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ABOUT

Friedrich Althausen

Potsdam, Germany-based designer (b. 1981) who studied Media Systems (Informatics) and Visual Communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar and is working as a freelance designer since 2008. Creator of the free fonts Vollkorn-Brotschrift (2006, text face), Elise Meincke logotype (didone), and Halbstark (2006, a fancy display face). Vollkorn microsite for the most recent downloads. Vollkorn supports many scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. In 2014, Vollkorn 3.0 was published. Open Font Library link. Site dedicated to Vollkorn.

In 2014, he published the thin but striking fashion mag and all caps titling typeface Uberschrift at FDI.

In 2020, he released the variable font CoronaFaceImpact, which has three axes, Effects from wearing a face mask, Change of look due to closed hairdressers, and Results of home schooling.

Behance link. Kernest link. Old URL. Interview with Friedrich Althausen. Google Plus link. Github link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Friedrich Althausen
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Fashion mag typefaces ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿