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Franz Paul Glass

Franz Paul Glass (b. 1886, Munich, Germany, d. 1964) studied Industrial Design at the College of Arts and Crafts in Munich. Later, he became well-known for his poster designs. He created Glass Antiqua (1912-1913, Genzsch & Heyse), a typeface with a slight art nouveau influence (+Schraffierte Glass Antiqua). Nick Curtis made a bold digital typeface based on this called Half Full NF (2011). Denis Masharov made his digital font Glass Antiqua (2012) available for free at Google Web Fonts. Not to be outdone, Gert Wiescher added his Glass Light family in 2012 to the collection of revivals and extensions.

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file name: Gert Wiescher Glass Light 2012 after Glass Light Franz Paul Glass 1912e


file name: Denis Masharov Glass Antiqua 2012


file name: Denis Masharov Glass Antiqua 2012


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file name: Nick Curtis Half Full N F 2011 after Franz Paul Glass Glass Antiqua 1912b


file name: Nick Curtis Half Full N F 2011 after Franz Paul Glass Glass Antiqua 1912


file name: Franz Paul Glass Glass Antiqua 1913


file name: Genzsch Heyse Schraffierte Glass Antiqua 1926


file name: Franz Paul Glass Die Sechs Poster 1914


file name: Franz Paul Glass 1914







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