weber, he made the formal medium-weight script Gabriele (1938; both Hastings and Jaspert says this was done in 1947, so I am not sure), the script typeface Gladiator, and the Peignot-style sans serif capital font Florida (1931; cast by Wilhelm Woellmer in 1931 (as Jaspert claims) or 1932 (claim by Reichardt); it was cast in 1938 by C.E. Weber as well). It is unclear where Gladiator started as it is also reported by Schriftguss and by Typoart. Gabriele was digitally revived by Ralph M. Unger in 2017 as Gaby Pro. Ingmar Bergman often used Florida in his films, and that is why Rick Banks revived Florida as F37 Bergman in 2017.
• At D. Stempel, he made Elan (1928). Jaspert gives the date 1937. Frank Griesshammer, who did a digital revival of called Stempel Elan in 2009 (published by Linotype), claims it was done in 1936. In any case, Elan is an ugly heavy informal script.
• Still at D. Stempel, he made Elegant Grotesk (1928-1929), an art deco geometric sans typeface family of three weights and one inline that predates Futura by a few months. Elegant Grotesk is identical to Guildford Sans (Stephenson Blake: they changed the name). There is a digitization and major extension of Elegant Grotesk to four styles by Jo de Baerdemaker, called Elegant Contemporary (2009), and to twelve styles by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir, Guildford Sans (2011). The bilined typeface Elegante Lichte (1928) was revived by Nick Curtis as Relampago NF (2011). Another interpretation saw the light in 2015, (Schoener). Mathieu Cortat's revival was called Battling (2013). In the 1930s, Fonderies Centrales P. Dutreix published Universelles, which was a renamed version of Elegant Grotesk.

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