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The X. Tage der Typografie (or: typohochzehn) were held from 22-25 May 2008 at the Institut für Bildung, Medien und Kunst in Lage-Hörste, Germany. Speakers included Indra Kupferschmid (workshop on titling), Jan Middendorp (ten years type design), Paul van der Laan (pixel font workshop), Renate Dölzer and Angelika Götz (calendar design workshop), Tanja Huckenbeck and Peter Reichard (poster workshop), and Ralf de Jong (book design). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The XI. Tage der Typografie were held from 9-11 October 2009 in Düsseldorf, with the cooperation of Akademie Druck+Medien NRW and Mediencommunity 2.0. The head honchos are Tanja Huckenbeck and Peter Reichard. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The XII. Tage der Typografie were held from 5-7 November 2010 in Düsseldorf, with the cooperation of Akademie Druck+Medien NRW. The head honchos are Tanja Huckenbeck and Peter Reichard. Speakers include Victor Malsy (Willich), Mathieu Lommen (Amsterdam) and Alessio Leonardo (Berlin). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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The XIII. Tage der Typografie were held from 11-13 November 2011 in Düsseldorf, with the cooperation of Akademie Druck+Medien NRW. The head honchos were Tanja Huckenbeck and Peter Reichard. Speakers included Andrea Schmidt and Uta Schneider. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The "21. Bundestreffen des Forum Typografie" took place in Hannover, Germany, from 11-13 June 2004. Speakers include Underware, Tarek Atrissi, Ruedi Baur, Andreas Maxbauer, Hermann Lúbbe und Walter Hellmann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
26plus zeichen
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Other faces from 2009-2010 (all at 26plus-zeichen) include Singula, Edelsans (a geometric sans), Sinews (a manly sans which he compares with Klavika and Corpid), JJ Realis (a Swiss sans), Ugl-y (2010), Cojonna (2010; curly--an exercise on ball terminals), Capitalis Nova (2010, dot matrix family), Graphit (2010), Devion (2010, semi-angular serif face), Textrusion (2010, Escher-style trompe l'oeuil), Frgmt (2010, experimental), Samblone (2011, an Asian-look stencil face), TJ Evolette A (2011, with Timo Titzmann---a fashionable geometric grotesque caps family). Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Two day meeting on January 19-20 2005 at the Fachhochschule Dortmund (Germany) organized by Stefan Claudius. Speakers: Dirk Uhlenbrock (Signalgrau), Natascha Dell (Fontzine), Joerg Hemker (Herr Hemker), Verena Gerlach (Frau Gerlach), Peter Bruhn (Fountain), Joost Korngold, Walter Pamminger, Peter Bilak (Typotheque), 3deluxe, Underware. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The "6. Tage der Typografie" were held from 10-13 June 2004 at the Institut für Bildung, Medien und Kunst in Lage-Hörste, Germany. In German. Speakers include Peter Reichard (on stencil types), Ingo Krepinsky, Etienne Giradet (on typo-voyeurs), and Gabine Heinze and Michael Touma (on star symbols). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The "7. Tage der Typografie" were held from 26-29 May 2005 at the Institut für Bildung, Medien und Kunst in Lage-Hörste, Germany. In German. Speakers include Ralf de Jong, Kai Büschl, Peter Reichard, Tanja Huckenbeck, Ingo Krepinsky, Stefan Krömer, and Gabine Heinze. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
70th Birthday laudatio
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The 9. Tage der Typografie was held from 7-10 June 2007 at the Institut für Bildung, Medien und Kunst in Lage-Hörste, Germany. The theme is Noblesse oblique. Speakers include the Typonauten (Ingo Krepinsky and Stefan Krömer), Dan Reynolds, and the Spatium people (Tanja Huckenbeck and Peter Reichard). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of these blackletter typefaces: Block Fraktur (1914-1915, Berthold), Stuttgarter Fraktur (1915, Berthold). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A hundred dollars and a dog
| German design company run by Isabelle Gehlmann and Stefan Ruetz. Stefan designed the free futuristic typeface Bert (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typefoundry in Köln, Germany. On October 1, 1875, Franz Otto Claus---an employee at J. G. Schelter & Giesecke in Leipzig---became a partner in Kafemann's foundry. In 1882, Franz Otto Claus continued the foundry by himself as J. G. Francke Nachfolger. This foundry produced Danziger Fraktur in 1886. In 1895, Otto Claus, the son of Franz Otto, became a partner. The latter died in 1905. otto Claus himself sold the foundry in 1908 to John Seyfert in Danzig. Seyfert in turn sold the company in 1912 to the company Otto Tech in Berlin. That company was partly absorbed by H. Berthold AG and partly by Emil Gursch in 1917. Footnote: Danziger Fraktur was digitally revived by Gerhard Helzel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ABC Design
| Johannes Birkenbach (b. 1956, Ludwigshafen) began his career with D. Stempel AG in 1983 drawing typefaces and moved to digital typeface design and development while working at Linotype in Germany and then Monotype in the UK. Since 1994 Johannes has operated his own design studio, ABC Design, and has worked with Ascender since 2004 on many font projects. In 2008, he joined Ascender Corp and is associated with its German branch. Based in Pirmasens, Germany, his fonts include the Bijoux, Palazzo Caps (1997), Palazzo Text (2004), Jeunesse (1993), Jeunesse Slab (1993), Jeunesse Sans (1993), Cicero Caps (1996), Ambiente (2004), Jocelyn, Jonas, Ulissa, and Perrywood (Monotype, 1993). Klingspor link. Fontshop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Berlin-based company that sells these school fonts: TrueType-Schulschriften (including Lateinische Ausgangsschrift mit 1, 2, und 4 Linien, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift mit Lineaturen, Schulausgangsschrift, Druckschriften Hamburg und Bayern, MO-MARA, auch mit angepassten Buchstaben für die 1. Klasse, Schwungübungen für die Schreibschriften, mit und ohne Linien), TrueType-Rätselschriften (which includes mainly dingbat fonts), and TrueType-Schulpiktogramme (dingbats such as Symbole und Sinnbilder für den Schulalltag, Anlautschriften, Bausteinschriften, Kästchenschriften, Matheschriften mit dem Zahlenstrahl, Rahmenschriften, Spaßschriften und Symbole, Uhren). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the Bank Gothical sans family FF QType (2004) in Condensed, Compressed, Extended, SemiExtended and Square versions. In 2007, he created Bodoni Stencil (URW++). Other URW creations include Latin, Nimbus Roman Moern Compress, URW Compress and URW Oklahoma (art deco). View Achaz Reuss's typefaces. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. Catalog of his faces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer based in Paris, who makes experimental commercial fonts at "For Home or Office Use" (Frankfurt). One of his families is called Lini (2000, semi-technical). Others: 2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klinspor, 161Try-Bitter, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Lini Eins, Lini Drei, Lini-Viers, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi, WIR 7Vi Fat. Achim also runs Vier5 with Marco Fiedler, a graphic design studio. At Vier5, he published the experimental face SVT (2010) and the futuristic angular Shake (2010), which was originally designed for the Centre d'art Contemporain de Brétigny in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Achim Stump
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ACME Fonts (or: CHK Design)
| Started in 1996, by Christian Küsters and Andy Long (from South London), ACME Fonts is a London-based foundry, offering fonts by Küsters and these designers: Anthony Burrill, Gérard Paris-Clavel&Johannes Bergerhausen, Jean-Lou Désiré, Paul Farrington, Robert Green, Paul Kehra, Henrik Kubel, Simon Piehl, Alex Rich, Carsten Schwesig, Sandy Suffield, Dirk Wachowiak, Anne Wehebrink and Paul Wilson. Christian Küsters is an ex-student of Matthew Carter at Yale. Born in Germany, he now lives in Oberhausen. Buy the fonts at Font Factory or MyFonts. The company evolved, I guess, into CHK Design. Interview. Klingspor link. The ACME font list:
View ACME's typefaces. Acme's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Acrylnimbus
| Acrylnimbus offers the free fonts made by Tot Mischstab in 1998-1999: MischstabApfelsaft, MischstabAvocadoTrauma, MischstabDecibelRepulse, MischstabOblivion, MischstabOpiumRiver, MischstabPopanz, MischstabPortionControl, MischstabSugarSweet, MischstabThirdEcho, MischstabUmbrellaPatina, MischstabZahnschwein. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German designer of the graffiti font Los Vatos Locos (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Actiontype.de
| German designers of some experimental 2d and 3d fonts, under the guidance of Professor Tanja Diezmann from the Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau. Fonts include Isometrie (sans), Actiontype Bold (3d), Actiontype Light, Actiontype Serif (slab serif). Using these fonts as base models, several random fonts were constructed by interpolation. Actiontype is managed by Marcus Schaefer in Dessau. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Adam Bell
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Adam Numrich
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German creator of a Herbert Bayer-inspired lower case typeface that was developed during a workshop with Lucas De Groot in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adam Twardoch
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Adaylife
| Adaylife is the Berlin-based foundry of Hee Jun Kim. He published the squarish sans family ADIL Sans, the script face Love Letter, and the art deco face Rolly Pops in 2010. In 2012, he created the super-fat counterless octagonal Korean typeface Nemo Nemo Hanguel. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Blackletter type designer: Urdeutsch (1924-1925, Genzsch&Heyse). See the digital revival by Petra Heidorn (2004). Free download of that font at Dafont. Notes: The sample at Klingspor's site uses Heidorn's font, but no credit is given to her there. Schnelle spells Heimberg's name Heimberger. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Or Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler, who was active in Strasbourg from 1460-1489. The first roman antiqua north ofv the Alps is ascribed to him in 1464. The consensus is that this was not as pretty as the later types by Griffo et al. Nevertheless, Shane Brandes did a large digital revival of his antiqua in 2013 and called it Rusch. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adriana Esteve Hernandez
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Adriprints
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Her fonts include Kicks (2012, a fun hand-printed typeface for children's books), Stitching Kit (2010, dings), Fiddleshticks (2009), Sorbet and Sorbet Wide (2009, like architectural letters), Fancypants (2010, curly lettering), Stitchin Crochet (2009, dingbats), Trellis (2009, handprinted), and Draft Punk (2009, comic book style). Font Squirrel link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Agnese Pagliano
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Aidfonts (was: Antropos)
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Baar published these typefaces with Linotype: Atlantis, Linotype Kaliber, Linotype Balder (1994), Linotype Ordinar (2000), Linotype Pisa (1997), Feltpen, Nordica (chiseled typeface). Nice fonts at old Antropos site included: Aristoteles, Platonia, Andromeda, Zeitgeist, Artemis, Andromeda Engschrift, BaarAntropos, BaarAntroposAidfont, BaarAntroposBold, BaarAntroposBoldItalic, BaarAntroposCaps, BaarAntroposDisplay, BaarAntroposEngschrift, BaarAntroposItalic, BaarGoetheanis (2002), BaarLemuria (2002), BaarMetanoia (2002), BaarMetanoiaBold, BaarMetanoiaBoldItalic, BaarMetanoiaItalic, BaarPhilos, BaarPhilosBold, BaarPhilosBoldItalic, BaarPhilosItalic, BaarSophia (2002), BaarSophiaBold, BaarSophiaBoldItalic, BaarSophiaItalic, BaarZeitgeist. He founded Menschengeist and Aidfonts (2005), where one can download his Sophia, Metanoia and Philos families. Dafont link. Linotype link. FontShop link/ Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Catalog of Lutz Baar's commercial typefaces. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Description of the main type work at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Stuttgart. The big names there were Walter Brudi, J.V. Cissarz, F.H.E. Schneidler and Walter Veit. From 1920-1948, F.H.E. Schneidler was head of the graphics division of the Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Some stencil alphabet by them (ca. 1930), and later digitized by "Mindofone" as free art deco stencil typeface Glas Deco (2012). Other examples [taken from the book Handsatzschriften des Instituts für Buchgestaltung an der Staatlichen Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart von Walter Brudi, J.V. Cissarz F.H.E. Schneidler und Walter Veit include Veit Antiqua (Walter Veit), Brudi Mediaeval, Brudi Kursiv and Pan (Walter Brudi), Cissarz-Latein. The following typefaces are by F.H.E. Schneidler: Amalthea, Bayreuth, Buchdeutsch Zierbuchstaben, Buchdeutsch, Deutsch Roemisch Fett, Deutsch Roemisch Kursiv, Deutsch Roemisch, Die Zierde, Ganz Grobe Gotisch, Graphik, Halbfette Buchdeutsch, Halbfette Deutsch, Halbfette Schneidler Schwabacher, Juniperus Antiqua, Kontrast, Legende, Schmalfetten Gotisch, Schneidler Antiqua, Schneidler Fraktur Zierbuchstaben, Schneidler Mediaeval Halbfett, Schneidler Mediaeval Kursiv, Schneidler Mediaeval, Schneidler Schwabacher Initialen, SSchneidler Untergrund, Schneidler Werk Latein, Schneidler Zierat, Schneidler, Suevia Fraktur Initialen, Zentenar Fraktur Halbfett, Zentenar Fraktur, Zentenar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Rounded sans in Japan. View Akiro Kobayashi's typefaces. Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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German type designer. He created Mönchs-Gotisch (or: Mediaeval-Gotisch) in 1877 (Schnelle says 1881) at Genzsch & Heyse. In 1876, he made Neue Schwabacher (normal and halbfett) at Genzsch & Heyse (and Klinkhardt). That same type can also be found at J. John&Söhne and at JG Shelter&Giesecke. Author/editor of Kunstwerke der Schrift Bund für deutsche Sprache und Schrift (Großenkneten 1994). Digital revivals include Schwabacher Mager Gross and Möncgs-Gotisch, both by Gerhard Helzel. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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He designed Faust-Antiqua (1958; this inspired Nick Curtis to design Kaprice NF (2010); in 1993, Steve Jackaman revived it as Faust RR), Leipzig (with Otto Erler in 1963: large x-height), Leipziger-Antiqua (1959, revived by Tim Ahrens in 2004 as JAF Lapture, also digitized--close to the original and under the original name--by Ralph Unger at URW in 2005; and shamelessly digitized by Linotype and sold as Hawkhurst without mentioning the Leipziger Antiqua source, in fact claiming that Hawkhurst is an original), Calendon-Antiqua (1965), Prillwitz-Antiqua (1971), and Magna Kyrillisch (1975). Circa 1975, he created Garamond Cyrillic at Typoart. A specialist of blackletter, he was passionate about Gotische Bastarda. Author of Fraktur: Form und Geschichte der gebrochenen Schriften (1993, H. Schmidt, Mainz). Max Caflisch, Albert Kapr, Antonia Weiss and Hans Peter Willberg published F.H.Ernst Schneidler Schriftentwerfer, Lehrer, Kalligraph (SchumacherGebler a.o., München, 2002). Author of The art of lettering; The history, anatomy, and aesthetics of the roman letterforms (München, K.G. Saur, 1983, original edition in German by VEB Verlag: Dresden, 1971). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer (b. Oberlauringen/Unterfranken, 1870, d. 1948). He created Edelgotisch (1901, J.G. Schelter&Giesecke). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (b. Friedberg, 1878, d. 1967) of Windisch Kursiv (1917, Klingspor). He lived in Frankfurt. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch writer and designer, b. 1960, Amsterdam, who currently lives in Hamburg. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. From 1987 until 1991 he was the type director at Scangraphic, and from 1991-1994, he was the type manager at URW in Hamburg, at which time he completed URW Imperial, URW Linear, and URW Mauritius. In 1994 he started his own studio Dutch Design in Hamburg, and finally he co-founded FarbTon Konzept+Design with Jörn Iken, Birgit Hartmann and Klaus-Peter Staudinger, a professor at the University of Weimar, but Pool, Iken anf Hartmann left FarbTon in 2005. Their corporate partners were DTL (Frank Blokland), URW++ (mainly for hinting), and Fontshop International. They also got freelance help from Nicolay Gogol and Gisela Will. Up until today, FarbTon has made about ten corporate types. He has worked at URW++ as a freelancer, contributing text and classification expertise to the book URW++ FontCollection. He has been teaching typeface design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel between 1995 and 1998 and has taken up that job again in 2005. Fonts done by Pool include FF DIN (DIN-Mittelschrift is used on German highway signs, 1995; image, another image: for more images, see FF DIN Round at issuu.com), FF DIN Round (2010; +Cyrillic; in use; sample), FF DIN Web (2010), Jet Set Sans (for JET/Conoco gas stations), DTL Hein Gas (for Hamburger Gaswerke GmbH), Regenbogen Bold (for a radical left party in Hamburg, a roughened version of Letter Gothic), and Syndicate Sans (2012, for Syndicate Design). He also made FF OCR-F. Together with type-consultant Stefan Rugener of AdFinder GmbH and copywriter Ursula Packhauser he wrote and designed a book on the effects of type on brand image entitled Branding with Type (Adobe Press). An expert on DIN typefaces, he spoke about DIN 16 and DIN 1451 at ATypI 2007 in Brighton, and wrote an article entiotled FF DIN, the history of a contemporary typeface in the book Made with FontFont. Pic. | |
Albert-Jan Pool
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Fonts derived from his geometric constructions of the roman capitals include P22 Durer Caps (2004, P22, Terry Wüdenbachs) and Hands on Albrecht (2005, MichelM, URW++). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Handbuch der Schriftarten (Leipzig, 1926), a nearly comprehensive listing of all types at all German type foundries at that time. Just the name index of the types takes 38 pages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Her graduation typeface was Pilot (2012, angular display and signage style). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alessio Leonardi
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Alex Hy
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Alex Rütten
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Alexander Branczyk
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German designer Alexander Dosiehn created the font Liga Sans (2001, Linotype). It was part of his graduate thesis at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hamburg-based communication designer. He created the experimental typeface Kubik (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based designer of the counterless modular headline font Viertel (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Drew Damned Dingbats EF in 1993. Designer at Germany's Apply Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator of Red Dot (2007, a dot matrix font: free if you ask). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Added in 2009: Russisch Brot, Block Out (3d face, +Filled1, + Filled2), Bold Stencil Sans, Script Pixelig, Dorky Corners Sans, Haus der Kunst (inspired by the building in München by that name), Fraktur Test, Fette Sans (nice), Emilia, Runde Pixelig (pixel script). Creations in 2010: Fraktur Test, The Plot (octagonal, architectural), 80s Metal Band, Fieldwork Font (pixel), Black Metal, I slabbed the Seriff, Play (curly face). Creations in 2011: Obvious Stencil (Bauhaus, or piano key), Supercali (a psychedelic font inspired by the cover for A.R. Kane's "I"), Manuale (with straight slabs; +Manuale Giocoso, 2012), Graphite (fat and rounded), Graphite 2, Hinterland Italic (quaint Victorian face). From 2012: Linea Fraktur (extended in 2013 to Linea Runde), Black Organic (spiky blackletter), Green Organic (a spurred blackletter), Standard Sans, Modular Blackout Bold Condensed, Viva Las Vegas, Helios, Faux Pas Serif (Egyptian typeface), Nova Thin Extended (this hairline sans is a tour de force---it is the first successful hairline sans face ever made by anyone using FontStruct), Bencraft. Fonts from 2013: A La Carte, Hampton Italic, Baby Elephant (fat grotesque). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based designer (b. 1978, Ostfildern-Ruit) who studied at FH Wiesbaden. Creator of the unbelievable experimental font Wirefox (Die Gestalten, 2006), consisting of diagonal lines only. See it to believe it! He also designed Ambiva, which creates the illusion of type by showing the characters' shade only. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexis Luengas
| German type designer in Karlsruhe. He created Rhetorica (2011): Its design is motivated by the elegant roman letters of the Rennaissance, capturing the vitality seen in the hand of masters like Granjon, Garamond, Jenson and Van den Keere, but also neohumanist typographers like Zapf. In 2012, Luengas published the Meleo family. This organic semiserif family is characterized by a large x-height, and a contrast between the round nature of the regular style and the angular calligraphic features of the italic styles. In 2013, he started work on Didotesque. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Alexis Luengas Zimmer
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German designer (b. 1977) who lives in Karlsruhe. Dafont link. Creator of the shaded serif face 404error (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer, b. 1890, Groitzsch, d. 1946, Mühlberg/Elbe. He studied at the Staatlichen Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig, where he taught typography from 1934 onwards. Alfons Schneider created the blackletter face Franken Deutsch (1934-1939, Ludwig Wagner), and the didone family Pergamon Antiqua (1937, Ludwig Wagner; +Mager, +Schmalhalbfett, +halbfett, +fett, +schmalfett), Pergamon Kursiv (1938). L. Wagner mentions the typefaces Pergamon Werkschrift, Pergamon Kursiv halbfett, Pergamon Kursiv kräftig and Pergamon schmalhalbfett. Schneider published all his typefaces at L. Wagner. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer (b. 1908, Nürnberg, d. 1996, Stuttgart) who designed fonts at Klingspor such as Duo licht/Duo dunkel (1954). Figura (1954, Stempel) is a condensed didone face. Scan of the cover of Hoffmann's Schriftatlas (1952), designed by him. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Type designer in Freiburg (1906-1969) who was a pupil of Rudolf Koch. Designer of Domino (Ludwig&Mayer, 1954). A digital revival was created by Nick Curtis in 2007, called Idle Fancy NF. Sample of blackletter calligraphy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Germany's Apply Design of RIO (1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer and artist, b. B¨hmen or Karlsbad, 1932, d. 2006. He was professor since 1973, and retired from Fachhochschule Würzburg in 1996. He still lives in Würzburg. Tilp runs Tilp Art, his computer art web site. Bio. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Typefaces:
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German type designer. With Andy Jörder and Jörg Herz, he created the ultra-fat constructivist family Coma (2010, Volcano). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Brno-born architect (1872) who worked in München and Vienna and died in 1969. Some of his lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alte Schriften
| German page advertising a CD with nice old writing samples (in tiff, not ttf!!!). Mostly decorated initials and Fraktur. R.G. Arens' Sütterlin font can be downloaded from this site, which is run by Susanne Ulmke in Arnsberg, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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The TimesGerman family in truetype (Times with special symbols for a German dictionary). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alt-Katholiken in Deutschland
| A truetype font called Alt-Katholiken, with religious logos, made by Achim Stump. Free, but you need to ask by email. In German. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Anatole Type Foundry
| Elena Albertoni (Anatole Type Foundry) is an Italian type designer (b. 1979, Bergamo) who studied at ESAD Amiens and the Ecole Estienne in Paris, before taking a position as type designer at FontFabrik in Berlin. She cofounded Anatole Type Foundry with Pascal Duez. At the Rencontres de Lure 2005, she spoke about OpenType and Latin characters. Her script typeface Dolce (2005) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. She created Dyna (connected feminine script). Review of Dolce & Dyna. Other faces include Kigara, Scritta (connected calligraphic script), Dolce (2005, connected script), Helene (squarish face), Valora, Schneider, Gregoria (a Gregorian chant font that won an award at TDC2 2007), Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010, eight-style sans family of great utility, codesigned with Fred Bordfeld; Cyrillic included). Acuta (2010) is an all-purpose type family. Scritta Nuova (2011) is a rhythmic upright connected script, which evokes retro calligraphic styles taught in Italian schools around the 1950s. In 2012, she published the plump and curvy script face Molle at Google Web Fonts. Nouvelle Vague (2011) is a connected display script along the lines of Mistral. Spinnaker (2011) is a sans design based on French and UK lettering found on posters for travel by ship. Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
German designer who created the funky calligraphic serif typeface family Varius (2004, Linotype). Included are ornamental faces with music notation and standard ornaments. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance graphic designer and illustrator in Munich, who designed Angle Type (2010, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andre Waitz, aka Der Schurke, is the German designer of the handprinted grungy outline font Suppenkasper (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer, b. 1971. Dafont link. Creator of the free fonts B Kings (2009, funny figurines), Paul Pulpo (2011), Junglefood (2011), FC Podolski (2010, logos). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer and illustrator in Berlin, who created the shadowed display face Pomodorino in 2013 for a restaurant identity. One Have To Coma Again (2013) is an angular display sans typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German graphic designer who designed the runic face Creatividad Agotada (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based graphic designer and illustrator who graduated in 2011 from the School of Art and Design in Berlin Weissensee. Creator of these typefaces at Burodestruct in 2010: BD Circo (2010), BD Plankton (2010). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Tinnes
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Designer at Elsner&Flake of the dot matrix font EF Kirmes. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer, b. 1977, aka Leo, who studied graphic design in Dessau in 2005. After an apprenticeship with Lucas de Groot and Fred Smeijers, he created Neue Sans (2005), a six-weight font that can be freely downloaded from OurType, Fred Smeijers' foundry. Neue Sans Pro (2007) is not free, however. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
André Nossek
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André Schulz-Werner
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Andreas Brietzke
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Graphic designer in Berlin. His typefaces include Asgard Grotesk (2012), Evil Neue (2012, sans), Jjang (2012), Ladro (2012), Schicke (2012, geometric sans), Tano (2012), Sherman Mono (2012), Tsukunft (2012, experimental), Arsene (2012), Decodorant (2012), Kirky (2012), Nordfrost (2012), Sedadda (2012), Sloth (2012, an avant garde sans), Svangard (2012), Yueah Mono (2012), and Kamek (2012, a great feather pen rendering of a Venetian renaissance typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of several CE versions of FontFont fonts, such as the CE versions of Ole Schaefer's Fago: FF Fago Office Sans CE, Fago Office Serif CE (2000). He also helped with the finalization of some fonts at Primetype, e.g., the PTL Maurea family. He joined Carrois Type Design in Berlin, where he is involved in many type projects. One example is the angular grotesk typeface done by Carrois Type Design in 2008 for the Russian Railways. This work was carried out with Dmitri Lavrow, and invloved Andreas Eigendorf and Ralph du Carrois. Typedia link. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Frohloff and Bertram published the friendly typeface FF Videtur: The concept for FF Videtur is based on bitmap fonts Axel Bertram created for the state television broadcaster in East Germany (GDR Television) during the 1980s. Thorough research and testing led to the creation of an open, functional serif typeface with alternating contrast. Freed from yesteryear's technical restrictions, the new FF Videtur was entirely redrawn while keeping the best characteristics of the earlier forms. Despite its workmanlike appearance at first glance, its warm character is undeniable. The reasons for this are its modest stroke contrast; the open, clearly differentiated letterforms; the relatively short and rounded wedge-shaped serifs; and the consistent rhythm it sets in lines of text. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Göbel
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Andreas Hild
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Andreas Höfeld
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Type designer from Schorndorf, Germany, b. 1968. of Trombo (FontShop). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer of Linotype Fluxus (1997, shaky handprinting) and Linotype Mailbox (1997, at sign for all characters). Kevin Pease claims that Linotype Mailbox is the worst font ever created, both in concept and execution. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Germany's Apply Design of fonts such as BigDots, 1993. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance book and type designer from Bielefeld, Germany. Second prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library with his flared sans face Linotype Projekt (1999). He alsio designed Damned Dingbats (Apply Design, 1993). Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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German punchcutter and typefounder in Nuremberg, where he published a type specimen of Fraktur in 1710, a borders speciman in 1715, and another Fraktur in 1714. Norstedt (Stockholm) has a Fraktur by him.German punchcutter and typefounder in Nuremberg, where he published a type specimen of Fraktur in 1710, a borders speciman in 1715, and another Fraktur in 1714. Norstedt (Stockholm) has a Fraktur by him. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Lehmann
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Andreas Münch
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Berlin-based illustrator and graphic designer, who created the squarish semi-stencil typeface Jongehonden in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Seidel
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German designer. Dafont link. Creator of the free octagonal / mechanical typeface family Amboss (2012), and of the handprinted Anilin (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Andreas Stötzner
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Andreas Wehner
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AW Siam English Not Thai is a free Latin font with a Siamese look, designed by Andreas Wegandt. Fontspace link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Branding director in Braunschweig, Germany. His typographic work in Type Sex with Durex (2010) is remarkable. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plantation, FL-based designer of GoodCityModernPlain (1991, a blackletter font based on J. Gutenburg's 42-line bible), and LombardocMedium (1991). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer. With Alois Ganslmeier and Jörg Herz, he created the ultra-fat constructivist family Coma (Coma, Volcano). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German-Swiss typographer. With Julien Saurin, she published the classic avant-gardist hand-drawn typeface Paris (2012, La Goupil). It comes with art nouveau ornaments called Paris Serif Ornaments. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angela Neubauer
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Angelo Stitz
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German Linotype Library designer (b. Jülich, 1969) of the pi fonts Pinxit astro, Pinxit Office and Pinxit Private at Linotype. FontShop link. MyFonts.com blurb. Ania lives in Berlin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator with Henry Hajdu of Pixtur (2005), a pixel version of Fette Haenel Fraktur. This font can be found on the CD that comes with Fraktur Mon Amour (Hermann Schmidt Verlag, 2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anke Arnold
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Anke Art
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English page. For 10DM (5 USD), Anke will make your handwriting into a font! Alternate URL. Dafont link. Another link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Young designer at fontgrube who made Linax. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German creator of Anna's Handschrift (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer (b. 1990) who created the handwriting face AnnasSchrift (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anna Mandoki
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Designer (b. 1924) at D. Stempel of Montan (1954), a bold condensed titling font. She wrorked at stempel in the 1950s before becoming a teacher. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scribe, calligrapher and teacher (1871, Mönchengladbach-1951, Prien). From 1896-1903, she studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and was a student of Edward Johnston in 1900. She taught at Weimar from 1908-1914 and collaborated with the Bremer Presse from 1918 on. She created the initials for "Dante" (Berlin: Rowolth 1930) and for "Augustinus" (München: Bremer Presse 1924). Jakob Erbar was one of her students. The Bremer Presse published Anna Simons Titel und Initialen für die Bremer Presse in 1926. The book blurb: A portfolio of titles and initials designed by Anna Simons for the Bremer Presse. Along with Graily Hewitt, Eric Gill, and Percy Smith, Simons was one of Edward Johnston's star pupils at the Royal College of Art in London, and she has inscribed this copy to him on the title-page in black ink. It was after studying with Johnston, whose Writing&Illuminating,&Lettering she translated into German, that Simons in 1918 went home to Germany to work at the Bremer Presse. During her time at the Presse, she would design many titles and initial sets for them, and in 1926 this portfolio was issued to showcase her work. Each sheet in the portfolio is headed by one of Simons' Bremer Presse title designs, including her titles for the Divine Comedy, Fichte's Reden an Die Seutsche Nation, Chansons d'Amour, Albii Tabulli Elegiae, and others. The titles are followed by the initials she cut for the work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the nice scratchy grungy all caps face Merlin LL (1994, Linotype). In 2003, she published Goodies LT Std A and B in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection. Bio at Linotype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anne Schröder
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German designer of the coffee bean themed font Cafe Time (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Germany's Apply Design of fonts such as Uhura (1993), Grind (1994), Bastard (1995). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial fonts (partial demos available) by Professor Ansgar Krause: Funktionsanalyse, Generalbass, SmartTools, GitarrenTools, Lyrics. Mac and Windows. Names of the demo fonts: FinalAnalyseDemo, FinalGeneralbassDemo, FinalGitarreDemo, FinalGriffbrettHorizDemo, FinalGriffbrettVertDemo, FinalLyricsRegularDemo, FinalSmartToolsDEMO. The demos are useless (the fonts of course will be fine!). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer (b. 1857, Berlin, d. 1922, Berlin) who made Flinsch-Fraktur (1911, Flinsch, Bauersche Giesserei). Flinsch Fraktur is also called Frankfurter Fraktur. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hannover, Germany-based outfit that published the Fraktur font Propaganda (1999). Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Antje Driemeyer
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Nürnberg-based printer who created many interesting typefaces in the late 15th century, as narrated by Christoph Reske in Eine neue Entdeckung zur Druckgeschichte der Schedelschen Weltchronik (note: Schedelschen Weltchronik (1492) is a book by Hartmann Schedel). These include a gorgeous Rotunda and Schwabacher (1492), a Druckbastarda, and other original Fraktur faces, called No. 9 and No. 11 by Reske. Koberger was first and foremost a printer, who made the first illustrated bible in 1475, and printed, as hinted to above, Schedelschen Weltchronik (1492). He died in 1515. MyFonts page. Modern digital types based on Koberger abound:
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Anton Koovit
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Anton Koovit was born in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1981, and studied graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, ESAG Paris and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006, he obtained a masters in type design at KABK in Den Haag. Anton set up his own company Khork OÜ in 2006. In 2007 he moved to Berlin, Germany. He is "extraordinary assistant professor" of typography/type design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2012, he and Yassin Baggar set up Fatype, a type foundry in Berlin and Neuchatel, Switzerland. His most well known typeface design is Adam BP (2007, B&P Foundry), a 4-weight sans family. He also designed Aleksei (2010, unreleased serif face), GQ Slab, GQ Baton (b Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar), U8 (2010: a grotesk family based on lettering in the Berlin underground), Arvo (2010: a free slab serif family at Google Font Directory, codesigned with Yassin Baggar). Experimental faces by him include Kork Sausage, Boudo (collage alphabet), Planton, Velo (geometric). Allan (2010) and Arvo are free at the Google Directory. Fontsquirrel link. Behance link for Fatype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hamburg-based designer of Cleptotronik (2012), a 3d visual effects caps alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the smooth organic display face Cirrus (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of screen fonts for 5 to 8 point at screentype.de (or: Cybedesign): Tolski (2000) and Totally Regular (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Defunct type magazine published by the German foundry, Apply Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Apply Design Group
| German foundry (est. 1989) based in Hannover and run by Thomas Sokolowski, selling mainly display fonts. Thomas made standard ransom note fonts such as Mystery EF Mixed (1990). Also made about ten rather clean old typewriter fonts such as Old Typewriter EF Regular, 1990. Made also the ultra-thin Spirit EF fonts. Imprimeur Classique (1989) is like a computer modern face. Scripture (1990, handwriting). Started Apply Design Group in Hanover, Germany, in 1989. Apply Design Typeface Library. Overview. Fonts and designers: DNA (by Steven Boss), CasaSeraSera (by Yanek Iontef), Nurse Ratchet (by Don Synstelien), Thordis, Amoebia (by Jens Gehlhaar), Aspera (by Harald Oehlerking), Bastard (1995, Ansgar Knipschild), BigDots (1993, Andreas Klimek-Falke), Birds (Manfred Klein), Blindfish (1992, Jens Gehlhaar), BodoniRough (1998, Thomas Sokolowski), FuturRough, GaramondRough (1997, Christian Terbeck), Rohrfeder-Rough (1997, Christian Terbeck), Bumpers, Casc Seta, Coltrane, Concept, Cornwall, DamnedDingbats, DeconStruct, Electrobazar, Elside, EthnoFont, Fuzzy (1998, Jonas Gonell), Gagamond (1993, Jens Gehlhaar), Grind (1994, Ansgar Knipschild), Hansel (Catinka Keul, children's handwriting), Homeboyz (1994, Oliver Hoffmann), ImprimeurClassique (a didone font, 1993, Thomas Sokolowski), Indian Summer, Las Bonitas (1992, Thomas Sokolowski), MarieLuise (1994, Dietmar Schmidt), MedLed, Merz (1993, Thomas Sokolowski: not clear idf this is supposed to be a dada typeface), Monterrey (1993, Thomas Sokolowski), MoreKaputt, Mex (1992, Thomas Sokolowski), Mystery (1992, Thomas Sokolowski), Old Typewriter (1992, Thomas Sokolowski), Tierfreund, Thing (1993, Mathias Maassen-Pohlen), Paccer, Rio (1994, Alfred Smeets), Scripture, Spirit, Steelplate, Truck, Uhura (1993, Ansgar Knipschild), Xtronic (1995, Thomas Sokolowski), Tokay, ScreamHot, scanneZ, Fanatique, Euredice, and WhyNot. Great web presentation, and complete character sets. In grunge, Concept is as good as they come, for example. The company also sells a CD with erotic icons. CD ROM called "typografica" with high quality display fonts in PostScript. List of fonts. Fonts sold by Faces. Other type designers: Manfred Klein, Alexander Koch, Carlo Krüger, Antje Wolf. FontHaus link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German stencil face and typographic service outfit located in Hamburg. MyFonts site. Besides Caslon Fina Stencil and Serpentine Stencil (Dick Jensen), the following faces or families were made in 1999 by Sigrid Claessens and Günther Flake: Advera Stencil, Stencil Antiqua, Arston Stencil, Chico Stencil, Ferro Stencil, La Pina Stencil, Lasertac Stencil, Reedon Stencil, Rounded Stencil, Walton Stencil, Western Stencil, Glaser Stencil (after a face by Milton Glaser), Bank Stencil (1930s face of Morris Fuller Benton), Geometric Stencil (originally by Paul Renner), Tea Chest Stencil (after a face by Robert Harling, 1939). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
ArabTex
| If you use LaTeX and want the top of the line in Arabic fonts (and free too!), get the metafont that comes with ArabTex: From the University of Stuttgart, Professor Klaus Lagally's ArabTeX is a LaTeX extension for high-quality Arabic writing. It is free. Lagally is also responsible for the xnsh package for ArabTeX. CTAN archive. He published ArabTEX - Typesetting Arabic with Vowels and Ligatures, EuroTEX'92 (Prague), 1992. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Based in Hannover, Germany, Arif Demir designed a cross between Futura and DIN called Edelman (2013), which was designed in cooperation with Florian Schick and Professor Walter Hellmann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of QuasariaLL Regular (1994), a font with really illegible extra-condensed characters. FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Toward a new typeface A type design project (Comedia, 2005, vol. 2). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arne Götje
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Born in Auerbach, Germany, 1882. Died in Braunschweig in 1971. Worked mostly in Leipzig and Braunschweig. Drescher is most famous for his huge Super Grotesk family (Schriftguss, 1930, a geometric sans serif). At the foundry of Ludwig Wagner, he published Arabella (1936, a script face; for a revival, see Arabella Pro (2006, Ralph Unger, Profonts), Arabella Favorit (1936 or 1939), Fundamental Grotesk (1938-1939, four weights), Manutius Antiqua (1935), Manutius Kursiv (1935). He designed Antiqua 505 (aka Manutius) in 1955, a strong bold face. The latter was published by J. Wagner. Other faces include Drescher Initials (Schriftguss, 1927, an open lineale titling face), Duplex (Typoart, 1930, a delicate double-stroke titling type), Energos (Schriftguss, 1932, almost a comic book type of script font) and Helion (Schriftguss, 1935, and Fonderie Française, 1935, a 3-d shaded outline font). His Super Grotesk family was revived at FontShop in 1999 by Svend Smital, and at Bitstream in 2001 by Nicolai Gogoll as Drescher Grotesk BT. Energos led to Ralph Unger's Energia Pro (2008). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jugendstil artist. The Jugendstil movement originated in the late 19th century in Bavaria around München and had artists like Boecklin. The driving force of the Jugendstil movement was the magazine Münchner Jugend which showcased the designs of German art nouveau artists. Scriptorium has a number of fonts based on the Jugendstil movement: Munich is derived from the hand-lettered title of the magazine, Jugend and Campobello are decorative initials designed for the magazine, and Phaeton is based on lettering from the period. Otto Weisert, who ran the Schriftgiesserei Otto Weisert in Stuttgart, designed the Jugendstil-style font Arnold Boecklin in 1904 (available at URW, Linotype, Adobe, Mecanorma, and others, and copied and modified tens of times)---it is that design that most typographers probably associate most with Arnold Boecklin. View some digital implementations of Arnold Boecklin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author in 1969 of an article in Die deutsche Schrift of Schulschrift in Deutschland (about handwriting education in schools in Germany). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German printer (b. Köln, d. 1476), who left Mainz with Conrad Sweynheym to establish Italy's first printing press, in the monastery of St. Scholastica at Subiaco. There, they published three books, Cicero's De Oratore, the Opera of Lactantius, and St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei. In 1467, they set up a press in the De Massimi palace in Rome, from where they published 50 more books. Revivals of their faces, blends between humanist and blackletter, include the Subiaco font done by Ashendene Press in 1902, and the scanfont 1467 Pannartz Latin by GLC. Nicholas Fabian on Pannartz. Catholic Encyclopedia. Literature: Burger: The Printers and Publishers of the XV Century (London, 1902); Fumagalli: Dictionnaire géogrique d'Italie pour servir à l'histoire de l'imprimerie dans ce pays (Florence, 1905); Löffler: Sweinheim und Pannartz in Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde, IX (Bielefeld, 1905), and Die ersten deutschen Drucker in Italien in Historisch-politische Blätter, CXLIII (Munich, 1909). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German printer, based in Köln, active from 1470 until 1483. Aka Arnold Therhoernen, Arnold ter Humen and Arnold Horn. Aka Arnold Therhoernen, Arnold ter Humen and Arnold Horn. Born in Hoorn (Zuidersee), he died in Köln in 1483 or 1484. In 2013, Shane Brandes created a typeface, Therhoernen, named after him. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Despite claims by the European politicians to the contrary, the Euro symbol was first designed by a German designer, Luxembourg-based euro-fanatic, Arthur Eisenmenger (b. 1915). He also designed the European Union flag. Eisenmenger claimed that it was in fact he who created the symbol a quarter of a century before its unveiling in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer, who created the extra bold blackletter headline face Deutsche Reichs-Schrift (1915, Wilhelm Woellmer). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ritzel (b. Offenbach, 1910, d. 2002) headed the letter drawing office at Stempel from World War II until his retirement in the late 1960s. He was responsible for the redrawing of Haas Neue Grotesk into Helvetica. German designer of Rotation (1971, Linotype), now available at Adobe and Linotype, and named after the rotation newsprint machine for which is was particularly suited. Linotype states: The font displays the influence of Old Face design and gives newsprint a feeling of lightness and elegance. Hunt Roman was cut in steel by Arthur Ritzel between 1961 and 1963, and cast by the Stempel foundry in Frankfurt in four sizes only, 12, 14, 18 and 24 points. It was designed as a private typeface for Mrs. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, The Hunt Botanical Library in Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania. Used with special permission by Jack Stauffacher, The Greenwood Press, San Francisco, and Sebastian and Will Carter, The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge/England. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German punchcutter. Designer at Ludwig&Mayer of the blackletter face Werbekraft (1926) and of the script face Mammut (or Werbeschrift Mammut) (1927; see also L. Wagner in 1928 and 1932). At Schelter & Giesecke, he published Ambra (1924). At Lettergieterij Amsterdam, he created Schaduw Capitals (1919). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1882 in Leipzig, died in 1945 in Vienna. Creator of Hammerschrift (or Hammer Unziale), ca. 1921, a modern pseudo-Gaelic uncial typeface named after Victor Hammer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artill Typs
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Commercial faces include Luco Sans (2009), Sketch Block (2009) and the octagonal family Wombat (2009). Yaa (2010) is a hand-sketched headline font. Dock 11 (2011) is a (free) heavy art deco headline face. Sketch Gothic (2011) is a sketched Franklin Gothic. Typefaces from 2012: Zwodrei, Kurt (a hand-printed typeface), Artill Weather Icons (free). Behance link. Blog. Old URL. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Brass Fonts in Cologne of the pictogram font BF Temptice (with Guido Schneider, 1998-1999). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Hamburg-based lithographer (b. 1967). FF Call is her first font: it is a family of pixel fonts made in 2000. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
astype.de
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View Andreas Seidel's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Atelier Carvalho Bernau
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Kai Bernau (b. 1978) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwabisch Gmünd in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands, where he graduated from the Design & Typography course of the KABK in The Hague in 2005 with his successful Neutral Typeface project. He continued in the KABK's Type and Media Master course where he graduated in 2006. Kai teaches type design in the Master in Art Direction program at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, which is based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Typefaces:
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Atelier im Dachgeschoss
| At Jakob Software, Jürgen Jakob offers these free fonts on behalf of its designer (I guess), Klaus Czytko from Atelier im Dachgeschoss in Göttingen, Germany: InternBlindenschriftBraille, InternBuchstabieralphabet, InternFlaggenalphabet (flags), InternMorsealphabet (morse), InternWinkeralphabet, InternZeichensprache (sign language). These are all made in 2001 and have copyright to Atelier im Dachgeschoss/Czytko in Göttingen, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Atlas Font Foundry
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Creators of Novel Mono (2012, Christoph Dünst), Novel Sans (2012), Novel Sans Rounded (2012), and Novel Sans Condensed (2012), Heimat Sans (2010), Heimat (2010), Heimat Mono (2013), Heimat Stencil (2013), Novel Sans Office Pro (2013). The Heimat series is characterized by an inverted tail of the y. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Font technology specialist at Linotype, Germany. He was born in Manisa (Turkey) in 1974 and grew up in Marburg (Germany) before moving to Frankfurt in 1994. He studied political science and computer science at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität and later at the Fernuniversität Hagen. He joined Linotype as an intern in 2000 before becoming the full time Font Technology Specialist in 2002. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about Automation in font production. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of web fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Held in Heidelberg, Germany, on February 20, 2003 in the afternoon, at Zum Güldenen Schaf, Haupstraße 115, Heidelberg. Open to everyone. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Augenbluten
| Free fonts at the German outfit Augenbluten (Mac only): Poprock, Destroy Dingbats, Menace, Destroy Gotisch (Fraktur), Excellence (multiline font), Augmented, Maschinen (octagonal), Nano, Mikrokomputer (pixel face). All these fonts are by a group of four people among which we find Axel Pfaender. The group calls itself "interfaces - symposium ueber schrift und sprache". PC versions at Augmented.de. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographer born in Frankfurt am Main (1844), who died in New York in 1896. He worked for some time at A.D. Farmer&Son in New York, as well as at Conner Typefoundry, and at Bruce Typefoundry after his emigration to the USA in 1868. In Germany, he was a punchcutter at Flinsch and from 1864-1868 at Haas in Basel. McGrew says: Merrymount was designed by Bertram G. Goodhue for Daniel B. Updike's Merrymount Press in Boston, and was cut only in 18-point. This was used in an impressive Altar Book, which established the reputation of Updike and his Press. Steve Watts says the face was cut by Mr. [August] Woerner of A. D. Farmer&Son Type Foundry in New York. The original punches and matrices are preserved by the Providence (Rhode Island) Public Library as part of its extensive Updike Collection, where a note with the mats says, "Cut by A. Woener (sic), June 21st, 1895." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator (b. 1880, Gleichenberg) of Haiduk Antiqua (1908, Bauersche Giesserei) and Haiduk Antiqua Halbfette (1910, Bauersche Giesserei). He also made Haiduk Kursiv (1910, Bauersche Giesserei). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the display faces Piehler Schrift and Piehler Kursiv (1923) at Schriftguss AG vormalif Brüder Butter. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German punchcutter, b. 1893, Frankfurt, d. 1980, Frankfurt. At D. Stempel AG, he cut Zapf's flower alphabet. The flower initial caps appear in a book "Das Blumen-ABC", couthored by Hermann Zapf and August Rosenberger, and is based on Zapf's brush drawings from 1943-1946. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German type and graphic designer. He used Morse code in the creation of the experimental typeface New Samuel (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Authentic
| German foundry, est. 2009 by Julius Wiescher (b. 1991), who is the youngest son of famous type designer Gert Wiescher. His font Thin Pen (2009) is based on an ancestor of the German DIN-Schrift. The font was traced with a plastic template on transparent paper, scanned and worked over carefully to keep the handmade, authentic touch. Other fonts by him: DonJulio and Donna Julia (2008, Autographis, calligraphic script fonts made with Gert), Flatpen (2008, Autographis, with Gert), Norm Pen (2011, based on an ancestor of DIN Schrift), Bold Pen (2011, bold version of Norm Pen), Groucho (2011, a high-contrast flowing script), Authentic (2011, a connected copperplate script), Oldhand (2011, shaky handwriting), Holz Caps (2011, an irregular wood type simulation face), Poing (2011, a flowing calligraphic script), Cri Cri (2011, slab serif comic book face). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Autographis
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The students of arts and design at HfG Karlsruhe present their work in 2008: Amoto (Nadja Schoch), Barbarossa (Peter Stahmer: grunge), Cirrus (Antonia Huber: liquid style), Fourty Five Degrees (Emanuel K: octagonal), Hopfen (Martin Borst: display sans), Letrix (Miriam Bauer: modular octagonal), Lokomo (Claudia Kappenberger: experimental), Mayfield Display, Monta (Stefanie Miller), Moto Moto (Piero Glina: octagonal), Nancy (Masa Busic: art deco), Oceanic (Simone Gier: rounded techno), Platine (Lise Naujack: multiline, inspired by chip wiring), Pluk (Simon Roth: poster stencil), Quitt (Marko Greve: experimental multiline), Sophonho (Daniel Schludi: display sans), Vahen (Nicolaz Groll: display sans). Avoid Red Arrows is run by Marko Grewe, Stefanie Miller, Simon Roth, and Peter Stahmer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of delicately quaint Lucinde family in 16 styles (2011, Linotype), in collaboration with calligrapher and type designer Andreas Frohloff. Lucinde was later renamed Rabenau. Images: i, ii, iii. Linotype writes: In March 1999, Axel Bertram carried out the first test prints of a typeface which he had originally developed for his own use. He had been searching for an appropriate script to evoke both a significant period in the history of printing and the literary historical milieu of Berlin around 1900. His attention was drawn to Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde which appeared to great acclaim in 1799 and whose ideas found great sympathy in Axel Bertram. (The novel deals with the major re-ordering of the roles between men and women, in particular arising from the lifestyle of a young Romantic. Sensibility and intellectual attraction, earthly and heavenly love were no longer to be seen as irreconcilable opposites and certainly not to be seen as being divinely pre-ordained for one sex only. This was a small historical step on the path towards equality of rights for the sexes. The novel remained an incomplete fragment and the ideas contained did not catch on in the author's lifetime. These new demands had, however, found a voice and continued to resonate.) In 1999 the new typeface was therefore dedicated to the ideals of this young Romantic with all its sublime insolence. In 2012, he published FF Videtur, together with Andreas Frohloff: The concept for FF Videtur is based on bitmap fonts Axel Bertram created for the state television broadcaster in East Germany (GDR Television) during the 1980s. Thorough research and testing led to the creation of an open, functional serif typeface with alternating contrast. Freed from yesteryear's technical restrictions, the new FF Videtur was entirely redrawn while keeping the best characteristics of the earlier forms. Despite its workmanlike appearance at first glance, its warm character is undeniable. The reasons for this are its modest stroke contrast; the open, clearly differentiated letterforms; the relatively short and rounded wedge-shaped serifs; and the consistent rhythm it sets in lines of text. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Young designer at fontgrube who made Polymer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Axel Pfaender
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B. Stonefield (Hamburg, Germany) created Stonefield Script (2011, a marker script), and Stonefield (2011, a rounded art deco style stencil family). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German web developer. FontStructor who made Eldsie (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
B2302
| Berlin-based designer Simon Becker (aka B2302) created Legere (2012, HypeForType) together with Jose Cunyat. It has Light, Regular and Deco styles. In 2013, with Federico Neeva Orrù, he created a versatile octagonal multiline display family, Vasarely, named after optical artist Victor Vasarely. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Author of the calligraphic master scribe book entitled Schreibmeisterbuch für Herzog Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1600s). See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bank
| BANK is a French/German design agency based in Berlin. It markets its fonts through T-26, starting in 2009. In 2009, Sebastian Bissinger and Matthieu David made the display faces Sintra and Yummy. Sintra is a 3d face that simulates letters made from folded material---Sebastian Bissinger was inspired by the sign of a shoe shop in Sintra, Portugal. Yummy was inspired by cookie cutters. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Typoart of Fetta Antiqua and Schmallfette Antiqua, two didone faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barske.com
| German foundry that had some free offerings by Berlin-based graphic designer, typographer and illustrator, Helge Barske. In 2001, he made Dirty Bitch, Kombuese, Badfag, Gogogogo, Kloezzler, Klozzbats, Krossklozz, Mahoney, Pixelplastique, Plastiquekingdom, Sinner (constructivist), Snowbats, Stanzefett, Suplex. Several dot matrix and pixel fonts. The fonts typically had no punctuation though. At some point, the free font pages disappeared. KingConvex (2009, hairline) was shown at Behance. Schneusel Sans (2010) is a soft octagonal face. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bart Stax
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German designer at Team 505. During his studies, he created the bike-themed font Felge (2012, with David Benski). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Frankfurt-based foundry started in 1837 by Johann Christian Bauer. At the end of the 19th century, the new owner was Georg Hartmann. On its staff, it had designers such as Konrad F. Bauer [Alpha (1954), Beta (1954), Folio (1956-63), Imprimatur (1952-55), Volta (1956), Verdi (1957), Impressum (1963), all made with Walter Baum], Lucian Bernhard [Bernhard Condensed, 1912], Hugo Steiner-Prag [Batarde, 1916], Julius Diez [vignetten, 1912], Henri Wieynck [Trianon, 1906; Cursive Renaissance, 1912; Wieynck-Kursiv, 1912], Georg Hartmann, Paul Renner [Futura, 1937], Emil Rudolf Weiß [Weiß Fraktur, 1924], Berthold Wolpe [Handwerkerzeichen, 1936; Hyperion, 1950; Rundgotisch, 1938] and F.H. Ernst Scheidler [Legend, 1937]. In its glory period, Bauer's leader was Heinrich Jost (1889-1949), from 1922 until 1948, who with punchcutter Louis Hoell made a beautiful version of Bodoni, now known as Bauer Bodoni. A New York office was set up in 1927, but after the 1960s, the foundry declined and finally closed its doors in 1972. Its typefaces were passed on to its Barcelona branch, Fundición Tipográfica Neufville. See also here. Digitized faces include Futura ND (Paul Renner, redigitized by Marie-Therésè Koreman at Neufville in 1999), Edison Swirl SG (late 1800s, digitized by Spiece Graphics), Gable Antique Condensed SG (late 1800s, digitized by Spiece Graphics), Weiß (Bitstream, based on a family made in 1924-1931 by Emil Rudolf Weiss), Bauer Bodoni (1926, FT Bauer, made by Heinrich Jost and Louis Hoell), Bauer Bodoni (Adobe version), Candida (1936, now digitized at FT Bauer), Charme (1957, now available from FT Bauer), Impressum, Imprimatur, Venus (1907-1927, now at FT Bauer), Venus and Hermes (both available at Linotype; Venus is also at URW), Volta (1955), and Phyllis (1911). Other faces: Bernhard Cursive (1962), Constantia, Hellenic Wide (1962), Lucian (1962), Cantate (1962), Gillies Gothic (1962), Horizon (1962), Folio (1962), Bauer Beton (1962), Bauer Topic (1962), Bauer Classic (1962), Elizabeth (1962), Cartoon (1962), Trafton Script, Astoria, Lilith, Legend (1937), Fortune, Folio Kursiv, Folio Grotesk (1960), Cantate (1958), Papageno (1958), Verdi (1957), Amalthea (1957), Magic (1955), Steile Futura Kursiv (1955), Columna (1955), Maxim (1955), Tivolischmuck (1950), Symphonie (1938, by Imre Reiner, in 1945 called Stradivarius), Weiß Antiqua (1950), Legende (1950), Quick (1950), Ballé Initials (1940), Beton (1940), Corvinus (1934), Bernhard Roman (1930), Hyperion (1956), Volta Kursiv (1955), Rundgotisch (1938), Hoyer Fraktur (1935), Gotika (1934), Jubilaeums-Initialen, Künstler Grotesk, Lichte Futura (1931), Weiß Fraktur (1924), Reklameschrift Herkules, Herkules-Gotisch (1898), Enge Gotisch (ca. 1880: digital version by Gerhard Helzel), Ehmcke Antiqua (1921), Batarde (1916), Wieynck-Kursiv (1912), Zweifarbige Grotesk Kursiv, Cursive Renaissance (1912), Manuskript Gotisch (1899; after Wolfgang Hopyl, 1514), Graziosa (1914 or earlier, script face), Kleukens Antiqua (1910), Barlösius Schrift (1906-1907, H. Barlösius), Trianon (1906), Hohenzollern (1902, + Initialen), Telefunken (1959), Sinfonia (script), Amerikanische Alt-Gotisch (1903, influenced by Henry William Bradley's and Joseph Warren Phinney's 1895 art nouveau face, Bradley). In house samples: AntiquaBrotschriften-IX-Garnitur, Einfache Kanzlei (ca. 1830), Enge halbfette Zeitungsfraktur, Fette Gotisch, Moderne halbfette Fraktur, Gotisch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type meeting in Weimar, Germany, held from 17-20 September 2009. Speakers included Wolfgang Beinert, Axel Bertram, Uwe Brückner, Lucas de Groot, Ralf de Jong, Gerd Fleischmann, Ralf Hermann, Eike König, Alessio Leonardi, Andreas Maxbauer, Hans Eduard Meier, Jörg Petri, Albert-Jan Pool, Mariko Takagi, Dirk Uhlenbrock, Vilim Vasata, and Olaf Weber. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius. It was based in Weimar (1919 to 1925), and then in Dessau (1925 to 1932), and finally in Berlin (1932 to 1933), before it was closed by the Nazi regime. The Bauhaus movement, which cut almost everything to its bare minimum and naked essentials, influenced art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. Its typographical masters included Josef Albers (who made Kombinationsschrift), Herbert Bayer (famous for his Universal), Joost Schmidt and Kurt Schwitters. Bauhaus-style typefaces emerged everywhere---Futura (Paul Renner), Super Grotesk (Arno Drescher), and the types of Moholy-Nagy. Among the digital representatives, we note ITC Bauhaus (1975, Ed Benguiat and Victor Caruso), P22 Bayer, and Dessau (by Gábor Kóthay). Penela's pages on Bauhaus. Jürgen Siebert on Bauhaus. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In truetype format: DIN-1451-Engschrift, DIN-1451-Mittelschrift-Alt, DIN-1451-Mittelschrift-DB, DIN-1451-Mittelschrift. These fonts were used in the old days on German cars for license plates, as well as on German trains. Page on train lettering by Thomas Sachs from Mühldorf. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the signage / brush face Laken (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belldorado
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Creator of the octagonal family called Longhorn (2012), which includes a 3d style as well as a stencil style. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer and illustrator in Trier, Germany. Creator of the typeface ION (2011), which is showcased on some of his posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer in Stuttgart. He created the art deco stencil face Crème de la rue (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator from Hannover, Germany. During his studies at the University of Appliedc Sciences and Arts in Hannover, he created a rounded bold sans typeface called Manchester (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Benjamin Krebs
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Benjamin Krebs
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Andreas Seidel lists the blackletter faces published by the Benjamin Krebs foundry:
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German creator of the Tuscan font Beans (2009) and the italic signage face Garcia (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Darmstadt in 1989, Berenike is a student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. Behance link. Creator of an alphabet, Corner (2010). This is not a font, I think. Creator of Peek (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type and graphic design competition, open to typefaces designed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Past winners were often selected for certain corporate projects, not for type design per se. The 2011 competition is the 43rd in this series. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer who has his own graphic design studio in Dortmund. Behance link. Creator of a great minimalistic logo face for the Swiss company Swyx (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German creator of the free medieval writing font Schnitger 1680 Regular (2009), which can be had from Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bernd Duesmann
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Type director and manager at Scangraphic in the 1980s and 1990s. Author of a number of thick specimaen volumes including Scangraphic Digital Type Collection A-F (1985), Scangraphic Digital Type Collection G-Z (1985), Scangraphic Digital Type Collection Index (1988), Scangraphic Digital Type Collection Supplement 1 (1988), and Scangraphic Digital Type Collection Supplement 2 A-Z Body types (1988). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2013, he published the black titling sans face Majoris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The designer of the well-known Formata typeface (available at Berthold), Bernd Möllenstädt was born in 1943 in Germany. He has lived in Westfalia and Berlin and now lives in Munich. He studied typesetting and graphic design, and joined the Berthold typefoundry in 1967. In 1968, he became the head of the type design department, and remained head until 1990. Lange was the artistic director there, and when Lange retired in 1990, Möllenstädt became type director. He designed two strong sans font families for the Berthold Exklusiv Collection, Formata (1984) and Signata (1993). Formata, a popular sans serif face, is the corporate typeface of Postbank, Allianz, VW Skoda and Infratest Burke. Since 1998, Möllenstädt has worked independently from his own studio in Munich, and continues his association with Berthold as an independent designer. He most recently completed small caps and fractions for Formata, and added the Euro symbol to many faces in the Berthold collection. At Dalton Maag, he was responsible for SkodaSans (2000-2001), a custom font family that may be downloaded here. | |
Designer of the condensed font Linotype Lichtwerk (1999). Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German creator of the iFontMaker font Wennsrockt (2010, a squarish handprinted face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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German graphical artist, painter and printmaker, 1872-1943. He studied at the Düsseldorf and Berlin Art Academies. From 1892 Bernhard Pankok had a studio of his own in Munich. There he freelanced as an artist, graphic artist and illustrator for the journals "Pan" and "Jugend". Greatly impressed by the British Arts and Crafts movement, Bernhard Pankok joined Hermann Obrist, Richard Riemerschmid, and Bruno Paul in founding the Munich Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk. Afterwards, he also designed furniture, stage sets, interiors and buildings, and painted portraits. An example of lettering: modern German capitals. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of many original pixel fonts at HI-TYPE. These include HI-Score, HI-Skyflipper. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This is also A Hundred Dollars and a Dog (AHDAAD), located in Mainz, Germany. This studio, run jointly by Isabelle Gehrmann and Stefan Ruetz, does graphic design and art direction. Creators of some (free) experimental typefaces for Neo2 magazine in Spain. These include BERT (2006, futuristic face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For many years, on and off between about 1970 and his death in 2009, Günter Gerhard Lange was the typographic director [of Berthold Direct Corp, and its German "predecessor" Berthold]. Lange, along with Bernd Möllenstädt and Dieter Hofrichter, formed the core of Berthold's Type Atelier located in München to continue the development of the Berthold Exklusiv typefaces. The classics in the collection include Akzidenz-Grotesk, Block, City, AG Book [Mobistar got tricked in 2007 into buying a custom font, Mobistar, from Berthold Types, but Mobistar is identical to AG Book], Delta, Formata, Imago and Laudatio. Frequent contributors in the 1970s and 1980s were Friedrich Poppl and Gustav Jaeger. There are also many less frequently used older faces like Normande (1860), Augustea (1905-1926), and Michelangelo (1950, by Hermann Zapf). MyFonts link. Cover of their sans catalog. Cover of their modern typeface catalog. [Image: Karim Ahmed uses Normande BT in a beautiful poster] The main Berthold typefaces at MyFonts. Large catalog of Berthold's typefaces, given in alphabetical order. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German teacher and typographer who created the calligraphic metafont Suetterlin, which can be found here. This font can be used for writing in the so-called Schwell style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The link recalls the history of this new company owned by the Hunts in Chicago. They bought the trademarks and some outlines from the bankrupt Berthold Types GmbH, but are not the successors of that famous German company. Since its creation, Berthold Types Limited has been sending (frivolous) legal letters usually related to alleged trademark violations. The typophiles discuss the situation, which turns a lot around the issue of Berthold not paying the original designers, such as Albert Boton. Erik Spiekermann is particularly (and rightfully) upset about the situation. A partial list of the "victims":
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View Berthold Wolpe's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German corporate font design firm (click on FontLabor). Mac fonts: Beta Modul, Beta Wyriad, Beta Kabel, Beta Blocker, Beta Base (pixel font), Beta Norm, Beta Vector. Based in Hamburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Betterfear.us (or: XXII Fonts, Or Doubletwo Studios)
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Typefaces: XXII Sinoz DSP (2010-2011, elliptical face), XXII Gory Bastard (2011), XXII BLACKMETAL WARRIOR (2010), XXII Menga (2010, a technical sans family), XXIIARMY (2007, stencil), XXIIDECONSTRUCTION-DESTRUCTION-AREA (2007, grunge), XXIIDONT-MESS-WITH-VIKINGS-HARDCORE (2007, octagonal), XXIISTRAIGHT-ARMY, Army Dirty (grunge stencil), XXIIUltimate-Black-Metal (2007, cracked metal look), XXII Scratch (2007, scratchy face), XXII DEVILS-RIGHT-HAND (handprinted), XXII BLACK-BLOCK (grunge), XXII MISANTHROPIA (2008, a rigid geometric sans family), XXII Arabian Onenightstand (2008: Arabic or Indic simulation face), XXII Urban Cutouts (2009, grunge), and XXII Static (2007, futuristic). His web site has a threatening nazi sort of look, but the fonts are (were) free. Betterfear.us claims to be located in St. Pauli, Hamburg, and is also known on MyFonts, where some of its fonts can be bought, as Doubletwo Studios. These include XXII Totenkult (2012), XXII Blackened Wood (2013), XXII Centars Sans (2012), XXII Daemon Runes (2012), XXII Total Death (2012), XXII HandTypewriter (2012), XXII Daemon (2012), XXII Marker (2011), XXII BLACK BLOCK SERIFA (2008), XXII Mescaline (2009 Western style), XXII Misanthropia (2010, geometric sans), XXII Urban Cutouts (2010), XXII Marker (2011), XXII Blasphema (2011) and XXII STREITKRAFT (2008, a stencil family with grungy versions added). Older list of fonts: Devils Right Hand (blackboard script), Black Block (grunge), Static (techno), Ultimate Blackmetal, Scratch, Don't Mess With Vikings, Army Dirty (grunge stencil), Army Straight, Black Block Eroded. Klingspor link. Alternate URL. Behance link. Dafont link. Another Behance link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner was a publisher in Leipzig, Germany. One of their typographic oeuvres was Schrift- und Polytypen-Proben (1846), a model book aimed at printers that contains some fonts, decorative borders, printer's ornaments, emblems, and clip-art motifs. Additional link with some images. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG
| Mannheim-based company which has the copyright of these fonts made in 1997: Uc_020, Uc_021, Uc_030, Uc_200, Uc_210, Uc_211, Uc_220, Uc_221, Uc_251, Uc_260, Ucs020, Ucs021, Ucs030, Ucs200, Ucs210, Ucs211, Ucs220, Ucs221, Ucs251, Ucs260, Ucs270. These were custom designed by Sigrid Hecker, Vits Bureau für Gestaltung, Mannheim. Note: F.A. Brockhaus AG was a printer and publisher in Leipzig, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bildung Hessen
| At Ulrich Kalina's site of Bilding Hessen, a few free Braille fonts: 8ptBraille0, 8ptBraille78, 8ptBraille8, 8ptbraille7, blistabraille, blistabraille6+. The 8pt series was designed and created by Kalina's colleague, Brigitte Betz, at the Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt Marburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
He worked at SWFTE in Hockessin, Germany. His CV states: "Cofounder and Vice President of Research and Development. Created Glyphix font software, the first ever on-the-fly font generator for DOS based systems, which sold over 50,000 copies. Executed 10 different product releases and library of 100 scalable fonts. SWFTE has since been bought by Expert Software." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bill Dettering
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Bionic Type Engineering
| Malte Haust is a German designer at T26 who made the Kernfusion, SynKro, InterFacer (1998) and DorisOrange families in 2000. DorisOrange free download at Maniackers in Japan. Also runs Bionic Type Engineering Labs in Duesseldorf, Germany, where Doris Fuerst (juici) and Malte Haust (dePhrag2.0) showcase their font creations such as the BTEBioterminal family (by Malte Haus). Hit the "decode" button. Synkro is a dot matrix font at T-26. Other fonts at T26 include Cyberwar (2000), Comsat (2000, a stencil family) and Comsat Navy (2000). Full font list in 2002: 01.MB Truth, Alphabot, Comsat, Comsat Navy, Comsat Breakdown, Cyberwar, Doris Orange, Interfacer, Kernfusion, Neo Tokio, SynKro, Team Riders, Technik, Überform. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften in hamburg. Designer at Designer Shock in Berlin of the fonts DSYogasaanAdvanced, DSYogasaanBeginners (both Indic simulation fonts, now commercial fonts at Die Gestalten) and DSMrGreenies (dingbats), all made in 2001. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bissantz SparkFonts 5
| TrueType Fonts for the character-oriented generation of sparklines with SparkMaker. The fonts were made in 2005-2006 by a German guy at Bissantz GmbH, Ralf Steinsträsser: TrueType Fonts for the character-oriented generation of sparklines with SparkMaker. They are dingbat fonts with lines, histograms, pieces of circles, all designed to make graphs, pie charts, and stock market charts. It is a data visualization tool. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Author of the (German) thesis Type and Image (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German graphic and type designer. He graduated in vusual communication in 1999 from the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Since 2008, he teaches at the HTWG Konstanz. At Volcano, he designed the modular geometric family Trimatic (2009-2010). Data Pilot (additional URL). Design Klinik: another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the destructionist face Georg (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German Linotype designer of Algologfont (1997). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the free handprinted font Typooo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blackletter, Fraktur, Rotunda
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100 Reichsmark from 1908, 20 Million Reichsmark from 1923, 50 Reichsmark in 1933 and 100 reichsmark in 1935. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Presently, she is located in Germany (according to MyFonts...). At least, she published Naej in 2012 at a German foundry, URW. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Bobsmade
| Erfurt, Germany-based creator (b. 1987) of Madsch (2008) and bobsmade font (2007, 3d). Alternate URL. Link at Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
BOODAS.DE
| Sankt Augustin, Germany-based creator (b. 1981) of the pixel face BOODASDREIECKE (2007): all the pixels are in fact small triangles. He also designed BOODAS.DE|Subtract (2007, negative octagonal), My (2007), Boodas.de|My|Regular (2007, octagonal, free), Redhead (2007, geometric, experimental), Bourier (2007, like Courier with bowls filled in and frills added), Slimbo (2008, hairline geometric). All his fonts are free. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
BOOKNET
| Free Booknet Architekt and BOOKNETFeather1 truetype fonts TTF by Wolfgang Reifarth from Kelkheim, Germany. Also a handwriting truetype font service. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Boris Brumnjak (b. Berlin, 1977) is a graphic designer who studied at LetteVerein Berlin until 1999, and who designed the monospace retrotech pixel font Facsimile at T-26 in 2001. Since 2000, he runs brumnjak.com / grappa blotto in Berlin, which is involved in corporate design. He practices design in Berlin, Wuppertal and Chicago. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
At [T-26], he designed Gaijin (2005, a great 3-d family, +Shadow), Raster (2002, a 10-weight rectangular lettering font family). In 2004, Boris joined Union Fonts, where you can get his typeface Dakar (2004). He started his own design studio, Boris Dworschak in 2004. In 2005, he founded dworschak&hoos with Heiko Hoos in Karlsruhe. He created the stencil face Exakt, and the mechanical faces Ikiru Sans and Ikiru Serif (2009) at Die Gestalten. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1975 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Kahl graduated in 2001 from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Pforzheim. Boris Kahl is Art Director of the German advertising agency MAGMA (Büro für Gestaltung) since 2001. He cofounded the German type and design weblog Slanted. His type designs are published at Volcano Type (Karlsruhe):
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Boris Moser
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Boris Schandert
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Bormanns Schrifterlass, Lucian Bernhard und der Völkische Beobachter | Lutz Schweizer published the text of the decree of January 3, 1941 signed by M. Bormann on behalf of the Nazi party. He declares: "Die sogenannte gotische Schrift als eine deutsche Schrift anzusehen oder zu bezeichnen ist falsch. In Wirklichkeit besteht die sogenannte gotische Schrift aus Schwabacher Judenlettern." [It is wrong to consider the gothic script (Fraktur) as a national German script. It is in fact nothing but Jewish Schwabacher characters.] Lucian Bernhard (1883-1972), one of Germany's main designers, had created Bernhard Fraktur (1913), and this was subsequently used in Der Völkische Beobachter, the central party newspaper and publication. It is ironic, Schweizer notes, that Lucian Bernhard himself was Jewish. On the topic Bormann's decree, Heinrich Heeger wrote Verbot Deutschen Schrift Durch Adolf Hitler in volume 55 (1997) of Die deutsche Schrift. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Also written Botjo Nikoltchev. The Bulgarian designer studied graphic and type design in Potsdam. He is living and working as a freelance designer in Berlin, where he is an art director at Carrois Type Design. . Creator of the free font Ropa Sans (2012, Google Web Fonts). The typeface is in DIN's circle of friends. Sofadi One is a scriptish font that is free at Google Web Fonts. Share Tech Mono (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a monospaced sans face. Share Tech (2012, Google Web Fonts) is its proportional version. Both are derived from Share (2012, Google Web Fonts). FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Braille DIN
| Braille DIN (2005, Fontshop) is due to Jochen Evertz. It follows the DIN specs 32980 and the packing standards of the German pharmaceutical industry. The price (159 Euros) is outrageous for a bunch of dots. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brandstiftung Design Gruppe
| Fonts by Sven Winterstein from Dortmund, Germany: Ronja Regular, Ronja Bold, Lichtbild (free) and Tri-Top (free). He works at Brandstiftung Design Gruppe. To find the fonts: Click "mehr Information" on the right bottom of the page and a window pops up. In the middle you will see "Brandstiftung Font Manufaktur": click the red arrows in the corresponding right cell. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Brass Fonts
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Custom fonts by Schneider: Girato (Giraffentoast), Fiona (MDR - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk), Sion Script (Sion Brauerei), Supralux (Super RTL). He is working on Veltro Pro (a script) and Breite Kanzlei (blackletter). MyFonts sells BF Anorexia (a grunge face by Schneider), BF Corpa Gothic (a DIN-like family done in 1997 by Schneider), BF Corpa Serif (1997, a slab serif family by Schneider), BF Cuba (a pixel face by Schneider), Fiona Script (2006, connected), Fiona Serif, BF Fiona Slab (2006, Guido Schneider), BF Fluxgold (1998, Schneider), BF Invicta (2006, a roman inscriptional family by Schneider), BF Jaruselsky (1997, Guido Schneider), BF Matula (1996, an organic face by Guido Schneider), BF Nobody (1995, a roman face by Schneider with pointy experimental serifs), BF Paul D (a grunge blackletter face by Schneider), BF Rotwang (1997, a roman face by Schneider0, BF Solo Sans (1995, Schneider's grotesk family), BF Stoneman (1997, a decorative poster face by Schneider), BF Styptic (a grunge paperclip face by Schneider), BF Sub Zero (experimental, by Schneider), BF Tara (1999, a humanist sans family by Schneider), BF Girando Pro (a garalde made by Guido Schneider in 2010). View Guido Schneider's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Breitenlauf
| Tobias Baggemann (Breitenlauf) is a German graphic and type designer. He designed Construct (2011, contructivist). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brigitte Betz
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Hamburg, Germany-based creator (b. 1973) of the techno face Pixochrome (2007). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bropix
| Bropix is a foundry in Trier, Germany, est. 2011, by Dirk Schuster. Bropix created Nouvelle Vague (2010-2011), a fat didone fashion mag headline face. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Frankfurt-based foundry established in 1892. Many of its shares were acquired by D. Stempel in 1919. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dresden-based foundry which later became Schriftguss, and then finally in 1951, VEB Typoart. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bund für Liturgie und Gregorianik
| Commercial music fonts by Holger Peter Sandhofe from Bonn. Hufnagelnotation, Quadratnotation and Medicaeanotation are medieval notations for Gregorian chants. Olus some beautiful medieval caps such as HPS Antiphonale, Solesmes, and HPS Vatikan-Initialen (from the 15th century). He also sells a HPS Garamond text family. Plus some commercial medieval fonts: HPS Vatikan-Initialen (caps font, 38 Euro), HPS Antiphonale (caps, 28 Euro), Solesmes (caps, 48 Euro), HPS Garamond (medieval text font family in Normal, Kursiv, Fett and Fett-Kursiv). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bureauschwarz
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Heiko&War War Min Schaefer run a wonderful site in support of Aung San Suu Kyi and a free Burma. They made 70 downloadable Burmese fonts: Burma, Burmese1_1, CECLASSIC, CEClassicTrueType, CEExcelTrueTypeMedium, CENORMAL, CENewClassicTrueType, CE_EXCEL, Karen3_0, Lik_Tai, Mya_NormalA, MyanTTF. Also at this site: AungSanBurma and SuuKyiBurma (by Soe Pyne), Innwa_, WwinBurmese and Wwin_Hlaing_Medium (by Win Tun), Type, Code1 and Code2 (by Shwe Naing-Ngan Myanmar True Type Fonts), Geocomp_S19A (by GEOCOMP MYANMAR), Theiree (by Len Aye), Win___Innwa (by Zaw Htut). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buro Lazer
| Andreas Münch (Buro Lazer, Nuremberg and Berlin) created the hairline octagonal face VS Lazor Racor (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Büro Dunst
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Designer of the text family Novel, which won an award at TDC2 2009. He calls his Novel Sans Pro (2011) a new humanist grotesque face---a contradictio in terminis. In 2011, he added Novel Mono Pro, a monospaced grotesk family, and Novel Sans Condensed Pro, a great family for information design. In 2012, Novel Sans Rounded Pro followed. Other faces: Heimat Sans (2010, a monoline sans family), FF DIN Round (2010), Heungkuk Sans (the corporate typeface of the Heungkuk Finance Group, Seoul, South Korea). Klingspor link. Atlas Font Foundry link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Büro für Aufmerksamkeit (was: Font Bastard)
| Type and graphic design studio run by Thomas Junold in Aachen, est. 2006. He is the designer of Actor Sans (2006), which started out based on ideas of Kai Oetzbach (if I read the text at 26zeichen correctly) More recent URL. Google Font Directory link where one can download Actor. OFL link. Font Bastard link (old). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Büro für Gestaltung Janssen
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Daniel Janssen's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
BuyMyFonts (or: BMF)
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In 2002 he founded Buy My Fonts that produces typefaces for corporate applications and also for standard use. Speaker at ATypI in Rome in 2002. In 2004 he published his book From the Cow to the Typewriter: the (true) History of Writing. The Alberobanana project tries to suggest an alphabet that could have been. In 2007, he started the pixel font project BMF Elettriche. Available from MyFonts, it includes 648 styles. Speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. Linotype link. Typefaces.de site. His fonts include
FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Genzsch&Heyse, who made Rex (1924). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Design studio in Husum, Germany. Behance link. Creators of the pixel font D3516N (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In October 2002, Stefan Claudius and Thomas Schostok started Cape Arcona, a foundry with free and commercial fonts, based in Essen, Germany. It also carries some fonts by Raymond Brekelmans. Catalog of their best selling typefaces. List of typefaces made before 2005: CIA, Cosmo-Pluto, Cosmo-Saturn, Elvis in Stereo, Moskow Has A Plan, Dr. No, Play-Real, Play-Roman, Play-Script, Play-Dynamic, Play-Wild, Sensuell, Viva Las Vegas. Free fonts: Address Unknown (Raymond Breukelmans), CA Traktor, CA Aircona, Aircona Shadow, Aircona Fill, No Dr. Tall, KissKissBangBang, GingerMint, Stardust, Texas Funeral, Strongman, Aires, Alternative3, AfterMidnightSaleJunk, Koenigsbrueck. In 2004, they designed CA Spy Royal (Thomas Schostok). CA Magic Hour (Stefan Claudius), CA Geheimagent (Stefan Claudius), CA Trasher (Thomas Schostok), CA No Dr. (Thomas Schostok), CA Prologue (Stefan Claudius). In 2005, they published CA Magic Hour Shadow (free font by Stefan Claudius), and CA Zaracusa (a sans by Stefan Claudius). Still in 2005, we have new free fonts by Stefanie Koerner: CA Dater, CA Fusion, and CA Scribb. The commercial fonts of 2005 include CA BND, CA Wolkenfluff, CA Emeralda (a script face), CA Blitzkrieg pop, CA 12C13C, CA Monodon, and CA Pussy Galore. In 2006, they added CA After Midnight Sale (free, by Schostok), CA Boiled Beef (free), C.I.A. (original design from 1999 by Thomas Schostok), Dekoria (a saloon font by Stefan Claudius), CA Subbacultcha (dingbats) and CA Zaracusa (a sans family by Stefan Claudius). In 2007, CAPartyRebel, CARebelParty (both comic book style fonts), CA BND Trash (grunge), CA Kink (Thomas Schostok), CA Uruguay (Thomas Schostok, a lettering for a revolution with huge ink traps), CA Coronado, CA Plushy (free brush script by Stefan Claudius) and CA Fragile were added. The harvest from 2009: CA Cula, CA Cula Superfat, CA Gothique Superfat, the grunge pack (including CA Nars 1,2,3,X, CA Trasher and CA Wolkenfluff), CA Misfit (by Stefanie Koerner). Fonts from 2010: CA Normal (grotesque sans, Stefan Claudius), CA Sivle (Elvis backwards: a grunge look, but made based on circular and rectangular overlaid grids; free). Fonts from 2011: CA Normal Serif (by Stefan Claudius). Fonts from 2013: CA Postal (Stefan Claudius). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Carl Adam taught design at the Staatlichen Fachschule für das Buchgewerbe in Hamburg. He designed the openface font Rex (1924, Genzsch & Heyse). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German printer and typographer (b. Leipzig, 1874, d. Scheidegg, 1944). In 1900, he joins his father's printing shop, Poeschel&Trepte, in Leipzig. In 1907, he starts up Janus-Presse with Walter Tiemann, the first private press in Germany. In 1918, Janus-Presse is taken over by Insel Publishing House. His fonts include Janus-Presse-Schrift (1907, with Walter Tiemann) and Winckelmann-Antiqua (1920). He published "Antiqua als deutsche Normalschrift" (with F.L. Habbel, Berlin, 1942). He is said to have brought the blackletter face Caslon-Gotisch in 1904 from England to Leipzig---the latter face showed up in the VEB Typoart catalog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Author/editor of Kunstwerke der Schrift Bund für deutsche Sprache und Schrift (Großenkneten 1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carl Kloberg
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Type and graphic designer, b. 1878, Vienna, d. 1960, Hamburg. From 1894-1899, he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. He taught at art schools in Vienna and Hamburg. He made Olympia (1914; Klingspor mentions 1929 for Olympia 1 and 1931 for Olympia 2), Czeschka Antiqua (1929; Klingspor says 1914) and Czeschka (1914, a grotesk) at Genzsch&Heyse. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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German designer of the sans family Ambigue (1999, Linotype), originally called Confidence. She studied under Jovica Veljovic in Hamburg. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Carlo Krüger
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Graphic design student at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, 2011-2013. During her studies in 2013, she developed the compass and ruler typeface Dysphoria. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carrois Type Design
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Typefaces (a *very* incomplete list, with apologies, but I can't tell from the web site who made what...):
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German digital photographer who lives near Kassel, Germany. Creator of Corbach (2006, hand printed style). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carsten Prenger (b. 1982, Osnabrück, Germany) graduated in 2008 from the University of Applied Sciences, Niederrhein. He works as a graphic designer and made the geometric face Circlez (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carsten Raffel
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Type designer at ACME. He made Nicoteen 13 AF (1998, grunge) and AF Syrup (1998, slab serif). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer at URW++ of FontForum CSPaket, CSCourtHandD (medieval calligraphy based on the handwriting of monks in the 16th century), CSFuzzyLogD and CSTakahashiD (oriental simulation, a hommage to the Japanese Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo and his character/figure Takashi from the Akira-Manga). Student in the Kunstschule Wandsbek in Hamburg. His fonts are sold under the name CS Fonts, and through URW++, and through MyFonts.com. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German teacher of mathematics and writing, b. Nürnberg, 1535, d. Breslau, 1598. Example of his lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Casper Neff introduced the chancery script (cancellaresca) in Germany in his 1549 book, Thesaurium artis scriptoriae. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CAT Design Wolgast
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Dafont link. One more URL. Fontspace link. Yet another URL. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. The list of his truetype and opentype faces as of 2011: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrentStart, 18thCenturyKurrentText, Alfabilder, AlteDIN1451Mittelschrift, AlteDIN1451Mittelschriftgepraegt, AmptmannScript, ApolloASM, Avocado, Barnroof, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, BerogaFettig-Bold, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A, BertholdrMainzerFraktur, Blankenburg-Regular, BlankenburgUNZ1A-Italic, BlankenburgUNZ1A, CasaSans-Regular, CasaSans, CasaSansFettig-Bold, CatShop, CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, ChunkFiveEx, CntgenKanzley-Regular, CntgenKanzleyAufrecht, DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, DiscipuliBritannica, DiscipuliBritannicaBold, Doergon-Regular, DoergonBackshift, DoergonShift, DoergonWave-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Elbaris, ElbarisOutline, ElficCaslin, EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular, ErikaOrmig, Eureka, FibelNord-Bold, FibelNord-BoldItalic, FibelNord-Italic, FibelNord, FibelNordKontur, FibelSued-Bold, FibelSued-BoldItalic, FibelSued-Italic, FibelSued, FibelSuedKontur, GoeschenFraktur, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A, Gondrin, GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift, GruenewaldVA-Regular, GruenewaldVA1.Klasse, GruenewaldVA3.Klasse, H1N1, HelvetiaVerbundene, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A-Italic, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A, LeipzigFrakturBold, LeipzigFrakturHeavy-ExtraBold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Bold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Normal, LeipzigFrakturNormal, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Bold, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-BoldItalic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A, Luxembourg1910, Luxembourg1910Contur, Luxembourg1910Ombre, MMX2010-Regular, Maassslicer3D, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, MaassslicerItalic, Makushka, MakushkaKontura, MakushkaQuadriga, MakushkaSecunda, MeyneTextur, MeyneTexturUNZ1A-Italic, MeyneTexturUNZ1A, Midroba-Regular, MidrobaSchatten, Moderne3DSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A-Italic, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A, ModerneGekippteSchwabacher, MoradoFelt-Regular, MoradoMarker, MoradoNib, MoradoSharp-Regular, Murrx, Nathan-CondensedRegular, Nathan-ExpandedRegular, Nathan-Semi-expandedRegular, Nathan, NathanAlternates-CondensedRegular, NathanAlternates-ExpandedRegular, NathanAlternates-Semi-expandedRegular, NathanAlternates, Nomitais, Nomitais, Numikki, Numukki-Italic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeVI9, PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, Proletarsk, Prsent60, Quimbie, Quimbie3D, QuimbieShaddow, QuimbieUH, Quirkus-Bold, Quirkus-BoldItalic, Quirkus-Italic, Quirkus, QuirkusOut, QuirkusUpsideDown, RostockKaligraph, RotundaPommerania, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A-Italic, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A, Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Schulfibel-Nord-Linie-2, SchwabenAlt-Bold, SchwabenAltUNZ1A-Italic, SchwabenAltUNZ1A, Stage, StrassburgFraktur-Regular, TGL0-16, TGL0-17, TGL0-17Alt, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, TGL31034-2, Tank, TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, TitilliumMaps29L-1wt, TitilliumMaps29L-400wt, TitilliumMaps29L-800wt, TitilliumMaps29L-999wt, TitilliumText22L-1wt, TitilliumText22L-250wt, TitilliumText22L-400wt, TitilliumText22L-600wt, TitilliumText22L-800wt, TitilliumText22L-999wt, TitilliumTitle20, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, VarietScala, Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, Via-A-Vis, Vrng, Waschkueche, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelLatein, WiegelLateinMedium, WolgastScript, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, WolgastTwoBold, XAyax, XAyax, XAyaxOutline, XAyaxOutline, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, YiggivooUnicode3D, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenDreihundertAlt, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenHundertAlt, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundertAlt, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech, kaufhalleblech, moebius. His type 1 fonts as of 2011: Avocado, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, CasaSans, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, Quimbie, QuimbieUH, RostockKaligraph, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech. A list of typefaces in alphabetical order, with descriptive comments provided by Reynir Heidberg Stefansson from Iceland: 18th Century Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting, Wiegel-coded), Alfabilder (Alphabetic picture font for the German alphabet), Amptmann Script (Partly-connected, upright writing, used on Prussian Railways pattern drawings), ApolloASM (Jugendstil, vaguely resembling an ornate Bocklin), Avocado (Handwriting, broad-nib pen-style), Berlin Email (Narrow sans-serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Berlin Email Serif (Narrow serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Beroga (All-minuscule, rounded marker-style sans-serif with ca. 8° slope), Berthold Mainzer Fraktur (Fraktur in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Blankenburg (Semicondensed Tannenberg in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Casa Sans (Squarish, broad-nib pen-style block writing), CatShop (Serif, soft of an acid-washed didone), cbe Normal (Sans-serif, narrow, somewhat cuneiform), Centre Claws (Sans-serif, Art Deco display, a bit like Broadway), Cöntgen Kanzlei (Cöntgen Kanzley) (Fraktur-based calligraphy by Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Wiegel coding), DiffiKult (Sans-serif, display, no horizontal lines), DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936 (The now-withdrawn Wide version of DIN 1451 traffic font), Discipuli Britannica (UK school handwriting), Doergon (Slab-serif, narrow-ish, all majuscule), Elabris (Elbaris) (Sans-serif, caps/smallcaps, shades of DIN1451 Engschrift), Elb-Tunnel (Sans-serif, based on signage in the old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg), Elbic Caslon (Elfic Caslon,Elfic Caslin) (A Caslon for the Queen Galadriel), Erika Type (Erica Type) (Slab-serif, typewriter, comes from Wiegel's old Erika typewriter), Eureka (Serif, caps/smallcaps, Art Deco/Jugendstil), Fibel Nord (Sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Süd (Fibel Sued) (Sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Vienna (Sans-serif, based on Austrian school primer), Fundamental Brigade (Sans-serif, geometric, some UNZ1 ligatures), Göschen Fraktur (Goeschen Fraktur) (Fraktur with a biblical feel, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Gondrini (Gondrin) (Sans-serif, geometric, display, shaded outlines, cookie-cutter), Greifswalder Deutsche Schrift (Handwriting, based on Rudolf Koch's Offenbacher Kurrent, Wiegel coding), Greifswalder Tengwar (Tengwar handwriting in Offenbach style), Gruenewald VA (Latin-style schoolhand, Wiegel coding), H1N1 (Heavy display face made of parallel wavetrains), Hardman (Heavy, wide, squarish logotype with connecting letters), Helvetia Verbundene (Swiss handwriting), Immermann (Display, resembles a seriffed Radio/Rundfunk, UNZ1 coding), Kaufhalle (Display, recreation of HO Kaufhalle logotype), Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift (Very plain fraktur, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Leipzig Fraktur (Fraktur for bread text, Wiegel coding), Leipzig Fraktur UNZ1A (Fraktur for bread text), Luxembourg 1910 (Sans-serif, Jugendstil display face from old spice drawers), Maass Slicer (Maassslicer) (Sans-serif, oblique display face, orig. logotype), Makushka (Sort-of an Elabris with minuscules, looks overlayable), Men Nefer (Slab-serif, geometric, UNZ1 coding), Midroba (Spur-serif, display, all-majuscule, heavy, octal), MMX2010 (Sans-serif, display, caps/smallcaps, TV game machine feel), Moderne Schwabacher (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Moderne Fette Schwabacher UNZ1A (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Möbius (moebius) (Sans-serif, display, bicolour (u/c = non-spacing fills, l/c = spacing outlines)), Morado (Connected handwriting with nib or marker pen), Murrx (Heavy display face made from ellipsoids on NE-SW axis), Mutter Krause (Serif, slanting, Jugendstil-feel.), Nathan (Slab-serif, hand-drawn.), Nomatais (Nomitais) (Elabris with multiple levels of outlines), Numukki (Conlang, knotted-line, good for separators and scenebreaks), Powerweld (Sans-serif, Bauhaus style, all-minuscule), Präsent 60 (PI font with various East German logos), Preussische IV 44 (PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3) (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type IV 44 version 3), Preussische VI 9 (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type VI 9 version 2), Proletarsk (Sans-serif, monoline, doubled-up questionmark), Quast (Brush type, all-majuscule, very rough outline), Quimbie (Sans-serif, all-majuscule, resembles Amelia), Quirkus (Sans-serif), Ring Matrix (LED matrix with ring LEDs, solid LEDs and ring LEDs with shadow), Rostock Kaligraph (Very round calligraphy, resembles rotunda), Rotunda Pommerania (Rotunda style, Wiegel-code (Regular only) or UNZ1-coded), Rudelskopf deutsch (Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms), Schwaben Alt (Schwabacher in Wiegel- (Rg only) or UNZ1-coding.), Stage (Sans-serif, narrow, Art Deco, fleeting taste of Broadway), Strassburg Fraktur (Handwritten fraktur, ornate majuscules, Wiegel-coding), Tank (PI font with (gas/petrol) tank station logos), TengwarOptime (Optima for Tengwar), TGL 0-16/0-17 (East German versions of DIN 16 and DIN 17 blueprint types), TGL 31034-1, TGL 31034-2 (East German versions of DIN 6776 / DIN EN ISO 3098 blueprint types), Utusi Star (Sans-serif, slight resemblance with Rundfunk), Varieté (Sans-serif, all-majuscule or caps/smallcaps), Vis-A-Vis (Serif, all-majuscule, split in middle), Volk Redis (Kurrent handwriting, anno 1930-1941), VrÃ¥ngö (LED matrix type like Ring Matrix), Waschküche (Serif, resembles Antykwa Torunska), Wiegel Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting), Wiegel Latein (Latin-style handwriting), Wolgast Script (Sloppy-looking handwriting with a broad-nib pen), Wolgast Two (Latin/Cyrillic handwriting), XAyax (Serif, Jugendstil, narrow, all-majuscule), Yiggivoo Unicode (Sans-serif, wide, tall x, board game packaging feel), Youbilee (PI font with various jubilee laurels), Verkehrszeichen (Zeichen) (PI fonts with traffic signs (in layers)), Verkehrszeichen alt (Zeichen Alt) (PI fonts with old traffic signs (in layers)). Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the child script font Hansel (1993). She is part of the Apply Design Group. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German handwriting font service: a truetype font of your writing costs 9.90 Euro. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1871-1872, C.E. Fetzer proposed a mathematically defined (raster-based) grotesk called Runde Groteskschrift. It was not a complete alphabet, but according to Albert-Jan Pool, it was the ancient ancestor of FF DIN. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Darmstadt-based type designer who created Meierschrift (1908, Schelter&Giesecke). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer of the blackletter font Centralschrift in 1853. Had his own foundry in Berlin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German-based Vietnamese designer of CN Times and CN Arial, free fonts adapted for Vietnamese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chicago-based punch-cutter, 1841 (Berlin)-1897 (Chicago). His typefaces have late Victorian and early art nouveau elements:
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ATF matrix and pattern maker. Born in Germany, he died in 1948. He was involved in the design of Cloister Cursive Handtooled (Cloister Handtooled Italic, 1923), Goudy Handtooled (1923; see Goudy Handtooled BT) and Novel Gothic (1929, a heavy art deco face), all in cooperation with Morris Fuller Benton. He created Quick-Set Roman&Italic in 19918, also at ATF. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles S. Kuzmanovic
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Charter Design
| Patrick Adamove (Charter Design) is the Hamburg-based designer of Horoscopia (2000, dingbats) and CharterD-Normal (1999, grungy) at Garagefonts. At Charterdesign, he created Dementia 13 and Planquadrata. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Garagefonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Chess Ole!
| This German chess site has the following chess truetype fonts: Cheq, CheqFig, ChessOle!, ChessOle!Figurin. The latter two fonts are made by Frank David from Göttingen in 1993. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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German digital artist, b. 1992, who lives in Karlsruhe. Creator of the angular tattoo or heavy metal face (or logotype) Molotov (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of GFWaterproof (1998), Storyboard, and Media Icons (1999) at GarageFonts. Chris was born in Romania and grew up in Germany. He lives in Emmershausen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Bauer
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German designer (b. 1978) of Rolli (2007, with Elisabeth Schwarz), a font with pictograms for handicapped people. Another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Fenner
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Christian Feurstein
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Software and TeX specialist at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, who designed AuriocusKalligraphicus (2004), a calligraphic type 1 handwriting font. In 2006, these fonts were added: Lukas Svatba (originally called AmiciLogo for the group Amici Musicae Antiquae in September 2004, this was changed, after adding Czech and Slovak diacritics for the wedding of Lukas Palatinus and Ludmila Nyvltova in the Spring of 2005), Jana Skrivana. Alternate URL. From the readme file: Each font features oldstyle digits and (machine-generated) boldface and slanted versions. Lukas Svatba is provided in a variant with a long s with the same input convention as in fraktur.sty by Matthias Mühlich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. Typecache link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Gwiozda
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German type designer (b. Achim, 1880, d. Darmstadt, 1954), brother of the more famous "Kleukens", Friedrich Wilhelm (1878-1956). In 1907, the two brothers started running the Ernst-Ludwig-Presse, the private printing shop of the duke Ernst Ludwig von Hessen. Burte-Fraktur by C.H. Kleukens was cut in 1928 for Mainzer Presse by Gustav Eichenauer, Rudolf Koch's favourite punchcutter. It was revived in 2003 by Manfred Klein. He also added a handwritten freestyle version, Burtine 2003, and another interpretation, Burtinomatic (2004). Judith Type (1923), a hookish hellish German expressionist typeface, was at the basis of Judith Type (2007, Nick Curtis) and Holofernes NF (2007). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Künzer
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Christian Küsters
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In 2008 he designed Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, Peace), Articulate, Font from NATO (military slab serif), Glockenwerk (pixel clock font), Glockenwerk Uhrzeit, Flags-and-NATO (dingbats), Font from NATO alpha, Tall, Flying-Circus (Western showtime face to imitate the Monty Python titling font), LCD-display, Simple (stencil font with 700 glyphs), TMNT, Tetris, sharp-pixels, Raster, Quad (nice stencil face), Inverted, Propaganda (Cyrillic font simulation), Empty Monospace, Pride, Stadium, Rounded, Dear God (script pixel face), Celtic Style. In 2009, he added 7x12 Pixel Mono, @bcde, Abstract Letter Patterns, Music, Texture, Diagonal, Gothic, Illusio, Unispace (typewriter type), Narrow Serif, Delta, Alien Double (great!), Donut, Flags-and-NATO, Simple-Fraktur-Initial, Simple-Fraktur, Texture, Friendly Serif, (+Soft), Invisible, Sharp, Heavy Diacritics, Concentrium, Continuous Digital Display, Elves, Pixies, Space Movie (+Ligatures), Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, +Peace), Articulate, BBT Biline Twist, Biline Twist, Empty Monospace, Unfix, Infix, Pride, Tyre Stencil (like tire threads---nifty...), and Overlap. FontStructions from 2010: Even (gridded), Brilliance, Slalom Vision, Quirky Serif, 7x12PixelMono, Ball Terminator, Gearbox, Prefix, Upside Down, Way Too Small (a minimalist pixel face), Butterfly, Ribbon Gymnastics, 2D Barcode, Horizon Stencil, Biline Twist, Quirky Serif, Blocktur, Symmetricus (alien writing?). FontStructions in 2011: 12 dice, Monotwist (tall, monospaced), Squarific (fat octagonal), Swirl (curly), Sweet (Victorian), Easter Eggs, 50 Fifty (experimental, geometric), Squarific (+Stencilious), Spiralix (spiral-themed for Latin and Cyrillic), Bloccus, Feet (monospaced). Creations from 2012: Düpbøl (German expressionist face), Slice, Blocktur, Alien Double, 7:12 serif (pixel face), Blick, Dry Heat (Isolates and Initials, Medials, Finals: an Arabic simulation family), FF9 Coin Slots, FF8 Untalic, FF7 w1de, FF6 Lean Mean, FF5 Bamana, FF4 Circulation, FF3 3times7, FF3 Runization, FF1 Glitchy, Squared, Puzzlish, Steep, Digitalis (octagonal), 50 Fifty (artsy and geometric), Monotwist, Infix. FF stands for Forgotten Fonts. Typefaces made in 2013: Squarific Fraktastic, Metro Sans (pixelish). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Trier-based graphic designer, who created the angular Static Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Zeitz, Germany, b. 1986. Creator of the grunge font Molotow (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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German type designer (b. 1956). At Delbanco-Frakturschriften, he created DS-Eisenacher Fraktur (1994), DS Wartburg Fraktur (1998, based on Barock Fraktur), DS-KlingsporBorgis, DS-Kochfraktur, DS-Jessen-Schrift (1998), DS-Schmuck (1998) and DS-Tannenberg. Lives in Siegen, Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Germany's Apply Design of fonts such as GaramondRough (1997) and Rohrfeder-Rough (1997). At Elsner&Flake, he designed EF Tempodrom (display letters between thick lines). Located in Bielefeld, he started Kobaltblau. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Mannheim-based designer of Linotype Seven (1997, brush face) and Linotype Zwitter. Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German punchcutter who ran the Christian Zinck foundry in Wittenberg. Most of his work was done in the early part of the 18th century, when he supplied matrices to the Leipzig-based foundry B.C. Breitkopf. Zinck was born in Leipzig in 1698, and moved ca. 1720 to Wittenberg. Examples taken from the Norstedt foundry in Stockholm which had acquired some of the matrices: Colonel Fractur No22 and Nonpareil Fractur No23, Grobe Mittel No1, Grobe Mittel No2, Kleine Mittel Schrift No1, Petit Gammal Schwabach, Tertia Antiqua, Tertia Antiqua. Christian Zinck had a son, Johann Ludwig Zinck, b. 1728, Wittenberg. He moves in 1752 to Berlkin, where he was in charge of Fredrik II's typefoundry and died in 1770. Christian Gottlob Zinck started a typefoundry in 1764 in Augsburg, where he died in 1778. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Berlin who made the rectangular paper cut-out face Super Sonic Geisha (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich
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Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich
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Christina Maria Bee
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Christina Bee ("Krizbi") is a type designer from Darmstadt who studied in Den Haag at the KABK in 2006, where she designed the Renaissance Antiqua face Olga while doing a Masters. Olga won an award at TDC2 2007. Christina lives in Hamburg. She participates in Type Destroyers with Frederik Berlaen. Other typefaces by Bee: Pony (2007, stencil). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type design student in 2012 at ENSAD in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer who published Linotype Boundaround in 1997. Linotype page. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christina Schultz works as a freelance designer in London and Berlin. Her current focus is on iconography and intelligent fonts. Recent projects include logo, corporate and web design. She graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design with an MA in Communication Design in January 2005. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, she spoke about Piclig (for picture ligature), an intelligent OpenType font, which makes it possible to create symbols out of letters. These letters, when typed in a specific order, merge automatically and form picture ligatures. To achieve this replacement, piclig uses OpenType's contextual character substitution. The font contains a library of 112 symbols which are encoded not as images, but as characters. Piclig occupies little disk space, which is important in applications such as mobile phones. FF PicLig (2005, Fontshop). FF Piclig won an award at TDC2 2006. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christine Gertsch
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Graphic designer in Ulm. Behance link. He created the horizontally striped typeface DIN Cut (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christoph Dunst
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Christoph Dunst
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Graphic designer Christopher Kalscheuer studied from 1988 to 1994 at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart under Professor Günther Jacki. Since 1994 he has been working as a designer in Stuttgart. Creator of the organic text family FF Maverick (1995), which was originally designed for cultural events and projects oriented toward packaging. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer from Trier, b. 1983. Creator of the quirky curly font The Croach (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christoph Koeberlin
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Christoph Koeberlin
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Creator (b. 1984) of the handwriting fonts Daubed (2008), Freihand (2008) and Kaunitz (2008). He also made the dingbat Ugly Faces (2008), linear-edged Koecki (2008) and the pixel face Koecki Pixel (2008). Christoph Köckerling lives in Köln, Germany. Link at fontsy. Link at Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christoph Mescher was born in 1984 in Tübingen/Germany. After he graduated from Hochschule Pforzheim, University of Applied Arts in 2010, he has been working as a freelance graphic designer. He created some commercial typefaces, including the purely geometric typeface Synthica (2010, Volcano), which started out as a project at the Fachhochschule in Pforzheim, and is meant to be a reflection on electronic music. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christoph Mueller Graphic Arts
| Graphoc designer Christopher Mueller (Aachen, Germany) created free fonts such as Mom's Typewriter (1997, old typewriter), NoRefunds (1997, grunge), AZ Crushed (1997, grunge) and Autonomous Zentrum. Among his non-free fonts, most of which are grunge types, Goyathlay is the most interesting one. Other typefaces by Christoph include Spotnik&OldRomanTimes, BonnieAndClyde&BonnieAndClyde GoodOldDays, EsteticaWrecked, EsteticaWreckedExtraLetters, PsychoUno&PsychoZwo&PsychoSan. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in 1980, Rankers is a free-lance graphic designer and cofounder of the design network DREIZEHN33 in 2006 in Freiburg, Germany. In 2008, he started his own studio in Freiburg. At Volcano Type, he created the experimental face Shiver (2008). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Drawn with a feather, Deadman (and Deadman Blotting and Deadman Squirting) is a gorgeous wild handwriting face reminiscent of the handwriting of British illustrator Ralph Steadman, and of Treefrog. It was published at Volcano in 2006 and has this wonderful motivation: The font family DEADman is mostly inspired by the weird style of the British illustrator Ralph Steadman. He had a long partnership with the American journalist Hunter S. Thompson, drawing pictures for several of his articles and books such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Web page on the russification of Windows and related Slavic language font links. Christoph Singer who used to be based in Tübingen, Germany, created these (free) fonts: an old Russian lettering font Old Cyrillic, Metropol 95, Kirillica Nova Unicode (1998), Kirillica Wincyr (Old Church Slavonic), as well as the old Cyrillic fonts XSerif Trediakovskij, Xserif Old Russian, and XSerif Unicode. Singer's page on Unicode-compliant fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the experimental face Zopf (2009, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christoph Stahl (b. 1975, Marburg, Germany) studied at Kunsthochschule Kassel in 2002, and teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing since 2003. First in the Computer Art Studio, and later in the School of Design and City Design School, Stahl wrote a doctoral thesis on Hanzi of the West, Letters of the East (2008- 2010). He earned a P.h.D. in Visual Communication at Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in 2010. Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Hanzi of the West, letters of the East. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the fresh slab serif family Prana Pro (2011, URW), a typeface developed during his studies with Prof. Gertrud Nolte at the faculty of design of the Hochschule Würzburg, and under the artistic direction of Volker Schnebel, URW's type director. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christoph Windmueller
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Christopher Mueller
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Author of "Ein Geistliches Magazien, oder: Aus den Schätzen der Schrifftgelehrten zum Himmelreich gelehrt, dargereichtes Altes und Neues" (1770-1772), Germantown. I cite a blurb from an exhibit at Columbia University: "Christopher Sower (1721-1784) was one of the most prosperous printers and businessmen in the North American colonies. Around 1740 he imported type from the Egenolff-Luther foundry in Frankfurt and used it to print many books, including the 1743 German Bible, the first to be printed in any European language in America. By 1770 he had imported matrices as well, and by 1772 his son Christopher Sower II began what may be considered the first successful American typefoundry, although he still used European equipment. The legend at the bottom of page 136 of this religious periodical, published in late 1771 or early 1772, reads "Printed with the first types that have been cast in America." When the younger Sower died in 1778, his estate contained not only letter molds but also a large quantity of antimony, the critical ingredient of type metal, which at that time had to be imported to America." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer in Hamburg. He works as a graphic designer for the German advertising agency Scholz&Friends. In 2010, he made the square sans family Pragmatik. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
CJK Unifonts
| Arne Götje, a German who lives in Taiwan, works on a project to provide CJK unicode fonts. His work is based on the Arphic fonts AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni and AR PL ZenKai Uni. He added the Chinese dialect phonetic symbols. Furthermore, he merged the embedded Firefly Sung bitmap font into CJKUnifonts. In 2005, the work of the Hong Kong freefonts project (OAKA group) was also merged into CJK Unifonts. Additional URL. Free high quality Chinese truetype Unicode fonts under the Arphic license (Arphic is based in Taiwan). They contain almost 22000 characters (!!!) and contain glyphs for Big 5 Chinese, GB2312-80 Chinese, ISO8859-1,2,3,4,7,9,10,13,14,15 and Bopomofo extended for Minnan and Hakka (Taiwan). The missing glyphs for Japanese, Korean and HKSCS are under development. The fonts are Uming (Mingti, or printed) and Ukai (Kaiti, or brush stroke). They are gorgeous and reproduce well at small screen sizes. Subprojects include modules for typing the Taiwanese styles Minnan and Hakka. Colloborators: Aaron Cheung, Akar Chen, Alex Ho, Chow Lok Yuen, CP Tung, Eric(EC-graphic), Eric Chan Chi Shing, Firefly, Ga Ming, Jack Tse, John Ma, Kevin Tse, K.M. Lau, Kong, Kwok Wun Yung, Lam Wai Tung, Munkwui Ho, Qianqian Fang, Simon Wong, Shiu Kau Wong, Willy Yuen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German calligrapher who made a stunning cover in 2003 for the blackletter magazine Die deutsche Sprache. Short bio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the outlined poster face Lokomo (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Claudia Kipp's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer and illustrator in Berlin. Communications Design student in Berlin at the University of Applied Science (HTW Berlin). Creator of a calligraphic blackletter pair of typefaces in 2012 tentatively called Vomit Serif and Vomit Blackletter. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Claudia Walde (Germany) published Street Fonts. Graffiti fonts from around the world. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alsbach, Germany-based web designer, b. 1989. At Devian Tart, he published Pixelize (2008, pixel face). Kernest link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designers of the blackletter face Neuzeit Fraktur (1909, H. Hoffmeister). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the experimental (modular) face Sega (2009, 26plus-zeichen). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Closefonts
| Closefonts is a foundry that was set up in 1997 by Simon Schmidt (b. 1968, Hamburg). He studied graphic design and typography at Parsons School of Design, New York and at Kunstschule Alsterdamm in Hamburg, Germany. After three years as an art director in advertising, he became aa self-employed graphic and type designer specializing in corporate design. His typefaces can be found at Fontomas and Closefonts. They include Monolith, Delay (2001, has kitchen tile weights), Beta, Hybrid, Ogra, Ograbic (Couscous, Falafel, Kebab: Arabic simulation faces), Hybrid, Schlager (50s diner font), Ness, Lorem Ipsum, Maxpo, Call (free), Gridder (1999, free), Dotter (free), CloseRaceDrive (2000), CloseRacePark (2000), CloseCall, CloseGridder. Some of Simon Schmidt's fonts can be bought at Fountain: Delay, Hybrid, Monolith, Ness, Schlager. He designed the pair Park and Drive in his Race series at fontomas.com in 2000. He created Hookline in 2001 at Fontomas. His 2007 fashionably elegant Vogue-style sans face Mondän is stunning. FontShop link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
cmbright: Computer Modern Bright
| Family of sans serif metafonts based on Donald Knuth's CM font. It is `lighter' and less obtrusive than CMSS. Together with CM Bright there comes a family of typewriter fonts, `CM Typwewriter Light', which look better in combination with CM Bright than the CMTT fonts would do. The whole package is by Walter Schmidt. A commercial-quality type 1 version of these fonts is available from Micropress. Free versions are available, in the cm-super font bundle (the T1 and TS1 encoded part of the set), and in hfbright (the OT1 encoded part, and the maths fonts). Development spanned 1996-2004. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Codeluxe
| Hugo Goeldner's German outfit which has a free slab serif pixel font to its credit: Delight (2006). In 2011, he created the monospaced type family for tables and programs called CDLX Mono (YWFT). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creator (b. 1975) in Dresden, Germany, of Splatter (2011, ink splatter dings), Kristall (2011), Sketchcore (2011, dingbats of cartoon characters), UpstairsCVJMgraff (2010, comic book style), stencilddtown (2010, scanbats) and 3dfatsche (2010, 3d face, caps only). In 2012, he made Codygraff, the black rounded typeface Donner, Three Tentakel (2012, octopus-shaped glyphs), and the dingbat typefaces Human Chain and Electricsphere. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Site run by five guys from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. They designed CombitBox, a modular font of basic blackletter pieces. These pieces fit together to make nice blackletter fonts. Included are André Apel (Zürich), Jan Schöttler (München), Kim Hensler (Villingen), Thomas Wimmer, and Tom Prochnow (Dresden). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Comedia is a Swiss type magazine established in 2002. It has many interesting articles on typography and type design (in French and German). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type founder who succeeded Jacques Sabon in 1580. He was the son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office. His catalog of type specimens is dated 1592. The "Berner specimen" of 1592 formed the basis of the free Google Web Font family EB Garamond (or: Egelnoff-Berner Garamond) developed by Georg Duffner. In 1626, his foundry passed into the hands of Johann Luther. At the time, he was the main type supplier for Germany, the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Constantin Groß (aka Connum) (b. Karlsruhe, Germany, 1987), who lives in Karlsruhe, designed the handwriting faces TSS Scrubs Logo (2006) and TSS Scrubs (2006). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typefaces Split One and Split Two (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1807 in Frankfurt am Main, May was one of the most famous puchcutters of his day. Like many punchcutters, he started out under Andreas Schneider, the first punchcutter of the Dreslerschen Giesserei. In 1828, he went to England, where he worked for several years at Watts (London), Stephenson, Blake & Co. )Sheffield) and Miller & Richard (Edinburgh). He became partnet of Alex. Wilson & Son in London, where he worked from 1845-1852, when that company stopped operations. He returned to Frankfurt in 1852 where he cut many Fraktur and Antiqua types until 1963. Coota, a foundry in Stuttgart, bought his Bourgeois-Fraktur. He returned to London in 1863, and died there in 1865. May's company was then taken over by his son F. F. May, also a punchcutter. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German creator (b. 1989) of the handprinted font Fairy Cosmo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Critzler
| Young Berlin-based type designer who made the Chemo family, Bionic Dynamic, Localizer, Localizer Clones and FF Magda Clean (1997, together with Henning Krause), a monospaced typewriter font related to Cornel Windlin's Magda, all at FontFont. His company is called Critzler Font Investigation. He created the fun Linotype faces Linotype Down Town, Linotype Go Tekk and Linotype Mindline in 1997. Before 1990, he was an East-German sign painter. He recently founded Pfadfinderei, an "all-round" agency for visual communication, where he designed the futuristic techno display type family FF TradeMarker (2007), Flomaster (1998, graffiti, done with Jayone), Vinataba Solid (2002), Nicola Zucka (2002, connected cursive script), Franz Jäger (2000, ultra fat, mini-slabbed), and Neo (2002, geometric as in the logo of the Neo car). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
CybaPeeCreations (or: Typoasis)
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Her own creations:
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View the Stempel typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Picture of Gottlieb Daimler and his son Paul. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dan Reynolds
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Dan Reynolds
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German designer of Vision Regular (1997, Linotype), a font that takes inspiration from paperclips. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer at Fontkitchen Type Foundry of Cosicon (2003, dingbats) and Obivan (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontspace link. He used the company name Brainstorm at some point. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German graphic designer who has his own studio. He created the (free) experimental font family Drebiek (2008) around the theme of the triangle, the morbidly obese Diet-Fat (2008), Cartoons Abstract (2009), the monoline Cinga (2009), the experimental Boss M (2009), the art deco stencil face Trage Keinen Namen (2008) and the simple handwriting face Berger&Berger Caps (2009). One can also download a font tool called Typometer. At Dafont, he calls himself Dundeee. Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Bretzmann
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German creator of the free handprinted faces Brush Strokes (2010), Sloppy Fingerwriting (2010), Picture Book Smooth (2010), and Picture Book Serif (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Stuttgart (1971), Daniel Fritz designed FF Ticket in 2000. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1978, Ingolstadt, Germay), located in Amsterdam where he does business as San2Design. Behance link. He admits influences of Swiss design and Massimo Vignelli, and, not surprisingly, created a sans face called San2 (2010) which reflects these minimalist influences. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Empire (2009, blackletter). He is based in Berlin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Rothenbuch, Germany, who created the sans face Ela Sans (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the handprinted families Frau Becker (2011) and Linda (2011), together with Volker Schnebel at Profonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German artist (1470-1536) who created Alphabet of Capital Roman letters with metaphorical ornaments, an excessively ornamented alphabet. See here. Digitizations of his work include:
Scans of his orginal work: German Capitals (1549). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Janssen
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Berlin-based graphic designer. Creator of the monoline architectural typeface Positive Sans (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and art director in Daasdorf, Germany, b. 1983. In 2009, he created the geometric experimental face Bauklötze. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Perraudin (b. 1982) has worked with Uebele in Stuttgart, as a freelancer in Berlin, and since 2008 at the KMS team in München. Before that, he studied Information Design in Stuttgart, Germany, and Graz, Austria, where he graduated with distinction in 2007. He lives in Munich, Germany, and works as a designer in the areas of corporate design and typography. His first release, the extensive Parka family of sans faces, started as part of his graduation project and benefited from the support of type designers Günter Gerhard Lange and Georg Salden. The Parka family was extended to 12 styles in 2008 and 2009, and was published by Font Bureau in 2010. Bergamo (2012) is a comprehensive angular book typeface. He studied in the Typemedia program at KABK Den Haag, class of 2012. His graduation project there is a typeface called Dato (Sans, Serif). Dato Serif is slightly angular and reads well at small sizes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and art director in Berlin. Behance link. Creator of some beautiful typographic posters, such as the ones that announce some plays at the Volksbühne Berlin (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Reuber (Cologne, Germany) used Impact to design the ornamental caps font Goldsun (2012). His experimental water-inspired typeface H2O (2012) is simply spectacular. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author with Gilmar Wendt and Hans Peter Willberg of Schriften erkennen: eine Typologie der Satzschriften für Studenten, Grafiker, Setzer, Kunsterzieher und alle PC-User (1997, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Daniel Schops
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Typedia link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel von Appen
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Daniel Woessner
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Type designer who created Linotype Face Value, an original dingbat font with faces showing up on dice. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This outfit in Offenbach, Germany, used to sell a package of twelve commercial fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daryl Roske is a British and German national studying and working in Montreux, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany. He studied visual arts at the College Voltaire in Geneva, graduating in 1991. He has carried out identity designs for Buitoni, The Art Center (Europe), the IDRH, and the Federal Office of Civil Aviation. Fobia is his first typeface (Font Bureau). A fun and exciting font, it is also in Robin Williams' book "A Blip in the Continuum" (Peachpit Press). Bauklotz (2010) are letters made from building blocks. Behance link. shr communication GmbH is his art direction and graphic design business in Hamburg. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Software corporation based in Düsseldorf and Needham Heights, MA. From the web page: "DATA BECKER CORPORATION (www.databecker.com) is a privately held publisher of high-quality, value-priced computer software and books for the North American retail market. DATA BECKER CORPORATION, founded in 1999, joins its associate company, DATA BECKER GmbH&Co. KG (Düsseldorf, Germany), one of the leading publishers of computer software, books, and magazines throughout Europe. Together they form a worldwide publishing powerhouse with operations in every major consumer software market." "Your Handwriting/Mi Letra/Meine Handschrift" is a 20 USD utility that lets you transform your scanned handwriting (you need a scanner though) into a handwriting font (truetype). For PCs. It can also be used to create fonts. Alternate URL (CD ROM Meine Handschrift). Alternate URL. See also here, here and here. Data Becker also sells a cheap CD with 2500 truetype fonts called Goldene Serie Schriftenpaket. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German creative director located in Hamburg. He designed the fat counterless face Assumption (2010). Behance link. He also made some typographically (and textually) strong advertising posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Offenbach-based German designer (b. 1979, Frankfurt). Co-founder of Magazin 212 in 2001. At typeoff.de, he created the symbol font Teppic (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Schleife (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Hubner
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Graphic designer in Berlin. Creator of the free font Outasight (2012, spurred). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator David Ippendorf (Wuppertal, Germany) created the display face Polygram (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German creator in Berlin (b. 1976) of I Robot (2008, FontStruct), and Wecker (2009, LED/octagonal). Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based designer. With FontStruct, David designed the modular typefaces Ines Stencil (2013) and Ines Regular (2013). Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer who grew up in Dresden, and has worked as a designer in Amsterdam since 2006. He created a thick counterless typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Phillips
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German founder of the D. Stempel AG (Frankfurt, 1895). Born in 1869, died in 1927. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
David Thometz
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David Thometz Design
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In 2004, David Thometz Design made its debut at MyFonts with Seriatim (dingbats), Silvertone Woodtype and Hefeweizen. |
David Waschbüsch
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German researcher at Ruhr University Bochum. Creator of the font Minoan Linear A (2004), which has the glyphs for the still undeciphered Minoan language. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the display typeface Neukreuz (2013), which was developed during a stay in Berlin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Deckersche Schriftgießerei
| Berlin-based foundry of Rudolf Ludwig Decker. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A project of Johannes Bergerhausen at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany. In 2005, the database of glyphs was opened for submission of material via the internet. They hope to make a gigantic database of all the world's characters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer, b. 1984. Home page. In 2010, he created Dancing DL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Delbanco-Frakturschriften
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Some of the copyright notices refer to the Bund für deutsche Sprache und Schrift, and others to PrimaFont, and this may explain some of the foundry's history. 1994 catalog. Part of the 1999 catalog. Part of the 2002 catalog. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German designer of the free handwiting face Denise Handwriting (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Cutout (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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German type designer, b. 1986, Krefeld. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Krefeld. In 2010, he created the blackletter face Flik (Volcano). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German creator of the handprinted face Dennis (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and designer in Denver, CO, who was born in Bavaria. He created the shiny 3d face Glitch Pro (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Der Graph
| Thomas Helbig (Der Graph) is a prolific experimental font designer, so much so that I created a separate web page for him. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This is the title of the German language article by legal experts Till Jaeger and Olaf Koglin which appeared in Die TeXnische Komödie 2/02, pages 35-46, 2002. It describes font protection in Germany and Europe. A summary:
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German design news. Has a small number of typographic items. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design Tourist
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Pandorum (2012, a spaceship typeface, by Henning Brehm and Alejandro Lecuna) was especially designed for film sets in the science fiction movie Pandorum starring Ben Foster, Antje Traue and Denis Quaid. At Vette Letters, Henning Brehm created the squarish oriental simulation face VLNL Kimchi: The Kimchi font had its starting point in the making of the film Cloud Atlas, based on the novel by David Mitchell and directed by Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer. A first version of Kimchi was created for Papa Song---an underground fast food restaurant in a futuristic Neo Seoul in the year 2144. It was used for the menus, advertisement and packaging. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Free font download site with a nice preselection, but lots of clicking. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer Shock
| Commercial pages with about 80 (mainly pixel, techno and screen) fonts. Designer Shock is located in Berlin. Some of the fonts: DSBees (2003), DSBeeswax (2004), DSBembi (2002, paperclip type), DSBembijaga (2001), DS 1D (2000), DS 2D (2000), DS 3D (2000), DSClone, DSClone3D, DSCutout, DSHomeBack (2001), DSHomeFront, DSHomeSide, DSHomeTop, DSImitate, DS IBM series (2004), DSMrGreenies, DSGutschrift series (2003), DS Lane (2001: triline type), DSMufdi, DSMufdi3DL, DSMufdi3DR, DSNSW45, DSNSW55, DSNSW65, DSNSW75, DSNSW85, DSNSW95, DSP9RMX (2001), DSP9RMX3D, DSSQR35, DSSQR45, DSSQR553DL, DSSQR553DR, DSSQR55, DSSQR65, DSSQR75, DSSQR85, DSTicket35, DSTicket45, DSTicket55, DSTicket65, DSTicket75, DSTicket85, DSTicket95, DSVDOTXT1, DSVDOTXT2, DSVDOTXTError, DSYogasaanAdvanced, DSYogasaanBeginners, DS1D, DS2D, DS3D. Alternate URL. The main designer is Stefan Gandl. Others include Markus Angermeier, Birte Ludwig and Robert Meek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
From Hamburg, Reimers designed the electronic circuit dingbat font Circuits in 1992. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I am unsure about the display typeface Deutsche Anwaltshotline (lit., hotline for German lawyers), a free font that was ublished in 2013. One refers to Deutsche Anwaltshotline, but I assume that this is just a ruse to increase traffic to this site [behavior expected from lawyers] or a link by someone who has a beef with the site [expected behavior against lawyers]. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German writing rules, by Roman Schneider and Dr. Klaus Heller. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The German handwriting model for schools (Deutsche Schreibschrift) was also adopted in Austria as these examples from 1953 (due to Professor Alois Legruen) and 1971 show. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German institute based in Berlin. Owners of Fette Engschrift D (URW++). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dezyner Records (was: Dezyne.de)
| Sebastian Bentler at Dezyner Records is the German designer (b. 1981) of mostly techno/futuristic fonts. Partial list: Neue Saat (2002, futuristic), Mayagen-r (2001), Tesh (2001), Smart AI Expansion (2001, pixel font), Cyborg 45 (2001), Quadspeed (2001, pixel font), FutureFlash (2001). Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Sebastian Pertsch's German language site. Free fonts: AdventureNormal, Cherry, FolioBT-ExtraBold. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German typographical rules explained by Marion Neubauer. Continued here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Die Entwicklung unserer Schrift
| Peter Doerling's visual overview of the styles of writing in Germany, for books, official documents (Urkunden) and in letters. For books, he takes us here:
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Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Book in German published by enschedé en zonen in Haarlem in 1919. Now available on the web, it deals with blackletter type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dieter Hofrichter
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German designer of the handwriting fonts Linotype Sketch (1997) and Linotype Matthias (1994), a winner font of Linotype's 1st Type Design Contest. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dieter Steffmann
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Dieter Steffmann's Homepage
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A set of TeX service files for many of the decorative caps fonts was published by Maurizio Loreti from the University of Padova. The collection is now also available in OpenType. Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Germany's Apply Design of fonts such as MarieLuise (1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer (b. 1961) of Observer (2012, an alchemic font), Anime (2012, a mysterious alphabet), Galactica-Pyramid-Card-Game (2009, dingbats), Lost Font (2007), Sci-Fi-Logos (2006) and DingTrek (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital Type Company (DTC)
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Catalog of Volker Schnebel's typefaces. He designed Kronos-Trilogie, DTC Hermes, Imperial and Joker DTC (now at URW++). He digitized Hunziker's Siemens family, and made custom type for Swiss Re and ZF. He created FAZ-Fraktur (with G.G. Lange, at URW, the house font of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung based on Fette Gotisch; well, Times Ten and Eighteen are the other house fonts of that newspaper) and Biblica (with Kurt Weidemann). At MyFonts, one can buy Black Market DTC, Hermes DTC and Imperial DTC as well as the SoftMaker families Dirty, Funky, Rough, which come in a total of 37 mostly grungy styles and are dated 1999. In 2010, he created Linda (handprinted, Profonts), Marita Pro (Profonts), Manuel Pro (Profonts) and Martin (a sans; Profonts). In 2011, he published Justus Pro at URW, a modern Egyptienne with a humanistic touch. Catalog of DTC's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Digital Type Company (or: DTC)
| German foundry in Hamburg, cofounded by Volker Schnebel and Fritz Renzo Heinze, where they produced about 450 fonts under the DTC label. MyFonts lists the main designer as Fritz Renzo Heinze. Typefaces include DTC Rough Variants, DTC Garamond Variants, DTC Funky Variants, DTC Frankli Gothic Variants, DTC Van Dijk Variants, DTC Brody Variants, DTC Plaza Variants, DTC Dirty Varinats. Each group has between 50 and 100 typefaces. The fonts are marketed by URW++. For example, URW sells DTC FunWorks1, a collection of 450 fonts in all formats. Catalog of DTC's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Digitale Heimat GmbH (was: Bean)
| German creator of the free slab serif typeface Efja (2010). Fontspace link. Another Fontspace link. Old Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Foundry in Germany. Requires Flash. They published the Positec family in 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German highway, railway and industrial typeface that is based on strict specifications. Linotype writes: The abbreviation "DIN" stands for Deutsches Institut für Normung (The German Institute for Industrial Standards). In 1936, this standards committee settled upon DIN 1451 as the primary lettering style for use in the areas of technology, traffic, administration, and business. The committee chose a sans serif design because of its legibility, and because its forms are also easy to reproduce. This faces design was not foreseen to be used in advertisements or other "artistically oriented purposes," and there were disagreements about its aesthetic qualities. Nevertheless, the DIN face has been set everywhere in Germany since its adoption, especially on signs for town names and traffic directions. Over the decades, it has managed to make its way into advertisements, too, perhaps because of its ease of recognition. The contemporary font version of DIN 1451 has been adopted and used by designers in other countries as well, solidifying its world-wide design reputation. Try it out today for signage, magazine layouts, book covers, or flyers. DIN 1451s industrial heritage makes it surprisingly functional in just about any conceivable application. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dead link. DIN type classification system. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the later specifications of the Deutsches Institut für Normung, from 1938. A typeface that follows it was made by Scangraphic, DIN 17 SB. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DIN is a set of typeface norms set by the Deutsches Institut für Normung (The German Institute for Industrial Standards). In 1919, Germany had its first (Grotesk) typeface for technical drawings that followed strict norms, the DIN 16. This was followed in 1927 by DIN 1451. The latter set of raster-based specifications was developed under the guidance of Siemens engineer Ludwig Goller in 1926-1927. The DIN 1451 would be further developed and broadened over the years, leading to DIN Engschrift and DIN Mittelschrift. Various modifications led to DIN 1451 (1936), DIN 17 (1938) and the "new" DIN 16 (1934). The DIN was heavily used until the 1980s in stencils, sold by companies such as Faber-Castell, Rotring, Staedtler, and Standardgraph. Articles on DIN:
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Dingfontbats
| Bavarian designer Susanne Fiedler created 35C, Affenschaukel (2000), Donnerwetter, Elefont, Franzi (2000), Hasi, Herr-Mueller-1, Herr-Mueller-2, I-just-call, Lieb-Mütterlein (alphadings with hearts), Lilians-Geburtstag, Mistwetter, Muelroy, Sssssum, Sassys-Teddys-1, Sassys-Teddys-2, Sassys-Teddys-3, Sassys-Sonne (alphadings), Schilderwald-alt, Schilderwald, Sonnenschein, Summer-in-the-city, WilliesPiano, Flyaway, Frogii, Gutes-Wetter,-schlechtes-Wetter, Hallo-du!, Roady-Roadrunner (alphadings), and For the Randolph Roadrunners (2000). Mostly letters with a theme added to them. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German designer of the free font Dirk Handfont (2008). It has German coverage, and is an extension of Handfont (2005) by Benji Park. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Zierfische (2011, a signage face): Zierfische is based on an exterior sign for a tropical fish store in East Berlin (GDR). The original sign was salvaged and now resides in the Buchstaben Museum in Berlin. The museum commissioned the sign's original designer, Manfred Gensicke, to complete an alphabet based on the sign, which was then digitized by Dirk Heider resulting in the finished font "Zierfische." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dirk Schaechter
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Dirk Schuster
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Dirk Uhlenbrock
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Dirk Uhlenbrock
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Dirk Uhlenbrock
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Designer of the shareware family CopticGregor (with Gregor Wurst, 1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stuttgart-based graphic designer (b. 1974). He studied Visual Communiaction at HFG Pforzheim. At Acme/FontShop he designed the multiple master font Generation (2002, huge squarish sans families called A, A2, A2A, Z, and ZaZ), which followed from his thesis in 2001, as well as AF Diwa (2002, large squarish sans). He became assistant at HFG Pforzheim and worked for Design Bureau Plan B in Stuttgart. He studied at Yale. Alternate URL. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dismantle Destroy
| Dismantle Destroy (and before that, Dismantle Design) is located in Clarksville, TN, and is run by Matthew Tyndall (b. 1984), who according to MyFonts lives in Frankfurt, Germany. Creator of Arrivals and Departures (2011, sans display face), Ask My Flashlight (2011, a bold and bouncy comic book style face), Quiet the Thief (2011, spurred face), Raila Skies (2011, a handprinted face done with Ralia Staggs), Hello Arson (2011, grunge), and Badcap (2011, grunge). Typefaces from 2012: Monster Monster. Typefaces from 2013: Badcab, I know a ghost, As You Wish (hand-printed), Raila Skies (hand-printed), Hoods and Capers (piano key face), Everglow, Brave Mountains (hand-drawn 3d poster face). Dafont link. The free faces at Dafont included the grunge face Devotion and Desire (2005), and Something Dangerous, and the handprinted face Meet The Submarine (2011). Many more were added to the free list in 2013. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
dmfstudio
| German studio of Robert Perendi, who designed the free experimental fonts andre-bold, andrefist, andrefistshdw, andre-gestaucht-bold, andre-t-light in 2007. Located in Leipzig. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
BF_Symbols (communication dings, 1995), Doepfer (LED font by Doepfer Musikelektronik, 1995), Inter (Gary L. Ratay's travel dingbat font, 1991). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dominic Brighton lives and studies communications design in Munich. He developed the font Interna during an internship at Melville Brand Design and published it in 2011 via Volcano. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Hersbruck, Germany, who created Gapee (2003, a sans face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany, in 1974. Designer of ALS Rundgang (2005, Art Lebedev Studio), a technical traffic signage face. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer who created the rounded monoline stencil typeface Stencil Allround (2012, Letterwerk). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Young designer at fontgrube who made BTENeoTokio. NeoTokio is now also at T26. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
doublestroke
| "doublestroke" is Olaf Kummer's blackboard bold math symbol font in metafont format. Olaf Kummer is at the University of Hamburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A German language page on the calculation of dpi for screens. Typically, today, they range from 72 dpi to 96 dpi and with larger monitors well over 100 dpi. To have text appear identical on all screens, we should adjust for that discrepancy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dr. Roland Unger's German language glossary. HTML help. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Site of the blackletter caps font Gothic-Titel-offiziell (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heidelberg, Germany-based creator of the bespoke geometric experimental face Indyanna (2011) and of Daily Work (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Driemeyer Design
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Creator of Halvan (2012) and Henny (2012, hand-printed). In 2013, Antje designed the remarkable rounded blueprint sans family Herrmann, which comes in ten styles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
German site concerned with typography. Has a Type Calendar for German events. Contains a list of the top 100 type designer of all time. Type classification. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German company which sells this CD through Amazon for 16 Euros: Alte Schriften (2004). This has calligraphic, medieval and blackletter fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German pixel font foundry, est. 2004. Fonts by
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German designer (b, 1979). He created the pixel face glasklinge-minimal (2007). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer (b. 1988) of Dafter Harder Better Stronger (2009, brush) and Weird Tucan-Noobs from Saint Seson (2009, ???). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dustin W (BKMH Lab) is located in Germany. Creator of the children's hand typefaces Dustin (2012) and Dustinhofont (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch Type Library (or: DTL Studio)
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From their corporate blurb: The Dutch Type Library was commissioned to produce the corporate typeface for the European Union. Further, DTL supplied the company letters to, among others, the New York Stock Exchange, Germany's Phoenix Television Broadcasting Company, Amnesty International USA, Emerson, The Diamond Trading Company, Taylor Nelson Sofres, Finland's most popular newspaper Helsingin Sonamat and banks and museums all over Europe. Besides fonts, the Dutch Type Library also produces sophisticated software for (OpenType) font production: DTL FontMaster, of which a free Light version is available. DTL has claimed all rights to the entire Lettergieterij Amsterdam typeface library obtained in some agreement with Tetterode. [This info may be wrong---I have no way to verify this.] Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Genzsch&Heyse, who made Lithograph (1903). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Editor of Ausgewählte Druckschriften in Alphabeten, which was published in Leipzig by the Verein Leipziger Buchdruckereibesitzer as an educational aid. The Bund für deutsche Schrift has scanned in a third of the pages and put it on one of their CDs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
e27
| Anna Mandoki and Stephan Mueller designed the free font ABCButton (2007, e27), in which strokes are just threads of a 9-holed button. "e27" is a design bureau in Berlin. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Edith Marold
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Foundry in the 19th century, based in Magdeburg. In 1904, they published Gravir-Anstalt und Messing-Schrift-Giesserei. Stempel für Hand- und Press-Vergoldung. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (b. Berlin, 1872, d. Offenbach, 1953) at Haas of Normale Grotesk (1942), Superba (1934) and Troubadour Lichte (1931, a script face). Troubadour survives digitally as Rechtman Script (Intecsas). Also, RMU (Ralph M. Unger) created Troubadour Pro (in Medium and Engraved styles) in 2010. Superba was digitally revived by Red Rooster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Eduard Ege made Basalt (1926, pre art deco), Ege-Schrift (1921, Genzsch&Heyse; Jaspert, Berry and Johnson mention 1927; Seemann says 1923). In 1922, he made the Schmuck (ornaments) for the Deutsche Druckschrift (Heinz König, 1888). A digitization and extension called DeutscherSchmuck was done by Manfred Klein and Petra Heidorn in 2004. Ege Schrift NF (2011, Nick Curtis) is a faithful revival of Ege-Schrift according to Curtis. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eduard Wilhelm Tieffenbach
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List of links to high-quality free fonts. In German. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eike König
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Richard Felsner (Mainz, Germany) has some info on the history of type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Berlin, whose brush and pen lettering on fashion posters is distinctive and powerful. Of particular beauty are her Zodiac sign illustrations (2011) and her fashion drawings (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ulm, Germany-based designer at Fontkitchen Type Foundry of the dingbat faces Damgram (2004), Urban Dedication (2004) and DesignersSkulls (2005, skull dingbats). These faces are free. He also designed Mandalay (2006), a font with Burmese influences. Dafomnt link. Designers Skulls. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Using iFontMaker, Elektrofarbe created Lux Berlin Font 1 (2011, outline handprinted face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Elena Albertoni
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In 2012, she published the Picassonian geometric experimental typeface MeM, done together with Jakob Runge, at 26plus. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Dortmund, Germany. Her design company is called Elefont. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Creator of these typefaces: Eskorte (2011, her graduation project), Eskorte Persian (2011), Klebo (2011, mechanical / octagonal), Eskorte Armenian (2011), and Paroli (2011, a bold rounded signage face), Biec (2012). In 2013, Eskorte was published by Rosetta Type. Eskorte supports Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and over ninety languages using the Latin script. Titus Nemeth was consulted for the Arabic portion. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Outfit based in Schelklingen, Germany. Makers of Big Bull (free), and Fontkit (commercial pixel fonts). Mac and PC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Berlin, Elfriede created the artsy illustrative typeface Drongo Typo (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jim Rimmer's RTF Isabelle (roman and italic), made in 2006, is based on two delicate serif faces by Friedlander. Elisabeth-Antiqua, Elisabeth-Kursiv (and swash letters) and Linotype Friedlaender borders were revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli. In 2005, Andreu Balius was commissioned to digitize the typeface now sold by Neufville Digital: Elizabeth ND (2007, 3 styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Münster-based German designer with Christian Büning of Rolli (2007), a font with pictograms for handicapped people. Another URL. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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German designer (born Elke Swillus) of the highly original museum display face FF Yokkmokk (1993) at FontFont. FontShop link. Elke Herrnberger is working at her studio TRANSformer in Düsseldorf as an independent graphic designer. She took her final exams in 1996 at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf. Since 1999 she has been head of the graphics and PR department at Petzinka Pink Architekten in Düsseldorf. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Heilbronn-based creator of a nice script alphabet in 1985. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Elmar Kniprath
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Author of Die Drucker der Wagnerschen Buchdruckerei in Ulm 1677-1804 Band II Vignetten Signete Initialen (Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz, 1984). A typical vignette. Vignette 142. Vignette depicting Silvanus. The Wagnerschen Buchdruckerei issued this Schreibschrift in 1765. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Additions in 2005 include the dingbat faces Beautilities EF Alpha, Ornamental Rules EF, Diavolo Rules EF, Squares EF (Alpha, Beta and Gamma), Topographicals EF Alpha, Typoflorals EF Alpha, Typographicals EF Alpha, Typomix EF Alpha, Typosigns EF Alpha, Typospecs EF Alpha and Beta (which have several fists), Typostuff EF Alpha, Diavolo EF, Schablone EF, Gigant EF, Maloni EF, OCRA EF, EF Unovis (a 16-weight family inspired by Quadrat). In the handprinted category, let us mention Filzerhand. Their blackletter collection includes some bastardas (Alte Schwabacher, Lucida Blackletter), some frakturs (Fraktur, Fette Fraktur EF, Justus Fraktur, NeueLutherscheFraktur, Walbaum-Fraktur), some rotundas (Weiss-Rundgotisch), and some texturas (Gotisch, Old English). Commissioned fonts include Castrol Sans (2007). Selected additional typefaces: Gillies Gothic EF (1935, after William S. Gillies), EF Medieva, Bank Sans Caps EF, Metropolitain (1985) (after a 1905 art nouveau face by Fonderie Berthier). Newest URL (2008). Listing at Fontworks. Future events schedule. New fonts. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Events schedule as compiled by Elsner&Flake. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the modular octagonal face Fourty Five Degree (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Klingspor of Vignetten (1902). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A peek into "Schriftgiesserei Emil Gursch Berlin: Gesamtprobe Schriften Ornamente Vignetten Messinglinien" (488 pages), one of Gursch's gorgeous specimen books. Emil Gursch was the main principal/owner of the Schriftgießerei Gursch in Berlin from 1866 until 1917, at which point the foundry was acquired by Otto Tech Berlin, an arm of H. Berthold AG. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German foundry based in Berlin, active from 1866 until 1917, when it was acquired by H. Berthold AG. Klingspor's file on Gursch. Typefaces published by them include:
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Designer of Hölzl-Mediaeval (+ Halbfette) (1912, D. Stempel AG; Seemann says 1916) and Hölzl-Mediaeval Kursiv (1916, D. Stempel AG). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer (b. 1910, Schmiedeberg-d. 1961, Hamburg). Wolfgang Hendlmeier summarized his contributions in 1985. Obituary. His typefaces include:
Other material: Logos done by him. Brief German biography. A famous poster of the Nikolaikirche in Hamburg. Picture. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer (b. Offenbach, 1898, d. Waldshut, 1983). He created the blackletter faces Tannenberg mager and halbfett (1933-1935, D. Stempel), Woellmer-Fraktur (1937, Wilhelm Woellmer). In several publications and web sites, Emil is called "Erich". Schnelle calls him Erich Mayer. Digitizations of his faces include DS Tannenberg (2001, Delbanco). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bio at Linotype, and at DdS. Footnote: Many textbooks incorrectly credit Weiss with Memphis (Stempel, 1929)---these include Mac McGrew, Rookledge, and Jaspert&Berry. View Emil Rudolf Weiss's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
See a version of Euclid in use by the city of Stockholm [called Stockholm Type], and read the (mostly negative) reactions of the typophiles. On Flickr, upon seeing that umlauts were replaced by macrons, Hrant Papazian writes: Pissed androgynous royals rule. Behance link. He currently works as a freelance designer in Berlin. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer born in Lerida, Spain (1908), who lived and worked mostly in Paris, where he had emigrated to during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). He died in 1987 in Noyon. All his fonts are available from Neufville. He was the founder of the movement that is known as Grafía Latina, which promoted the need to create a new system of typically Latin (as opposed to cold geometric nordic) typographic structures, graphics, alphabets and decorative ornaments. As art director of the Fonderie Typographique Française, he designed these fonts:
View Enric Crous-Vidal's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Erasmus Luther
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German type designer at Ludwig&Mayer who made the script typeface Achtung (1932), and the oddly slab-serifed face Stadion (1929, Schriftguss). This ugly bird was revived by Nick Curtis in 2011 as Elektromoto Narrow NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer (born in Quedlinburg, near Leipzig, 1957), who made the extensive DTL Fleischmann family (1992) at the Dutch Type Library. The font is named after Johann Michael Fleischmann (1707-1768), a German punchcutter who lived and died in Amsterdam. From 1983-1991 Erhard Kaiser worked at TypeDesign for Typoart, Dresden and since 1993 has been with DutchTypeLibrary/URW++. Still at DTL, he made the sans serif DTLProkyon family in 2002 around a curvy "4". This family gets raves from many typographers. Among possible imitations, we cite Dalton Maag's Ubuntu. For Typoart he designed Caslon Gotisch, Kleopatra, Quadro, Weiß-Antiqua and Bembo Antiqua. Since 1998 he teaches at the Muthesius Hochschule in Kiel. In 2005, he created DTL Antares, a strangely proportioned serif to accompany DTL Prokyon. Some weights published in 2008 are called Evonik Antares and some Evonik Prokyon. Klingspor link. Bio at ATypI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Augsburg-born printer (1447-1527). A master printer and type designer, he worked from ca. 1474 until ca. 1486 in Venice, where he printed many fine books. Ratdolt returned home and produced the first printer's type specimens sheet with a beautiful decorative initial and 15 different fonts to announce the occasion. He had the first type specimens sheet in the world, showing rotunda, roman and Greek typefaces in various sizes (date: 1486). Ratdolt specialized in missals, liturgical works, calendars, astronomical, astrological, and mathematical subjects, and often included masterful diagrams to illustrate the text. In 1482, he printed Euclid's Elements of Geometry, which became William Morris's reference source for his "while-wine" decorative borders. Erhard Ratdolt died in 1527 or 1528. See DS Ratdolt-Rotunda (Delbanco), a digital version based on a 1989 design by Wolfgang Hendlmeier in 1989. Type sample. Bio by Nicholas Fabian. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Eric Schmitt
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Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erik Spiekermann
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Erik Spiekermann
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In October 2003, he received the third Gerrit Noordzij Prize, which is given every other year to a designer who has played an important role in the field of type design and typography. It is an initiative of the postgraduate course in Type&Media at the Hague Royal Academy of Art with the Meermanno Museum (The Hague). His essay on information design. Biography. Bio at Linotype. Laudatio by John Walters of Eye Magazine. Blog. Presentation at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Presentation at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. Interviewed in 2006 by Rob Forbes. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. He made the following typefaces and type families:
Picture of Eric Spiekermann shot by Chris Lozos at Typo SF in 2012. View Erik Spiekermann's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Berlin. At Behance, one can see her trendy bold face Carbon (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of Bentele Unziale (ARTypes did a digital revival in 2007), which can be seen in Hoffmann's Schriftatlas (1952). Author of Schrift geschrieben, gezeichnet und angewandt. Ein Lehrbuch für Schriftenmaler, Graphiker und sonstige schriftgestaltende Berufe. (1952, Karl Gröner Verlag, Ulm-Söflingen). Book cover. Other typefaces: Frankengold, Wechselstrich Handschrift. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of Tango Italic (1922), which was digitally revived by Nick Curtis as Rhumba Script NF. This is a prototypical silent movie font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type enthusiast and genealogist in Bad Sassendorf, Germany, who made some Fraktur revivals such as Gutenberg-Bibelschrift, Kirchengotisch, Koberger, Lautenbach-Fraktur, Liebing-Fraktur, and Schönsperger. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At his own Ernst Engel Privatpresse (est. 1921; it would later be called Ernst Engel Presse Walter Stähle), he designed Mörike Fraktur (1922) with the punchcutter Rudolf Schiffner. Somehow, this typeface is also associated with Klingspor. In 1927, he created an art deco face which was revived in 2008 by Nick Curtis as Engel Stabenschrift NF. He made three Unziale that were all unicase ("Einbuchstabenschrift"), in 1927, 1930/31, and 1935, respectively. In 1939, he made a Schwabacher and finished Deutsche Schrift. Picture. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Ernst Tremel s based in Muenster, Germany. He designed a Devanagari font called ShiDeva that includes a "volt" table and many ligatures. His pages also cover Tamil, and one can download the ETTamilNew font. He also has a Kurdish font, as well as maps about the Kurds and about Indian languages. About the Kurdish font, he writes: Kurdish AllAlphabets contains 694 glyphs and 529 standard kern pairs: Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic script. There are OpenType tables for Arabic and embedded bitmaps included. He joined the Open Font Library movement. He offers Ahuramazda there, which is an alphabet for the Avestan language: Avestan was an Iranian language in which the earliest Zoroastrian hymns were orally transmitted since 1500 BCE. Due to lingusitic change, fluency in Avestan as spoken a thousand years earlier was deteorating, and hence the need to write the language became increasingly apparent. By the 3rd century CE an alphabet was created to write down the ancient Avestan language. OFL link. Alternate URL. And another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontshop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based foundry acquired in 1926 by D. Stempel AG (50%) and H. Berthold AG (50%). Later it spun off from Stempel. In English: First Hungarian Type Foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer wh worked for Rudolf Hell. Creator of the rather Courier-like monospace font Monanti EF Regular in 1989. Dalcora HE is a black italic display face made in 1989 at Hell. The Angro EF family is a straightforward sans-serif family. Ifinally, he also made Monti and Monti Semi Bol;d in 1989 for R. Hell. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Sylvie Peladeau's company in Ottawa creates custom fonts, primarily logo, handwriting and signature fonts for corporations to integrate with mail merge campaigns, office automation, fax software, and web pages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2012, she created the ultra-fat rounded typeface Smoothie. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dr. Herbert E. Brekle from the Universität Regensburgexplains the history of the German ligature symbol ß. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the ornamental caps Verzierte Anfangsbuchstaben für Liturgisch (1988), to accomapny Otto Hupp's Liturgisch (1906). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer who created this text family in 1945. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eugen Philippi (b. 1978) is a German digital painter, aka Elspiko and as Doodle Lee Doo. He created Black Blocckks (2008), ConeOfSilence (2008, grunge), atthewindowPRO (2008, simple monowidth sans), Circleized (2008), Stencil Writer (2008) and Murder of Mayday (2008, octagonal, 4 styles). Stencil Writer is based on a workshop with Underware in which the plane is partitioned into 20 segments, and each character consists of a subset of these segments (without translating or turning any). This principle is a bit like that of a pixel font with non-square shapes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Euler-VM
| Math font package managed by Walter Schmidt. The well-known Euler math fonts (designed by H. Zapf) are suitable for math typesetting in conjunction with a variety of text fonts which do not provide math character sets of their own. Euler-VM is a set of _virtual_ math fonts based on Euler and CM. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
European Concrete family
| ECC: metafont family developed by Walter Schmidt from Erlangen. European Concrete is an implementation of Donald Knuth's Concrete fonts, providing T1 text fonts and TS1 text companion fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Book artist and calligrapher, b. 1900, Göttingen, d. 1969 Freiburg. She studied calligraphy with F.H.E. Schneidler at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ewald Strassmann
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German designer of the organic font Cabal (2007). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eyesaw (was: Fontomas.com, or Signalgrau)
| Dirk Uhlenbrock's (b. Essen, 1964) typographic experiments are called Signalgrau, or Fontomas.com, or Eyesaw. Old URL. Another old URL. Alternate URL. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. The fonts: Buddies (funny dingbat font), Scrabble (1999), Pizzo (pixel font, 2000), Accient (2000), EURASIAOblique, Freak (1998), SpaceAge, Fivejive (2000), Missu (2001), T-Series (a family by Stephen Payne (UK, 2000) for Territory), XXX (1998, sexy silhouettes), Y2k (2000), Basm (family by Miguel Basm Visser, 2000), Corner-bi and Corner-mono (both by Ole Fischer for Fischer Jr Design), Persona, Creatures (dingbats by Dirk Uhlenbrock, 1998), Thaipe, Thaiga, (squaregrid (Jay Marley, 2001), Bath (Heiko Hoos, 2001), Honey (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Pinx (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Tuna Salad (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Evo (2002), EvoThin (2002), Gen3000 (2002), Gen3000Thin (2002), HanneloreOutline (2001), Hannelore (2001), MassBlack (2002), MassOutline (2002), Mass (2002), MassStriped (2002), MassThin (2002), Microbe (2002), PellegriniItalic (2002), Pellegrini (2002), PileOutline (2002), Pile (2002), Rickshaw (2002, Indic letter simulation), Swisz (2002), SwiszThin (2002), TurbonItalic (2002), Turbon (2002), Apollo9, Apollo9Italic, Bite, Blob, BlobThin, Bubble, BubbleWild, Crack, Creatures, Dennis, Dioptrin, Dna, Electrance, Frakt, Launchpad, ORAV, Paul5, Paul6, PlakatOne, PlakatTwo, Push, Rubbermaid, RubbermaidSingle, Ticker, Tubeone, Tubetwo, Tvdinner, TvdinnerFull, Ufo, UfoItalic, Yodle. At Fountain, he designed Robotron and Super and Girl (2003, a Bauhaus experiment). The Fontomas CD published in 2005 (40 dollars for 75 fonts) is reviewed by Yves Peters. On it, we find older fonts as well as newer ones by Dirk himself: Ove, Gen1000 (DNA style), Hannelore, Mass, Micro B, Pellegrini (script), Pile, Swisz, Turbon, Rickshow (Indic simulation). Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Printer and publisher in Leipzig, Germany. In 1836, it acquired Walbaum's type foundry. Friedrich Ballhorn worked there at some point. Friedrich Schoch published his Schochische Cursiv there in 1844. Cover page of their specimen book on Walbaum (Antiqua, Kursiv and Fraktur). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the display faces Eidechse Lg-Nr. 18675 (1921) and Salamander Lg-Nr. 18682 (1921) at J.G. Shelter&Giesecke. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Genzsch&Heyse, who made Glaß Antiqua (1912). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer of the following faces at D. Stempel: Frankfurt (1906, blackletter), Diana (1909), Propaganda (1901), Graziella (+ Fette) (1905), Korso (1913). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
F25 Digital Typeface Design
| Volker Busse (F25 Digital Typeface Design) is a graphic designer at Grafikkontor in Berlin. Designer of the old typewriter simulation fonts F25 Executive (2008), F25 BlackletterTypewriter (2006), Typewriter Condensed (2007), Telegraphem (2004), Cella (2007) and Daisy Wheel (2007). He also made Am Sans (2005), which he derived from a 1960s sample of Intertype Vogue (itself a geometric and clean-lined sans, ca. 1930), and F25 Bank Printer (a MICR family, 2005). At FontStruct, he made F25 Borderfont (2009, a multiline family including styles called Alita and Kapata), F25 Fontstruction 157 (2009, experimental), and Hidden Text 01 (2009). Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German type designer (b. Essen) of the display / grunge faces FFAssuri (1994), FF Dirty Fax (1995), FF Franklinstein, FF Ekttor (1995). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Face 2 Face (or: F2F)
| Polish designer Alexander Branczyk, b. 1959, (Frankfurt, Germany) is the main typographer at F2F (Face 2 Face), which is based in Berlin and Frankfurt. Other participants include Stefan Hausen, Alessio Leonardi, Torsti Maier-Bautor, Thomas Nagel, Haike Dehl and Sybille Schlaich. F2F specializes in what it calls anarchistic typography. Branczyk made F2F CzykagoTrans (1995) and a few other experimental fonts, as well as Bellczyk, CZYKago-Cameo, CZYKago-Quer, OCR-Alexczyk, OCR-Bczyk, SubberlogoMini, TheczykM, MadzineScript, BurnoutChaos, Frontpage, MonakoStoned, Entebbe, OCRFBeta and OCRHeike. Other designers: Thomas Nagel (ScreenScream, Shakkarakk, ElDeeCons, Madame Butterfly, Pixmix, Shpeetz, TyrellCorp), Heike Nehl (LoveGrid, Starter Kid, Lego Stoned, Twins), Alessio Leonardi (PrototipaMultipla, TagliatelleSugo, Mekanik Amente, Metamorfosi, provinciali, AlRetto, F2F TechLand, F2FAlLineato, F2FMekkasoTomanik, F2FSimbolico (1992, dingbats), Poison Flowers (1992)), Stefan Hauser (F2FBoneR, Haakonsen), Sybille Schlaich (Styletti Medium). Face2Face groups the designers of Moniteurs and xplicit ffm. Bitstream link. Alternate URL. In 2003, these designs by Alexander Branczyk appeared in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection: F2FBurnoutChaos LT Std, F2FCzykago LT Std Light, F2FCzykago LT Std Semiserif, F2FCzykago LT Std Trans, F2FEntebbe LT Std, F2FFrontpageFour LT Std, F2FMadZine LT Std Dirt, F2FMadZine LT Std Fear, F2FMadZine LT Std Script, F2FMadZine LT Std Wip (1992), F2FMonakoStoned LT Std, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Regular, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Shake, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Bold, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Regular, F2FTechLand LT Std. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
At the Fachbereich Gestaltung (Design), Module Kommunikationsdesign, of Fachhochschule Darmstadt, one can take type design courses from people like Dan Reynolds. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the Fachhochschule Hannover, Andreas Maxbauer (a German type specialist, b. 1949) is docent of Corporate Design and Typography. Click on Produkte. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the Fachbereich Design, Module Kommunikationsdesign, of Fachhochschule Potsdam near Berlin, Lucas de Groot teaches type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fraktur.de gives information on books on Fraktur writing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Faktor-i (or: Designsalon)
| Free fonts for Mac and PC designed by Dirk Schaechter at Faktor-I (or: Designsalon) in Bonn. The fonts: CouchBoy (2001), Regata (2001, pixel font), Smoke (2001, upright script), Spaceman (2001), Xscale (2001, pixel font). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Falko Grentrup
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Fatfonts
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Numerals in vector fonts developed by the team have a thickness that is proportional to their value. Numerals can also be nested. The (free) fonts were converted to opentype by Richard Wheeler (a PhD student at The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology of Oxford). Uta Hinrichs designed Gracilia, Cubica, and Rotunda. She codesigned Miguta with Miguel Nacenta. Finally, Richard Wheeler himself created the LED face 7Segments. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fatype
| Foundry, est. in 2012 by Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar in Berlin, and in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Fatype has designed typefaces for GQ France (such as GQ Baton), Derzeit (2012, Fashion Week Berlin Daily: a typeface by Yassin Baggar and Manuel Schibli), Google and Journal B. Their typefaces include U8 (2010, Anton Koovit), Aleksei (Anton Koovit) and Adam BP (2008, Anton Koovit). U8 started out as a Berlin subway system signage project based on found lettering. Some glyphs had to designed from scratch. The result is an early modernist typeface with elements of DIN and Bauhaus. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
fc fonts for African languages
| Jörg Knappen's fc fonts for African languages. In metafont. The following languages are supported: Akan, Bamileke, Basa (Kru), Bemba, Ciokwe, Dinka, Dholuo (Luo), Efik, Ewe-Fon, Fulani (Fulful), G\~a, Gbaya, Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri, Kikuyu, Kikongo, Kpelle, Krio, Luba, Mandekan (Bambara), Mende, More, Ngala, Nyanja, Oromo, Rundi, Kinya Rwanda, Sango, Serer, Shona, Somali, Songhai, Sotho (two different writing systems), Suaheli, Tiv, Yao, Yoruba, Xhosa and Zulu. Plus Maltese and Sami. Jörg Knappen works at the University of Mainz in Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FDI Fonts
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The first fonts include Logotypia Pro (2004) and Graublau Sans Pro (by Georg Seifert). In 2008, he added Sebastian Nagel's Iwan Reschniev, a Bauhaus style family of severe sans styles. In 2010, Sebastain Nagel's medieval map face FDI Tierra Nueva followed. In 2012, Ralf Herrmann and Sebastian Nagel codesigned the Wayfinding Sans Pro family. This useful typeface was published at FDI. Home page. His web log. Typedia link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FDI (was: Schriftgestaltung)
| Georg Seifert (Schriftgestaltung) is a Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany-based designer. Photograph. He was a student at the Bauhaus University Weimar and runs Schriftgestaltung.de (Leipzig; now FDI or fonts dot info in Jena) with Ralf Hermann. Schriftgestaltung's fonts include Oilive Green Mono and Rosa Stencil. All others are FDI fonts:
At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he introduced his (free) font editor Glyphs to the world. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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German designer of FF Murphy, a grungy family. Based in Duisburg. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Berlin who designed an experimental typeface in 2011. In 2012, he created Hülpman (an informal typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Felix Beckheuer
| Felix Beckheuer set up his own typefoundry in Germany in 2013. His typefaces include the geometric headline typeface Pavo (2013), which was inspired by Lubalin's Avant Garde. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Felix Beckheuer
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Felix Bonge (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1982) has been studying communications design at the Design Department of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) since 2005 under Jovica Veljovic. In 2012, he published Levato, a 5-style antiqua with a calligraphic influence. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Felix Braden
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German creator of the free face Xecret (2010, OFL), which contains just one glyph, repeated. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer (b. 1988) who made Felix Hand (2009) and Across The Stars (2009, hairline sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He created the rounded techno typeface Fachwerk (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Felix Steffen is a German designer who moved in 1991 from Munchen to Warsaw, fascinated by the exotic life and lettering of post-communist Poland. He lives and works in Poland. He designed the Blanke family for use in Polish telephone directories. Felix claims that he got his ideas for that font from some writings in the train station of Kattowitz, from which he first developed the font Krakowa. He is currently working on the digitization/revival of Poltawskiego, a classic Polish text face, and the first typically Polish face, designed in the late 1940s by Polish type designer Adam Jerzy Poltawski (1881-1952). Felix's company in Warsaw is OM-Grafika. Someone reported to me that Felix Steffen is now Felix Tymcik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer (b. 1977m, Stuttgart) who studied visual communication at the HfG in Pforzheim. He set up Gestaltung Felix Stumpf in Stuttgart in 2008. Creator of Rauschen (2009, Volcano Type), a dot matrix family. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator of Schumachersche Fraktur (ca. 1860, D. Stempel AG). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ferdinand Theinhardt
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Ferdinand Theinhardt Schriftgiesserei Berlin
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Around 1880, he published four weights of a Royal Grotesk (in 4 styles) for the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin (see, e.g., here or here; here is a sample of his 1895 Breite Grotesk). Akzidenz Grotesk is often given the 1898 date. In 1908, H. Berthold AG took over the Theinhardtsche Giesserei. In 1918, H. Berthold sold that Royal Grotesk as Akzidenz Grotesk. Theinhardt was also known as a specialist in cutting hieroglyphs. He published Liste der hieroglyphischen typen aus der schriftgiesserei (Berlin, Buchdrückerei der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften (G. Vogt), 1875). Royal Grotesk was digitally released by Berthold Types (an American company with no legal connection with the original H. Berthold) in 2009. Typedia link from which I quote: Akzidenz (sic) Grotesk was released by Berthold in Berlin in 1898, according to their own literature. It was obviously based on faces already offered by other foundries, some of which were later taken over by Berthold. One of the contemporaries of AG was Royal Grotesk from Theinhardt. In Berthold's specimen booklet no. 429, which was most likely released in 1954, Akzidenz Grotesk Mager (light) was still referred to as Royal Grotesk, in brackets. Berthold acquired a typeface in 1908, (when they bought Ferd.Theinhardt) which they released as Akzidenz Grotesk Halbfett (medium). They kept adding weights, some of them from other faces, acquired from other foundries. Every foundry had a version of that type of face, more often than not available in a few sizes only. The original series remained quite divers, individual weights showing not much resemblance but in name. It was mainly a marketing and naming success. That only changed when they cut Series 57, and then Series 58, named for the years of release. These had some sizes (but not all) recut under the direction of Günter Gerhard Lange, who was their (freelance) artistic director at the time. GG Lange always claimed that Berthold had taken some AG weights and sizes from Popplbaum in Vienna, and that is supposed to account for the release date of 1896 or 1898. Popplbaum was not bought by Berthold until 1926. Berthold did take different fonts from all the foundries they bought (and obviously also made deal without buying a foundry) and rename them until they got a family together which still showed the original influences, sometimes even from size to size. The deals between foundries (by 1924 Berthold had bought 17 foundries, in Prague, Riga, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Moscow and St. Petersburg) have never been fully researched, and neither has the complete history of Akzidenz Grotesk been written yet. Digitizations include AltDeutsch by Gerhard Helzel. The Theinhardt family (2010, Francois Rappo, Optimo) is named after Theinhardt. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FF DIN
| The story of Albert-Jan Pool's information design type family FF DIN, told by FontShop: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German designers of Ruby & Sapphire (2005, pixel face). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Fixedsys
| Fixedsys is one of the early computer screen fonts, originally developed by Travis Owens. He stopped development and turned the font over to the community. Markus Gebhard created a truetype version and was in charge of the font until version 4. From vertsion 5 on, Lars Naber is in charge. Free downloads of FixedDisplayTTF and FixedsysTTF. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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His free fonts at Floodfonts include Polaris (2011), Floodicons (2003), Hydrophilia (2003. He writes: Hydrophilia family was created in 2003 by Felix Braden as a further development of Moby and comes with two fonts: The gothic typeface (liquid) is a revised version of the pixel font (iced). Hydrophilia liquid got a lot of letterforms with a diagonal axis, which reminded me of the technical fonts used on early liquid crystal displays.), Squid (2002, free), SquidCaps (2002), Ninetwist (2002), Catherine (2002), Moby (2002, a Bauhaus style corporate and headline font for the Cologne based design bureau Glashaus), Babelfish (2002), Blendfontsexperiment (2001), Incpot (1997), Hammerhead (2001), HammerheadBlack (2001), HammerheadBold (2001), HammerheadMedium (2001), Multikultur (1997, Fraktur font), MultikulturExtraBold (2001), Orchidee (2001), Sadness (2001), Wuestling (1997). Peter Hoffmann designed Alita (2001) and Lacuna (2001). Commercial fonts at Fountain: Grimoire, Sadness (2001). In 2004, he cofounded Timetwist with Pia Kolle, where you can download Rabbits (2004, Kolle), Pirates Stoertebecker (2004, Braden at Floodfonts, a ransom note face), Pirates Drake (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBlackbeard (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBonney (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), Bigfish (2009, a Western billboard face). At Ductype, Braden published Timetwisteight (2005, a pixel face). At URW++, he published the Supernormale family (part techno, part pixel) in 2006. At Volcano, he made the rounded display face Bikini (2010). At Fountain, he published the geometric monoline sans face Capri Pro (2011, related to both Futura and Avant Garde). The Orchidee project started in 1999 led to a fantastic free font. Felix: Orchidee was created as a part of the business stationary of the restaurant Orchidee located in the luxory hotel Quellenhof in Aachen, Germany. After the founding of the restaurant the hotel manager realized that there earlier was a bordello in the city with the same name, so he wanted to change the name. At the time when our agency had to presentate the logotype the name was not appointed so I created the font. The restaurant was specialized on crosscultural european-asian cuisine. Because of that I wanted to mix up some elements of traditional asian typography with european typography. The letters are designed in freehand by the repetition of just a few basic elements. To create the rough outline I used xerox-copier because I wanted to have some chaotic elements to give the font a handmade touch. Other free fonts: Coraline (2012), Sonar Script (2013), Rollmops (2013). At FontShop, he published FF Scuba (2012), as an offline companion to Verdana. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontsquirrel link. Personal page. Another Behance link. Fountain Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
German graphic and type designer, b. 1982, Mainz. From 2007-2009, she studied at FH Mainz. At Volcano she created Shine (a multiline connected retro face, a cross between a neon face and the Chevrolet logo). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence (or: Bombastudio)
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In 2012, she published Lucrezia, an overzealous decorative caps typeface, and Henry (a free retro script all caps family named after Henry Ford). Cargo Collective page with interesting posters such as Archer (2011) and Einstein. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Born in 1971, he studied visual communication at HFG Pforzheim until 1998 and graduated from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe in 2002. He lives and works in Karlsruhe, where he designed these fonts in 2008-2009 for Volcano Type: Fone-1, Fone-2, Fone-3 (all grunge faces), Tacora (degraded typewriter face), PT Sewed (stitching font), Republic, Tacora (display faces), Fette Pixel (pixel face). MyFonts link. Since 2006 is with MAGMA Brand Design in Karlsruhe, and he is art director of Slanted.de. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Florian Hardwig
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Florian Hardwig is a graphic designer based in Berlin, Germany, where he runs a studio together with Malte Kaune. Since 2007, he has been teaching Typography at the Brunswick School of Art. Florian can frequently be found on Typophile, where he is one of the moderators of the Type ID Board. He spoke at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. His "manuscribe" is a research project on international school scripts and the dialects of handwriting. His slides on this project. Flickr page. Comparison of Bauer Bodoni and Linotype Didot. A piece on school scripts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Hamburg, who created a traditional early 20-th century German grotesk called Mars Grotesk (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florian Klauer
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Designer born in Duesseldorf, Germany, but living in Los Angeles. Creator of the free fonts King Georg (2012, blackletter), Cinerama (2012), Stadium1946 (2012), Stadium1956 (2012), SoCal (2012, a graffiti face), Tight Writer (2012, old typewriter font). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He made the contemporary informal typeface Jula (2012). Asgaard was created during the one-week typeface design workshop tipoRenesansa in Trenta, Slovenia (February 2012). It is specially designed for street signage. Runge writes: To achieve great legibility the design paid much attention to features such as: large x-height, open counters, tiny serifs, slightly rounded corners, square terminals as well as inktraps. Research leading to asgaard is described in Runge's paper The echo of architecture in Danish type design of the 20. century. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florian Schick
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Florian spent the year 2008 in Xi'an, China, where he studied the Chinese language, letterforms and calligraphy. He has been working at Linotype since 2010 as a font engineer, mostly dealing with web fonts. Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Zhou Youguang, the father of Pinyin. The abstract of that talk: Hanyu Pinyin is not just a system to romanize Chinese characters. It is a phonetic transcription of Putonghua, the so called Standard Chinese, and now serves as the most frequently used input method for Chinese characters on computers and mobile devices. Not only has it helped to increase literacy in the People's Republic of China since its introduction in 1958, it is also the reason why every child in China knows the Latin alphabet and it helps foreigners all over the world to pronounce Chinese words and learn the Chinese language. This presentation talks about the life and work of linguist Zhou Yougang, who turned 106 this year [2012], and his most famous creation, Hanyu Pinyin. How does the Pinyin system work? What are its advantages over other transcription methods? And why has it never replaced Chinese characters? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florian Zietz
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Font Boutique (was: Typografski Font Boutique)
| The Font Boutique is a commercial foundry started in 2002 by Heinrich Lischka from Köthen, Germany, who was born in 1968 in Groß Strehliz, Poland. An autodidact and freelancer, he taught some courses in 2005 at FH Magdeburg-Stendal. Lischka designed these fonts:
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Monospaced fonts displayed and explained (in German). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Environment
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Interesting way of displaying and categorizing fonts, with over 1500 font images. By Merz Akademie's Patrick Schell and Harald Scholz, in Hamburg and Berlin, respectively. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Jessen's German language pages on the history of type, from its start in 1440, via Linotype (1886), Photocomposition (1949), bitmaps (1965) to vector formats (1975). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontasy (was: Norbomat Fonts)
| Fontasy.de (German) and Fontasy.org (English are exemplary free font archives brought by Tilman Schalmey from München. Subpage with useful links. Blog. List of designers. Newest additions. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jürgen Siebert's great font blog (in German). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FAT FontBook is a tiny MacOS font utility. FontBook helps you to keep track of your installed fonts, especially symbol or dingbats fonts. FontBook lets you print reference cards for your most-used fonts. Originally free, by Matthias Kahlert. Lemke Software is continuing its development here (10USD for version 3.4). Reports from my friends are positive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontcredit
| Siegfried Rückel (Fontcredit) is the FontFont designer of FF Alega and FF Alega Serif, a technical-look text family (2002), which is wonderfully showcased at his site and discussed by Jon Coltz. Fontcredit was founded by Siegfried Rückel who lives in Berlin and runs the design agency rQuadrat together with Georg(ij) Rijinachvili. He studied design at the University of Applied Sience in Potsdam under Luc(as) de Groot and Lex Drewinski. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontExpert
| Automatic font identification program by The Quick Brown Fox GmbH foundry run by Willi Welsch out of Koln, Germany. Costs 250DM. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontExpert 2.0 (alternate site)
| Automatic font identification program by The Quick Brown Fox GmbH foundry run by Willi Welsch out of Koln, Germany. Costs 250DM. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontFabrik
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Lucas de Groot's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontfarm
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Fonts designed at Fontfarm in 2005-2006 by Kai F. Oetzbach and Natascha Dell: Agendatype (+Swash), Goffik-Outline, Goffik-Shadow, KofiPure (in Sans, Serif and SemisKursiv), NakoticaBarrow (techno), Nafi (2005, upright connected script and some dingbats), Caput (2008, a sans family), Jenny (a six-style family that grew out of Jenson Antiqua into a more angular carapace), Parker-Barrow (a sans+slab experiment). Typefaces by the same pair in 2011: Gedau Gothic (grotesque family), Ergilo (angular serif family). Newtype is a 36-style superfamily for headlines, information design and short passages. |
Berlin-based FontShop International, started by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann, and Neville Brody in 1989/1990, offers its own line of digital fonts under the FontFont label. The FontFont library contains around 2,000 original fonts. Its designers include Just van Rossum, Erik van Blokland, David Berlow, Max Kisman, Tobias Frere-Jones, Fred Smeijers, Martin Majoor, and many others. FontShop has offices in San Francisco as well. They are focusing on web fonts today. Their initial web font package included DingbestWeb, DroidsWeb, InfoWeb-Bold, InfoWeb-Italic, InfoWeb-Normal, KosmikWeb, MarketWeb, PixelsDream (by Zuzanna Licko), SheriffWeb-Bold, SheriffWeb-Italian, SheriffWeb-Roman, TrademarkerWeb, TypestarWeb-Black, TypestarWeb-Normal. The free fonts page has InterOffice (two dingbat fonts made in 2001 by Andreas Jung, Markus Hanzer, David Berlow, Fedor Hüneke, Erik van Blokland, Robert Snider, chester, Hans Reichel, Nicole Kapitza, Christoph Kalscheuer, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Paul Neville, Barbara Klunder, György Szönyei, Matthias Thiesen, Norbert Reiners, Joancarles Casasín, Gert Wiescher, Fabrizio Schiavi, Mindaugas Strockis, Theo Nonnen, Alan Greene, Donald Beekman, Martin Wunderlich, Critzler, Stefan Kisters, Dung van Meerbeeck, Ole Søndergaard, Nick Shinn, and Mårten Thavenius), FF Dingbest (by Johannes Erler and Olaf Stein), FF Xcreen, and many Euro symbols to go with their standard fonts. Catalog of FontFont's typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Young German designers showcase their experimental (Mac) fonts. Included are fonts by Max Fiedler, Matthias Rosenkranz, Markus Volquarts, Jacques Pense, Doris Fürst, Alexander Gialouris, Olaf Claussen, Karsten Steens, Peter Pannes, Anna Gross, Marcel Staudt, Hanno Bennert, Josefin Kaiser, Stefanie Fortmann, Axel Peemöller, Katja Wolf, Anke Klasen, Nicole Simon. Direct downloads. Link died. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontgrube AH
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Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontkingz
| Fontkingz is a small commercial foundry in Hamburg started in 2002 by Carlo Krueger (b. 1970). Pixel 8 is the first font family. Krueger previously designed type at Apply Design, and at Elsner&Flake, where he made EF Thordis Sans and EF Thordis Mono (1997), both with Günther Flake. See also here. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontkitchen Type Foundry
| Fontkitchen Type Foundry is a German commercial type foundry (est. 2002, located in Heidenheim) with four designers: Daniel Amann, Timo Brauchle, Marc Engenhart and Nico Hensel. Some fonts are free. More than half of their production is in the pixel/flashfont category. Their designs:
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At this German site, one can download a number of handwriting or handprinted fonts made in 2009: Sahara, ohm8, Tacker, Lisa Kleinkind (for children), Kajan, Schmuddel, Right Round. Creator of Ruban (rough painted face), and Aircloud (rough brush face). Dafont link. The designer is a guy called Jens H. Anoter URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font-O-Rama
| Born in 1974, Nina David lives in Kaarst, Germany. She designed Uni F (a unicase face, 1997, which received the "Certificate of Excellence" from the Type Directors Club in (TDC) in 1998) at Fountain. She lives in Duesseldorf, Germany. In 2002, she set up Font-O-Rama, where we can find her free and commercial creations: Casi (2000), DSC (2000, pixel face), Eiei (2001, eggs font for Easter), KomodoreDestroy (2000), KomodoreNormal (2000, horizontally-striped typeface), Pagra (2001), UniFIce (2001), UniFRama (2002), UniFXmas (2000). Commercial fonts include Liebling (2005, a serif to go with Mein Schatz), Mein Schatz (2003, sans), Geomee (2003, a squarish geometric face), Longing (liquid face with ornaments added), Uni F, Herzchen (2006), Longing (2005), and Sweet Home (2005, stitching face). There is also a general introduction to typography. Home page. Alternate URL. Dafont link. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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The Fontplore application was developed by Christian Hertlein and Marcus Paeschke in summer 2009 under the supervision of Till Nagel and Professor Boris Müller at the Fachhochschule Potsdam. Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases.Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontschmiede
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Free fonts by Frank Baranowski: Elemenz, Destroya, Alphabutts. Commercial fonts: Clayborn, Concrete, Dodgy, Funtype, Karoline, Line44, Monumental, MrsBeasley+ (psychedelic), Musical, NewTelegraph (+Arrows), Patchwork, Silverblade, Sputnik (oriental simulation face), Superia, Tambourine, Und4. All faces by Frank Baranowski, except Line44 and Und4. MyFonts link. Some of Baranowski' fonts are released under the label Transkrypt. In 2011, he published New Telegraph Arrows at Fontschmiede. In 2012, he created Journal 74, a retro font family. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontShop Germany offers a handwriting font service for a fee. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Established in 1989 in Berlin by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann and Neville Brody. Also offices in San Francisco, Australia, Austria and Norway. It has a formidable collection of fonts, better known as the FontFont collection. It is a major source of new type, and organizes a Conference in Berlin each year, called TYPO Berlin. Fontshop team. Designers. Subpages: FontFeed (font news), FontStruct (free modular fontre), FontBook, Font education. Catalog of FontFont's typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontwerk.com
| Ivo Gabrowitsch's type blog (in German). Ivo is Marketing Director at FontShop International and lives in Berlin. He was born in Wippra. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German collaborative type project hosted by WYSIWYG Software Design GmbH. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For Home or Office Use
| "For Home or Office Use" is a strange name for a foundry, but that is exactly what it is. The fonts are made by Achim Reichert (Paris) and Wolfgang Breuer (Berlin). Their commercial Mac type 1 fonts include thhe experimental Try family (2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klingspor,- eo, 161Try-Bitter,- eo, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette), Abnehmen (free), A-Teile, A-Teile Neue, 0031aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0031eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, Almatadema-Eins, -Fier, -Vier, 0031aConvertToPath-Italic, 0031bConvertToPath-Italic, 0062aConvertToPath-Italic, 0062bConvertToPath-Italic, 0125aConvertToPath-Italic, 0125bConvertToPath-Italic, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Birthday-Regular, Birthday-Bold, 0034Paper, 0034Paper-Italic, 0034Paper-Oblique, 0057Paper, 0057Paper-Italic, 0057Paper-Oblique, 0075aPaper, 0075aPaper-Italic, 0075bPaper, 0075cPaper, 0075dPaper-Italic, Free 0034-0075dPaper Font, Paper, 0031aPlotter, 0031bPlotter, 0031aPlotter-Bandzug, 0031bPlotter-Bandzug, 0031aPlotter-Twenty, 0031bPlotter-Twenty, 0062aPlotter, 0062bPlotter, 0062aPlotter-Twenty, 0062bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter, 0125bPlotter, 0125aPlotter-Twenty, 0125bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter-Breitband, 05aPlotter, F.T./Brown, F.T. Bold, la bonne heure, -bold, Lini Eins, Lini Drei - eo, Lini-Vier - eo, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi. The fonts by Breuer in this list include the A-Teile family, the Birthday family, and the Plotter family. There is a free type software program called Abnehmen, as well as a number of experimental stroke-based fonts whose stroke thickness can be adjusted with Adobe InDesign, for example. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A group of German type experts run their own password-protected forum/blog. They also organize an an annual meeting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Formfound
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Purchasable fonts: Corpuscare (unicase, monoline, organic), Hitch (unicase), Flora (unicase) and Finesse. At DaFont, one can download his font FormFound.Com, which is a grunged up version of a typeface by Hans Reichel, 1996, but also Corpuscare, Flora, Finesse and Hitch. He also made Sliced Juice (2007, a sketch face) and the beautiful folded paper-look Origami (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Formlos (was: Folio)
| Formlos is an independent design bureau, brand consultancy and type foundry, founded in 1999 and originally located in Hellmonsoedt/Vienna, Austria. It seems to be in Berlin right now. David Hubner (b. 1981, Wels, Austria) is the Austrian designer (based in Hellmonsoedt and Malta) of
Lukas Kerecz created Monocrane (2013) while studying in Berlin. Link to his studio Dav Marken Design. Alternate URL (2003), where you can find his custom typography. Still another URL, called Folio (2003), where you can find his custom typography. Another URL, where Ventisei can be downloaded. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Formsport
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Other typefaces: Suhmo (2009, FontShop, a typewriter/Egyptian type family that won an award at TDC2 2011), Frapé (2001, pixel blackletter). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Hamburg-based group which has produced some nice type posters in 2009 (but they have an awful web site). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A sample of Federschrift Fraktur Initialen from 1729, city of Altona. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Main dates in the history of Fraktur.
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Fraktur.de
| Wonderful new foundry run by Friedemann, Volker and Markwart Lindenthal, and specializing in redigitizations of Fraktur fonts. Fonts: Gilgengart (Hermann Zapf, 1938), Gutenberg-Bibelschrift, Jaguar, Legende, Mainzer Fraktur (Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt, 1901), Post Fraktur (Herbert Post, 1933-1935), Rhapsodie (Ilse Schüle at Ludwig&Mayer, 1949-1951), Thannhaeuser Fraktur (Mager, magere Zierversalien, Schmalfett and Halbfett) (Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1937-1938), Wallau (Rudolf Koch, 1926-1934), Weber Mainzer, Weiss Rundgotisch (Emil Rudolf Weiß, 1937), Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift (Rudolf Koch, 1926), Zentenar Fraktur (Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, 1937-1938). There were plans to digitize Werbedeutsch and HermannGotik. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born and died in Bologna, ca. 1450-1518. Also called Francesco da Bologna. He was a Venetian punchcutter, who worked for Aldus Manutius cutting early italics, music types and romans. Under the surname Griffo, he designed and cut all types for the Aldine Press. The "Aldine" face was recreated by Monotype in 1929. In 1990, the Monotype staff digitized 24 weights of Francesco Griffo's Bembo family. The Bitstream version is called Aldine 401. Bembo is a face that is not compact, with its wide letters and ample spacings, so its use must be carefully weighed. Interesting detail about the end of his life: after the death of Manutius in 1515, Griffo returned to Bologna where he printed some of his own editions until his own death in 1518 or 1519, when it is thought he was hanged for killing his brother-in-law. Kevin Steele explains in 1996: Some sources cite the publication of Cardinal Bembo's De Aetna as 1493 or 1495. And in fact, the design continued to evolve until the 1499 publishing of the spectacular Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Let's not split hairs. Let's celebrate 500 years of Bembo! In the mid fifteenth century printing quickly spread to Italy from Germany, and by the 1470's Venice had became the center of the printing industry, home to over 100 printing companies. Pioneers such as Erhard Ratdolt and Nicolas Jenson had already begun working on adapting the roman alphabet for metal type by the time Aldus Manutius established his press in 1494, with the intention of publishing all the Greek classics. Aldus Manutius (1450 -1515) was a printer, entrepreneur, a great ego, and publisher of over 1200 titles. Among the many contributions of Aldus was the popularization of small, portable books. His expensive beautiful books were far from today's paperbacks, mind you. One of the many great talents working for Aldus was Francesco Griffo, a gifted type designer. Griffo created many innovative type designs that are still admired for their beauty and readability. Their collaboration broke up over a copyright dispute, primarily over the ownership of the cursive type face that Griffo developed under the direction of Aldus. Although Aldus even had a papal decree to protect this style of alphabet, it was as difficult then as it is now to protect a typeface design. The alphabet was widely copied, and the style is known as italic, after its country of origin. Fontdeck link. Linotype link. FontShop link. Nicholas Fabian on Griffo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank Baranowski
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Frank Baranowski
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Designer of the Kaffeesatz display family (1994, Linotype): great coffeehouse lettering. Smell the coffeebeans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Computer science student at the University of Hamburg, and supporter of open source code software. Creator of the Open Font Library fonts Tomson Talks (2008, comic lettering), Block Stencil (2008), Far Side (2008, sci-fi) and Futhaark hnias (2008, runes), Tomson Talks (2010, handprinted). Aka Skotan. Dark End is a hand-coded SVG font---check the source code to see what can be done with so little! Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank David
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Frank E. Blokland
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Designer at the University of Erlangen, Germany, of the pixel font MK Zodnig Square (2000). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank Grießhammer
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Frank Heine
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German type designer Frank K. Lüdicke designed Ramses, letters in the shape of hieroglyphs. He studied with Karlgeorg Hoefer (who would write with anything) and with Kurt Wolff (in Düsseldorf), and later learned Japanese calligraphic art. Ramses is now available from Elsner&Flake. At URW++, he designed the commercial dingbat font FunnyNature (1999) and the handwriting fonts FontForum Katie and Lüdickital. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
München-based German designer of Blue Stone and Xeranthemum (2000). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the pixel face FontForum FR73 Pixel (2004, URW). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Interaction designer, software expert and type enthusiast who lives in Berlin. A disciple of Lucas de Groot, he is the creator of Kiwisans and Steglitz Serif (which has the edgy influences of Preissig and Menhart). He published TypeShow, a typeface tester for web sites of foundries. Not the same Frank Rausch who created Caracteres L1, L2 and L4 (2004), free fonts that cover L1, L2 and L4, the French traffic sign alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank Rausch
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When Monotype Imaging bought Linotype in August 2006, Bruno Steinert resigned his position as Linotype's Managing Director on September 1, 2006, and was immediately succeeded by Frank Wildenberg in that position. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer at the Bauersche Giesserei who made Suggestion (1925). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Franz Heidl
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German designer of Zirkular Kursiv (1913, Emil Gursch). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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German publisher of the Windows XP Profischriften 2003 CD, which since 2004 has been entitled 1.800 Schriften für Windows (20 Euro at Amazon). Ulrich Stiehl studied this company, and offers a list of name analogies with commercial fonts here. This CD contains most fonts of the "Berthold Types" collection and also fonts by Adobe, Monotype, Linotype and other foundries. Stiehl writes that "the Franzis CD includes many fonts not contained in the MegaFont CD" [by Softmaker]. Stiehl's analyis shows that the 1774 font CD contains (i) Classic Fonts (copyright ClassicFontCorporation, USA RWE, typefaces of the former H. Berthold AG), and (ii) Modern Fonts and Display Fonts (copyright Christine Mauerkirchner and Rainer Grunert RWE, typefaces of Adobe, Agfa/Monotype, Linotype, Bitstream, Compugraphic and others). Stiehl says: Franzis Verlag GmbH was formerly a reputable independent technical book publishing house in Munich. It is located today in Poing, and publishes this above fonts CD which has fonts by "PrimaFonts alias ClassicFontCorporation alias Christine Mauerkirchner alias Rainer Grunert". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stuttgart-based designer. Student at the Rhode Island School of Design (2011-2013) in the MFA program. Her extensive portfolio includes the typeface Alfred (2012, a headline face inspired by the magazine Bomb), Insect Font (2007, experimental) and Never Sleep (2009, an angular font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fraugerlach
| German designer (b. Berlin, 1971) who studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee from 1993-1998. Shortly after finishing art school in 1998 and two visits to the UK as an exchange student, she founded her own studio for graphic design, type design and typography. She has lectured on type design and typography at Designakademie Berlin since 2003. In 2005, she started Fraugerlach. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, she spoke about type in the streets of Berlin (PDF of Verena's presentation). At ATypI 2010 in Dublin, she spoke about her personal experiences with cultural oppression (censorship) in Algeria in 2009. The PTL fonts in the list below were published at Primetype in 2002. Verena Gerlach created these typefaces:
FontShop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. Fontfont bio. View Verena Gerlach's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Freaky Fonts
| Freeware fonts by German type designer Christian Künzer (aka "ck") and/or Thomas Schostok. These include many game fonts. Interruptrequested, Gamegirl, Emulogic, Plasmafusion, Bordersprite, Runstop Restore, Scienide, Adore64, AmigaForever, AmigaForeverPro, AmigaForeverPro2, Arkanoid, ArkanoidSolid, ChuckyMendoza-Drunken, ChuckyMendoza, CosmicAlien, DanceFloorEXit, Devilinside, DynamicRecompilation, Fairlight, Formulatoocomplex.2, Frankieghost, Handwerk (handwriting), Harmonica, LastNinja (oriental simulation), LiquidKidz, LiquidKidzspazeout, PixelTechnology+, PixelTechnology, Plasmafuzion, Razor1911, Razor1911Retro, SyntaxError, SyntaxTerror, TexasFuneral, Triad, TriadXS, 1st Sortie. Windows system fonts (.fon format): Atopaz, C, C64, Camels, Defjam, Dynamic, Fairlight, Future, Heretic II, Kung Fu, Shylock, Noname, Qu, Quake II, Star, Trek. Free truetype creations: Knighthawks (nice outline font), Taito All Stars (bitmap faces), VectorBattle. Many fonts here are designed for screen legibility at small point sizes. See also here and here. The game fonts by Künzer (with repetitions from above) include Camels /ck!, Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2, Heretic II, Last Ninja, Last Ninja 3, Last Ninja 3 (8x8), Pirates, Quake1, Quake2, SIN, Stealth. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German designer of GP.F La Muerte (2005, with Ollie Peters), GP.F Bitur 1.0 (2005, bitmap fraktur font), GP.F Mudam (2005, with Ollie Peters) and Jado (2005, FF DIN modified for Jadolabs GmbH). GP.F Bitur 1.0 is on the CD that comes with Fraktur Mon Amour (Hermann Schmidt Verlag, 2006). MyFonts link. Creator of Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010, with Elena Albertoni; Cyrillic included), a family of eight sans typefaces sold via Anatoletype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Media designer in Forchheim, Germany. In 2013, he created the condensed poster typeface Golden Rules. | |
Berlin-based designer of the excellent octagonal black display faces Geist KNT and Geist RND (2006). Dafont link. Free downloads. Fontica link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
freetypography.com
| Free font blog and news site maintained by Philipp Thom (Ulm, Germany). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
At this astrology site, we find three astrological fonts, Alchemy and Astro (2 weights), by Cosmorama Enterprises. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fridayfonts
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In 2010, new fonts were added. Here is a partial list:
In 2013, Glissmann moved to Parsons in New York City, where he continued the tradition of posting the student work. However, there are no more downloads, and links are not clickable. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German designer (1895-1956) of Thomas-Schrift (1958, VEB Typoart) and Thomas-Versalien (1958, VEB Typoart). I guess the typefaces were finished by Friedel's angels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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German type designer (b. Dorste, 1863, d. Schönberg, 1943). In 1882, he becomes the type director at the foundry of Schelter&Giesecke in Leipzig, until 1890, and again from 1896-1898. From 1898 until 1911, he is the head of printing at Genzsch&Heyse, first in München and then in Hamburg. From 1911-1924, he taught at the Staatlichen Gewerbeschule Hamburg. At Genzsch&Heyse, he designed Albingia (1906), Bürgerschafts Fraktur (1907; Schnelle claims 1913), Genzsch Antiqua (1906), Genzsch Kursiv (1906), Genzsch Antiqua halbfett (1908), Genzsch Kursiv halbfett (1908), Genzsch Antiqua fett (1910), Genzsch Antiqua schmallfett (1910), Genzsch Fraktur (1931), Genzsch Fraktur halbfett (1932), Heyse Antiqua (1921), Heyse Antiqua halbfett (1924), Heyse Kursiv (1921), Senats Fraktur (1907), Senats Fraktur halbfett (1908), Germanische Antiqua (1911), Germanische Antiqua halbfett (1912), Germanische Kursiv (1911), Hamburger Druckschrift (1904; halbfett and fett in 1908). The first appearance of Nordisk Antiqua (or Genzsch-Antiqua) was in 1906 with a single weight under the name of "Nordisk Antiqua". In 1912 a family of seven weights was announced under the name "Genzsch-Antiqua" honoring the foundry in Hamburg where Bauer had been the manager of composing and printing since 1900. As the foundry Genzsch&Heyse had a lot of customers in Scandinavia, their Nordisk Antiqua became widely spread over the north of Europe. Gerhard Helzel has a digital revival of the Genzsch Antiqua family, in mager, halbfett and kursiv. all his other faces appeared at J.D. Trennert&Sohn: Fortuna (1930), Friedrich-Bauer-Grotesk (1933), Friedrich-Bauer-Grot. kräftig (1934), Friedrich-Bauer-Grot. halbfett (1934), Friedrich-Bauer-Grotesk fett (1934), F.-Bauer-Grot. schmalhalbfett (1934), Friedrich-Bauer-Grotesk licht (1934), Trennert Antiqua (1926), Trennert Kursiv (1927), Trennert Antiqua halbfett (1927), Trennert Antiqua fett (1929), Trennert Kursiv fett (1930), Trennert Antiqua schmalhalbfett (1929), Trennert Latein (1932). Author of Chrobik der Schriftgiessereien in Dutschland und den deutschsparchigen Nachbarländen (1928, Offenbach am Main). A PDF file exists that was made and expanded by Hans Reichardt in 2011. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Wassertrüdingen, Germany, Friedrich studied graphic design at FHP Potsdam/Berlin and then moved to Den Haag where he obtained a Masters in type design from the KABK in 2010. His project there led to the signage family Hinterland (2010), and to Builderdyke (2010), a revival project with Paul van der Laan: a digital reinterpretation of Johann Michael Fleischmann's Mediaan Romein. Glupsisch (2010) is a round piano key face created with the help of Typecooker. Fritzskript is a flowing connected script that was done at the Ecole supérieure Estienne, Paris. Estelita (2010) is a calligraphic hand that was inspired by the titles of a French art deco silent movie by Marcel L'Herbier called L'Inhumaine. Flickr page. Old URL for Fritz Grögel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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For Schneidler, the best source is the book by Max Caflisch, Albert Kapr, Antonia Weiss, and Hans Peter Willberg entitled F.H. Ernst Schneidler Schriftentwerfer Lehrer Kalligraph SchumacherGebler, München, 2002. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View F.H. Ernst Schneidler's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (b. 1905) at D. Stempel of Globus Cursive (1932), a fat italic with script-like features. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer (b. Langen, Germany, 1918) who designed fonts at Klingspor such as Information breitfett (1958). At D. Stempel, he designed Present (1974, now an Adobe font). He also made Sallwey Script (1979) and Roundy (1992). These are all script faces with some calligraphic influences. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Friedrich Ludwig Metzger had worked briefly for the typefoundry of Karl Tauchnitz in Leipzig. From 1848-1862, he was the leader of a church mission in Agra, India. In 1863, he set up a typefoundry in Leipzig and bought the typefoundry of Tauchnitz in 1865. In 1868, Robert Wittig was associated with Metzger, and the company became known as Metzger & Wittig. But that same year, all the matrices and type material was taken over by W. Drugulin, to be joined with the Niersschen Schriftgiesserei (est. 1829). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Friedrich Nies
| Leipzig-based typefounder who started W. Drugulin in Leipzig in 1829. Aka Niesschen Schriftgiesserei. Drugulin later evolved into the Museum für Druckkunst. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Friedrich Nies
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Designer, visual artist and calligrapher (b. 1933, Dresden, Germany) who moved to West Berlin in 1950, where he studied lettering design, painting, graphics, typography and calligraphy at the Academy of Visual Arts. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 with his wife, and started teaching in 1958 at the Vancouver School of Art, which later became the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and this until 1998. He has many designs for postage stamps, coins and medals in Canada between 1980 and 1998. He is an all-round artist who is also famous for his contributions to calligraphy. His typefaces:
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Designer of Schochische Cursiv (1844, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig). Schoch was also a foundry in Augsburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1878, Soennecken developed a method for creating glyphs, based on metal elements that are arcs or straight lines. The center lines of the glyphs are aligned with a grid. This was introduced in the German educational system in 1913. He wrote didactic texts on his construction method and on penmanship for the classroom. He died in 1919. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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German type designer, 1878 (Achim)-1956 (Nürtingen). Studied in Berlin. Founder in 1900, with F.H. Ehmcke and Georg Belwe, of the Steglitzer Werkstatt, which he left in 1903. He taught at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Design and Book Arts from 1903 until 1906. Thereafter he taught in Darmstadt and worked at private presses. From 1924-1931, he was advisor at D. Stempel AG, where he made, e.g., Gotische Antiqua (1914), Helga (1912, with round wide lower-case letters), Helga Antiqua (1913), Ingeborg Antiqua (1910), Omega (1926), Kleukens Scriptura (1926), Ratio Latein (1923), and Kleukens Fraktur (1910-1911) [sample scans: sample text, Zierbuchstaben, alphabet]. Still later, he made Trennert Fraktur (1931) at J.D.Trennert&Sohn. He also made Gutenberg-Fraktur. Many of his faces were revived. Kleukens Antiqua (Bauersche Giesserei, 1910) was revived by Nick Curtis in 2007 as Kleukens Antiqua NF and by Christine Gertsch at KABK in 2012 as Kleukens Antiqua. Kleukens Scriptura was digitally revived as Kleukens Kursiv NF (2010, Nick Curtis). The Scangraphic collection has his Trieste (1910). Petra Heidorn and her group created a revival of Kleukens Fraktur. Canada Type (Kevin Allan King and Patrick Griffith) published Ratio Modern (2011), a spectacular revival of Kleukens' 1923 didone face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Bookbinder, calligrapher and type designer, 1917-1997. He studied calligraphy with Rudo Spemann and Hermann Zapf. His fonts include Markus and Ingrid, which is used for the logo of The Bombay Company. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Schrift mit Zirkel und Richtscheit (Leipzig, 1955). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Das Buch des Setzers (1948), an overview of the hand composition typefaces available by German type foundries at the end of World War II:
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Died in 1940. Steltzer designed Monotype Script Bold. Some publications list him as F.H. Steltzer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blackletter type designer: Armin-Gotisch (1933, Schriftguss). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German letterer and autodidact, b. 1924. He developed some of his own types for printing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fritz Renzo Heinze
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Designer (b. Leipzig, 1945) at Typoart of Biga (1985), a shaded 3d headline face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the sans serif face Banja. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bill Troop explains the Myriad/Frutiger controversy. The present design patent system is practically useless as the examiner seems to take the case as presented, regardless of merit. But had we a system such as the German one that found Segoe was virtually identical to Frutiger, then Myriad would probably also be considered identical to Frutiger. No less an authority than Frutiger himself considered it so. Adobe had what seemed like a good idea: Myriad was supposed to be a completely characterless sans serif - that's why two designers, Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly, were assigned to it. The reasoning was that the two designers would cancel out each others' egos. Very good reasoning, but it didn't take sufficient account either of Robert's ego or his vampyrism. As the project moved on, Carol had less and less input on the design and, as she has remarked, the design grew more and more to look like Frutiger. (Amusingly enough Frutiger and even Segoe are cited in the most recent patent applications for Myriad.) It's an astonishing thing but for years very few people, other than Frutiger, noticed that Myriad was so close to Frutiger that it had to have been traced over it. You couldn't come that close without tracing. Frutiger complained vehemently, and was rewarded by the famous seven-page letter from Fred Brady of Adobe, explaining all the various ways in which Myriad was not a copy of Frutiger. Who to believe? Brady or Frutiger? Well, of all the non-entities in 20th century type history, Fred Brady is one of the non-est. And of all the masters of 20th century type, Adrian Frutiger is one of the greatest. That's a clue. In justice to Twombly, it is clear that she was not a willing participant. Carol is not a bad person, unless you think it is bad to choose to remain silent when something bad is unfolding. The same thing happened, a few years later with Cronos, a knockoff of Volker Kuester's Today Sans Serif. I know that Fred knew about this in advance, but precisely when? I'll never forget the phone call when I suggested to Fred that Adobe should take on Today Sans Serif. Hmmmm, he said. 'Scangraphic? Let me have a look at their specimen book. (Rustle of pages.) Today Sans Serif? Very nice. Well Bill, if you like Today Sans Serif, you're gonna love Robert's new Cronos.' I have subsequently wondered: was that the moment when he, who I think was technically Robert's manager, discovered that Today and Cronos were one and the same? Or was it a put-on for my benefit. One thing I'm surer of. When, some time later, I was talking to Carol and pointed out the near identity of Today and Cronos, the way she said, 'Not again!' seemed spontaneous. Carol did not know, until that moment, what had happened. So there we are. No company has been more active in seeking copyright protection than Adobe. But Adobe's record is so tarnished that I find myself unable to take much interest in font copyright. Was there another way for Adobe? There was, and they could have taken it, had the font group been possessed of sufficient mettle. There is the Font Bureau model. Font Bureau has produced numberless superb knock-offs. Each one is impeccably researched and executed, and each one is impeccably sourced. Font Bureau never stoops to assert that its knockoffs are original, much less worthy of patent. But it makes a superb case, which happens to be largely true, that its knockoffs are substantial improvements, technically, aesthetically, and functionally. I have been thinking about Font Bureau's model for years, and the more I think about it, the better I think it is. Type cannot and should not be over-protected. The key, as in all else, is honesty. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fuenfwerken Design AG
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At MyFonts, one can purchase a set of Christmas dingbat fonts called Xmas (2005, Linotype). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Furiosum
| Furiosum is Christian Gwiozda's foundry, est. 2010. Christian lives and studies communication design in Trier. Germany. In 2010, he made the slab serif face Larque. Structorator (2010) is a free app in which multiline text is generated modularly. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dirk Uhlenbrock's type pages, an on-line magazine with essays in German. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the calligraphic typeface Dies Irae (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blackletter type designer: Germroth-Deutsch (1935, Ludwig&Mayer). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gabriel deVue
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Gabrielarts.de
| German creator of the handprinted outline face Barbera Twisted (2012), which has three styles including one featuring a shadowed 3d effect. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German artist (b. 1962, wanne-Eickel) and type designer who won an award in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000 for the blackletter-inspired caps font Linotype Sangue (1996). Font sample. Home page. Fontshop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer (b. 1869) of Toscana Schriften and Toscana Schmuck (1908, Klinkhardt). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
GagaFonts (or: Gaga Design)
| Jens Gehlhaar at GagaFonts made the JensHand family (1995), Amoebia and AmoebiaRain (1993, organic family), Cornwall (1993, sans), Blindfish (1992), Capricorn (1994, free at Die Gestalten), Copycat (1994), GagaSingles (Amati, Lettuce and Somnolence, 1993), RemGothic, MoveYourHead, SophiesDream, Westpark and Gagamond (1993). All are available through DsgnHaus and Apply Design. Many aree also available via Radar Design at Faces. Gaga Design is based in Bad Ems, Germany. Gehlhaar also hangs him pyjamas in California. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Foundry, est. by brothers Karl and Paul Arndt in Berlin in 1874. Karl already had experience in a foundry. Paul died in 1894, aged just 49. In 1917, Karl sold the company to Otto Thefeld (b. 1868) who had been the company's manager since 1903. In 1921, the eldest son, Heinrich Thefeld, became partner in the company. One of their house types was Courante Gotisch. Gerhard Helzel has digitizations of Courante Gotisch---one based on Bauer, and another one based on the Cottasche Bibliothek der Weltliteratur (ca. 1850). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Geiger Artwork
| Shareware fonts by Jürgen Geiger in Sint Odilienberg, The Netherlands: GeigerBloc (2002), GeigerFree, GeigerInfo, GeigerSerif, the handwriting family GeigerScript, the script font family Script3 (2000), and the ZapfDingbats-like GeigerDingbats. See also here. See also here. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Links to old German handwriting fonts and literature. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Genotyp
| Michael Schmitz at the Universität der Künste Berlin developed a tool, genotyp, that allows one to blend and marry various types, the way Font Chameleon used to do. Discussion at TypeForum. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hamburg-based foundry taken over by Linotype in 1963. Their library included faces by these designers:
View the digital legacy of Genzch & Heyse. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Imperial punchcutter at the Reichsdruckerei Berlin, engraver and medalist, b. 1858, Stuttgart, d. 1937, Ravensburg. Type designer at C.F. Rühl (Berthold), where he made these blackletter faces: Neuwerk-Type (1908), Rühlsche Fraktur (1909), Rü-Neudeutsch (1899), Elementar-Deutsch (1911), Diadem (1912). At Rühl in Leipzig, he also made the script face Esther (1913) and the flared sans face Caesar Schrift (1913). [The latter was digitally revived in 2011 by Ralph M. Unger as Caesar Pro (2011).] At Ludwig & Mayer, he made Lyrisch (1907). At Akademie für das Buchgewerbe in Leipzig, he made Akademie-Fraktur (1912). Around 1900, he designed the Jugendstil genre font Germania (Reichsdruckerei), and the blackletter font Borussia (Reichsdruckerei). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Georg B. Allmacher
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Type designer (b. 1864, d. 1908, Berlin) who created the blackletter faces Barlösius-Gotisch (1907, Bauerische Giesserei), Fette Barlösius-Gotisch (1907, Bauerische Giesserei), and Barlösius-Buchschrift (1906, Bauerische Giesserei). Scan of Barlösius-Schrift (1907, Bauersche Giesserei). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
We all know Belwe for his Belwe text family (1907 art nouveau font, not my favorite). Based in Berlin, he lived from 1878 (b. Berlin) until 1954 (d. Ronneburg), and was for a long type head of the typography department at the Leipzig Academy for Art. After studies in Berlin, he set up the Steglitzer Werkstatt in 1900 with F.H. Ehmcke and F.W. Kleukens. He taught at the Kunstgewerbschule in Berlin. His typefaces: Belwe Antiqua (1913), Wieland (1926, a handwriting face done at J.G. Schelter&Giesecke), Schönschrift Mozart (1927), and various versions and additions to Belwe (1907-1914) such as Belwe Kursiv (1914). He made the blackletter font Belwe Gotisch in 1912 at J.G. Schelter&Giesecke. Digitizations of his work include Nick Curtis's 2009 face Bellwether Antique NF and in the Scangraphic collection, Belwe SB and Belwe SH. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Georg Giesecke, of Schelter&Giesecke in Leipzig, patented many of their typefaces in the USA. A partial list (with PDFs of the patents): Akantrea (1883), Angel Caps (1888), Border Series 73 (1887), Boxed Alphabet (1881), Celtic Caps (1883), Gothic Initials (1883), Initials (1889), Italian renaissance 1883), Kartuschen Einfassung Serie 72 (1887), Lombardic (1885), Ornaments (1878), Script (1887), Shieldface A (1881), Shieldface Combination Pieces (1881), Silhouette Border Series 63 (1884), Zierschrift 1400 (1889). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dresden-based designer of the rounded monoline monospace display typeface Gnux (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Linotype of Linotype Cutter Schere Com (1997, white on black informal lettering; with Georg Kugler in 2007), Linotype Tagesstempel (1999, with Georg Kugler) and Johnstemp Pro (2008, grunge). Are Georg John and Georg Kugler one and the same? FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Georg Kraus
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Designer of the white on black fonts Linotype Kutter (1997) and Linotype Schere (1997, with Georg John), and of Linotype Tagesstempel (1999, with Georg John). FontShop link. Are Georg John and Georg Kugler one and the same? [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the black display face Las Vegas (Linotype/Stempel, 1981). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Munich-based designer of Sindbad, a dingbat font of ornaments found in Oman. He also designed the dingbat font Linotype Circles (2002), Linotype Squares (2002), Linotype Triangles (2002), and Linotype American Indian (2002). FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Georg Salden
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Georg Seifert
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Georg Seifert
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View the typefaces made by Georg Trump. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German author of the DictSym type 1 font (2004), which contains a number of symbols used in dictionaries. Walter Schmidt wrotes an accompanying macro package for LATEX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic and abstract artist, b. Memel, Germany, 1914, d. Caracas, Venezuela, 1998. His oeuvre includes one typeface, Clip (1970-1974), a paperclip type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Elsner&Flake of BB Afrodite EF (1995, grunge), Autograph Script (handwriting), Autograph Sketch (dingbats), BB BornFree EF (1995, grunge), BB Craze EF (1995), BB Jane White, BB Jame EF (1995), BB LittleJoe EF (1995), EF Biba Babe, EF It, EF Literally, EF Little Joe. His fonts are of the destructive type. All fonts co-designed with Joerg Ewald Meissner. At Linotype, they published Linotype Dharma (1997, a gorgeous display font), Linotype Tiger (1997, a jungle font), Puritas (2002, high-legged letters and ornaments done as part of the TakeType 4 pack) and CaseStudyNo1 (2002, part of the TakeType 4 pack). | |
Gerd Sebastian Jakob
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Freelance graphic designer (b. Bremen) who made the simple handprinted typefaces FF Oxmox, FF Tramline, and FF Layout (1996) at FontFont. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Gerda Delbanco
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Helzel also offers a free "Frakturconverter" program for Windows which transforms Antiqua fonts into Fraktur fonts. List of his fonts as of 2009: (Anker-)Schul-Fraktur, Accidenz-Gotisch, Akzidenz-Gotisch, Aldine, Albion-Gotisch, Alt-Fraktur, Alt-Gotisch (Bradley), Alt-Deutsch (after Ferdinand Theinhardt, 1851), Alte Münchner Fraktur (after a 1850 typeface by Gustav Lorenz), Alte deutsche Schreibschrift, Alte Schwabacher, Amts-Fraktur (after Heinrich Wilhelm Hoffmeister), Andreae Fraktur, Andreas-Schrift, Angelsächsisch, Angelsächsisch, Verzierte, Antike Gotisch, Aramäische Quadratschrift, Astra, Bastard, Bernhard-Fraktur, Bismarck-Gotisch, Breite deutsche Anzeigenschrift, Breite Kanzlei, Breitkopf-Fraktur, Britannia (Alt-Gotisch), Büxenstein-Antiqua, Büxenstein-Fraktur (after a house style at D. Stempel, 1912), Canzlei, Caxton, Caxton-Type, Claudius, Courante Gotisch, Danziger Fraktur (after A. W. Kafemann), Derby, Deutsche Reichsschrift (after a 1910 typeface by Wilhelm Woellmer), Deutsche Schrägschrift, Deutsche Schreibschrift (Bismarck-Zeit and Goethe-Zeit: school fonts), Deutsche Schrift, Deutsche Werkschrift, Deutsche Zierschrift, Deutsch-Gotisch, Deutschland, Dresdner Amts-Fraktur, Eckmann-Schrift, Einfache Kanzlei, Elegant, Element, Enge Gotisch (2008, after an 1880 font by Bauersche Giesserei), Enge moderne Kanzlei, Enge König-Type, Enge Kanzlei, Englische Antiqua, Faust-Fraktur, Fette Gotisch, Fette Schwabacher, Fichte-Fraktur, Fractur, Französische Antiqua, Frühling-Fraktur (1997, after Koch's original from 1917), Garamond-Antiqua, Genzsch-Antiqua, Germanen-Fraktur (this is the same as Stempel's Normannia from 1905), Germanisch, Goethe-Fraktur (after Wilheml Woelmmer), Gotenburg, Graeca, Gronau-Gotisch (after Heinrich Ehlert, 1850), Gursch-Fraktur, Gutenberg-Fraktur, Gutenberg-Bibelschrift, Gutenberg-Gotisch, Haenel-Antiqua, Halbfette Aldine, Halbfette Kanzlei, Halbfette Normalfraktur, Halbfette Schwabacher-Flinsch, Halbfette Wallau, Hamburger Druckschrift, Hamburger Fraktur, Hamburger Schwabacher, Hammonia-Gotisch, Hansa-Fraktur, Hansa-Gotisch (after a Genzsch & Heyse original), Hebräisch, Hellenistische Antiqua "Graeca", Hölderlin (after Eugen Weiss, 1927), Holländische Gotisch, Hoyer-Fraktur, Humboldt-F |
123 Buero is Timo Gaessner's graphic design studio, est. 2002 in Berlin. Gaessner studied at the Kunstacademie in Maastricht, at the University of Arts, Berlin, and at G. Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. He was a founding member of Balcony Magazine in Paris in 2001. His typefaces include 123Naiv (2004), 123Queen (2004), 123Sweater (2005), 123Julia (2001). All of these are characterized by minimalist shapes. Fonts like 123Naiv can also be bought at 
On his 70th birthday, Apostrophe summarizes his contributions, and called him the Mark Twain of type. The quotation repeated: "I have really fond memories of Manfred's earliest works, some stuff he did for Apply, Alphabets, and Fontshop. That was the early- to mid- 1990s, when type was still making the transition from photolettering and punches onto this new digital platform. Every old type and its grandfather were being scanned and digitized in all the swift intensity of serial killers, as if time were running out on us. Business concepts were being built around computer letters, territories were being marked, borders drawn... and into all this comes the work of Manfred Klein, like a breath of lake breeze to make light of everything. His Quill script and its hilarious dingbats were among the first "deviate" shockers in type originals. His Birds and Witches dingbats will in my mind always be the very first "funnybats" ever made. Also I shouldn't forget to credit him with the very first digitization I have ever seen of Gutenberg's type. There's been many attempts at it after that, but none had that same first-time effect on me. I'm having a hard time believing that the man's turning seventy now. I can't help but feel a little cheated. I've only known of him for less than 8 or 9 years. I've always thought of him as a star, so imagine if I knew him in his thirties, fourties, or fifties. Still, I was lucky enough to learn of him, learn from him, even communicate with him... all that makes me feel less cheated, and somehow much more life-wise. My one-liner about Manfred, if I were ever asked to compose one, would be this: The Mark Twain of type is a German called Manfred Klein." [
In house type designer at Elsner&Flake. He designed an elegant high-contrast art deco display face 
German type designer who designed the classical display face 
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Lutz Baar (b. Berlin, 1946) ran Antropos. He is a calligrapher/type designer who runs a design studio called 
German cofounder of Underware (b. Heidelberg, Germany, 1971), a typographic design studio based in Den Haag, founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki and Bas Jacobs. Akiem was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1971 and lives in Den Haag, where he studied from 1998-2000 at the KABK. He codesigned all Underware fonts: Dolly, Bello, Sauna, Liza (2009), Auto (1, 2 and 3), Unibody 8 and Fakir. 
Born in 1960 in Niigata, Japan. Studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. He also studied calligraphy at the London College of Printing. He became a freelance designer in 1997. Akira Kobayashi, who was based in Tokyo prior to his move to the Franfurt area, is an accomplished type designer who has created numerous typefaces for Sha-Ken, Dainippon Screen (where he made the kanji font Hiragino Mincho), TypeBank (from 1993-1997), ITC and Linotype, where he is Type Director since 2001. 
Foundry in Offenbach, Germany. Their main specimen book is Haupt-Probe über Schriftgiesserei-Erzeugnisse und Messing-Material (1911, Offenbach am Main). House faces include the blackletters 
German type designer, b. Frankfurt am Main, 1868, d. Leipzig, 1943. His oeuvre: 
German type designer, typographer, calligrapher, author and educator, b. Stuttgart (1918), d. 1995. He was art director at the Dresden type foundry VEB Typoart from 1964 until 1977. He founded and led the Institut für Buchgestaltung at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst at Leipzig from 1956 until 1978. 
Born and died in Nuremberg, Germany, 1471-1528. Painter, wood carver and copper engraver extraordinaire, famous for many great geometrical and 
Aleksandra studied art and design at the Latvian Art Academy, where she graduated with a BA, and at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin. She is a multidisciplinary designer and active as an artist. Graduate of the 
Alexander Alexandrowitsch Roth was born in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic and immigrated to Germany in 1993. He is a Berlin-based graphic designer who holds a bachelor degree in Media Production from the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Scienes. Alexander is one of the founders of 
German designer of 
Karlsruhe-based software developer. Creator of the large (and free) Unicode font 
German designer (aka laynecom) at 
German (?) designer who made the avant garde face Mahlau in 1926, which was in the 
A classic form of blackletter first seen in 1472 in Augsburg where Johann Bämler created a version. It was very popular in the 16th century. Revived, e.g., by the following foundries: Drugulin/D. Stempel (1919), Benjamin Krebs (1918), 
Graduate of the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim in 1997. He is co-founder of mal4 - Bürogemeinschaft für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, and has worked as a freelance illustrator and designer since 1996. In 1999, he became involved in making and directing animation films for Anschi und Karl-Heinz, a children's television program aired weekly. Rösler illustrated several picture books for the Peter Hammer Publishing House. This probably explains why and how he designed 
Calligrapher and type designer in Berlin, b. 1956, who heads the type department at FontShop International. He cooperated with Axel Betram on the text family 
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This German designer used iFontmaker in 2011 to create 
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Berlin-based type designer, b. Vienna, 1974. 
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Andreas Wohlleben is an illustrator based in Böblingen, Germany. In 2013, he published 
Designer at Elsner&Flake in 1998 of the wonderful dingbat fonts EF Imagination Black, EF Imagination Fisheyes, 
German illustrator and graphic designer who works at Keller Maurer Design in Munich. Born in Ravensburg in 1982, as a student in 2007, she created 
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Wernau (was: Wendlingen), Germany-based Anke Arnold's free fonts: aa QWERTZ-Tasten (2012: German keyboard font), 
German designer who studied at FH Trier. Creator of 
German type designer in Hamburg (b. 1967) who designed Arne Freytag (1998) and 
Astype.de is a German foundry started in 2003 by illustrator and type designer Andreas Seidel (b. 1975). He lives in Cottbus, Germany. 
Foundry and studio run by 
Berlin-based foundry, est. 2012 by Christoph Dunst. 
München-based foundry, est. 2008 by Gert Wiescher, whose main font foundry is Wiescher Design. 
Bastarda (Schwabacher in German) dominated printing in Europe in the last part of the 15th and the first part of the 16th centuries. It breaks with the heavy Textura that Gutenberg used in his first books and his bible. All of the Lutherian books were set in Schwabacher, which was nearer to handwriting. It was probably first used by Johannes Bäumler in Augsburg in 1472. In any case, it was in use in Nürnberg in 1485, and showed up in 1490 in Anton Koberger's Schedelsche Weltchronik and in 1498 in Albrecht Dürer's Apokalypse. Examples: 
Andreas Seidel lists the blackletter faces published by the Bauersche Giesserei (and I added a few more): 
Foundry in München, Germany, run by Adam Bell (b. 1972, Landsberg), who despite his name is a native German. After learning to be a silkscreen printer he studied graphic design in Würzburg. Together with Tanja Kischel and Georg Behringer, he runs a small design agency and shop called Umwerk in München since 2004. 
German foundry established in 1816 by Benjamin Krebs (1785-1858) and based in Frankfurt, which grew out of Schriftgießerey der Andreäischen Buchhandlung. Many of its shares were acquired by D. Stempel in 1933. A list of the faces: 
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Aka Jonathon the Dog, Benjamin Weymann is located in Kassel, Germany. 
Limbach-Oberfrohna (Saxony)-based designer (b. 1987) of the calligraphic roman display face 
Hamburg-based 
Once called Berthold Types and now Berthold Direct Inc, this companay is located in Chicago, IL, and was/is run by Harvey and Melissa Hunt. It was acquired by Monotype in 2011. The font collection is aristocrated, unpolluted by grunge and cheap thrills, featuring many well-known text type families. On the other hand, typophiles all over the world are aghast at the marketing strategies of Berthold. The fonts, all having "BE" or "BQ" in the font names, originated from Berthold AG in Germany, a company that went bankrupt. Some people argue that the Chicago-based Berthold has no rights to the old Berthold AG collection---a fact documented by Uli Stiehl. But most importantly, the Hunts became famous because of the numerous lawsuits typically related to the selection of font names too close to names in their collection. 
German type designer (b. Offenbach, 1905, d. London 1989), who studied under Rudolf Koch from 1924-27 at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach. He emigrated to England in 1935 because of his Jewish background. Wolpe taught at the Camberwell College of Art (1948-53), at the Royal College of Art in London (1956-75) and at the City&Guilds of London School of Art (from 1975 onwards). From 1941-1978, he worked as a book designer for Faber&Faber in London, designing over 1500 book jackets. He published Schriftvorlagen (Kassel 1934), Marken und Schmuckstücke (Frankfurt am Main, 1937), A Book of Fanfare Ornaments (London, 1939), Renaissance Handwriting (with A. Fairbanks, London 1959), and Architectural Alphabet. J. D. Steingruber (London, 1972). Designer of 
Manfred's fascination with blackletter and its German roots is apparent from the tens of typefaces he designed that are either revivals of historic typefaces or playful and not so playful extensions. Here we go: 
Pforzheim-based Boris Dworschak graduated in 2003 fom the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim, Germany. Designer at 
Cologne-based group of type designers, founded in 1996: Guido Schneider, Hartmut Schaarschmidt, Martin Bauermeister, René Tillmann, Rolf Zaremba. There are many original free fonts here: Amnesia (René Tillmann; now also sold by URW), Anorexia (G. Schneider, 1996), Battery, Battery Seriph, Battery Leak (Tuschemann, 1996), 
Brigitte Schuster is a graphic designer, calligrapher and lettering artist who graduated in 2008 from Concordia University in Montreal (only one block away from Luc's house...). She writes about herself: I am an independent Art Director (Graphic Design), Print Artist and Photographer practicing in Montreal, Canada. I am currently teaching typography and photography courses in the Graphic Design department of a college in Montreal. After attending a three-year graphic design program in Munich, Germany, I spent a few years working there both as an employee for print and web agencies, and as a freelancer. In 2005, I completed a Bachelor in Fine Arts, with a specialization in painting from the Italian Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Italy. [...] I moved to Canada in 2005 where I continued working in and for the graphic design industry. In 2008 I completed the Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice at Montreal's Concordia University. In my graphic design practice I ideally work in editorial design, also corporate branding, with a focus on typography. Over the last year or two, I developed a great interest in type, which I express in my 
Graphic designer in Hanover, Germany, who studied at FHH in Hanover. 
Art nouveau type designer, who created 
Magazine dealing with Fraktur (history, font-designers) and German language, est. 1927. Written in German and typed in blackletter. Currently edited by Harald Rösler. Gerda Delbanco of Delbanco Frakturschriften is the wife of 
Patric Schwarz (
Büro für Gestaltung Janssen, or Janssen Design, is located in Hamburg. It is involved in print, screen, animation, corporate and type design, and was founded in 2002 by Sylvia and 
Stuttgart-based foundry 
German designer (b. Stettin, 1864, d. Stuttgart, 1941). He studied lithography from 1878-1882, and worked as a lithographer in Stuttgart from 1891-1895. After that, until 1939, he was a free-lance graphic designer in Stuttgart. He made these typefaces: 
C.G. Naumann is Carl Gustav Naumann, who ran a family printing business in Leipzig. In 1901, he published Schriftproben der Firma C.G. Naumann. Sample pages of that book are shown in the link. 
Designer (b. 1900, Rastenburg, Germany) of the brush script Polo (Typoart, 1960). It was digitally redesigned and reinterpreted by Andreas Seidel as 
Carrois Type Design (Berlin, Germany) started up officially ca. 2010, although Ralph du Carrois has been designing typefaces since ca. 2002. This dynamic company in Germany has three art directors, Jenny du Carrois, Anja Meiners and Botjo Nikoltchev. All three also design typefaces, as well as Adam Twardoch, Andreas Eigendorf and Ralph du Carrois himself. The company specializes in custom type. 
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Wolgast-based type designer Peter Wiegel (b. 1955) runs CAT Design Wolgast. Designer of these free fonts: 
Leipzig-based foundry. It produced faces such as Neuwerk-Type (1908, Georg Schiller's blackletter), 
Chiron specializes in revivals of old German lead types, and creates an occasional original font. The list I am aware of: 
Interface design student at FH Potsdam, Germany. He created the simple 
Danish designer (b. 1991), aka CMunk, who used 
Creator of the 
Designer in Trier, Germany. She used the lettering on a shop in Mainz to develop the signage script face 
Author (b. 1938) of Kalligraphie. Die Kunst des schönen Schreibens (1986-1989, with Christian Scheffler). In that book, she drew several alphabets, including an 
Namibian-German designer of 
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Graphic designer and illustrator in Köln, Germany. 
Born in 1982 in Karslruhe, he is one of the cofounders of 
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German creator in Trier of a typographic robot called 
Berlin-based German type designer (b. 1965) who graduated from Fachhochschule Bielefeld in 1992, where she studied under Gerd Fleischmann. She designed great sans serif family appropriately called Kipp at 
German designer of 
CybaPee is the nom de plume of Petra Heidorn who lives in Hamburg. She has created may typefaces (listed below) and has cooperated with many on interesting projects. She is undoubtedly best known for her successful web site 
The Daimler Benz font series by Kurt Weidemann, created from 1985-1989 for Stuttgart's Daimler Chrysler company which markets Mercedes, is 
Stuttgart-based Danny Amor was active in the 1990s. His fonts include 
Talented German designer in Karlsruhe whose Masters thesis led him to develop the 
Daniel Utz lives in Stuttgart, Germany. Involved in corporate (graphic and type) and interactive design, he also teaches digital typography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Designer of 
Gerda Delbanco's German foundry in Ahlhorn, specializing in blackletter fonts. Great web presentation, and gorgeous glyphs. The company is owned by Gerda Delbanco, but it is not clear if she designed some or all of the faces. Some fonts were designed by Gerhard Helzel, and others by Christian Spremberg. This is one of the best sources of blackletter fonts in the world. Names of the fonts, which are nearly all historical revivals of the great blackletter fonts: 
German typographer and illustrator from Bremerhaven. He created the free gridded font 
Calling himself a design tourist, German designer 
German cartoonist and animated gif artist (b. 1965) who lives in Lorraine. She designed 
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FontShop was the name of 
Born in 1943, Zembsch began his career in graphic arts as a typesetter. He subsequently studied graphic design at Mannheim and Stuttgart. MyFonts: While working as a packaging designer for the pharmaceutical firm of Mann&Schröder, in his spare time he designed the winning entry in Letraset's International Typeface Competition for 1972/73, a typeface named Beans. He later worked as advertising manager for a German publishing house and, in 1977, he became an independent graphic designer. In addition to illustrating book jackets for other authors, he has written and illustrated several of his own works. Zembsch and partner Sophie Weiss currently run a design firm in Munich. In 2009, Nick Curtis designed a digital extension and modification of Beans called 
Typefoundry in München run by independent designer Antje Driemeyer, a graduate from the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Faculty of Design in 2004. Antje specializes in type design, corporate design and editorial design. 
German creator of the proofreader symbol and text font 
The Dutch Type Library was founded in 1990 by Frank Blokland (b. 1959, Leiden). It is based in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Fonts include DTLAlbertina (Chris Brand), DTLArgo (Gerard Unger), 
German type designer who did mainly blackletter alphabets: 
München-based painter and graphic designer who desiigned type for Genzsch&Heyse, b. 1893, Stuttgart, d. 1978, München. He studied under Julius Dietz at the Kunstgewerbeschule München, and studied as well at the Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart. 
Visual communications designer in Germany. At 
Influential Israeli graphic and type designer, 1907-2001. 
German type foundry in Hamburg established in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake. They offer original fonts as well as improved versions of classical fonts. There are many non-Latin fonts as well. In-house designers include Jessica Hoppe (Carpediem), Verena Gerlach (
Swiss ex-student of Ian Party at ECAL in Lausanne, who created 
Design studio of Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma and Daniel Fürst, located in Berlin. Custom fonts made by them include 
German designer of the medium weight formal script font 
Type designer involved with 
German type designer and graphic designer par excellence, born in 1947 in Stadthagen. He set up MetaDesign in Berlin in 1979. In 1988 he set up FontShop, home of the FontFont collection. He holds an honorary professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council, and president of the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers). In July 2000, Erik left MetaDesign Berlin. He now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco, designing publications, complex design systems and more typefaces. He collaborated on the publication of the comprehensive 
Typographer, type designer (b. 1879, Kassel, d. 1967, Bad König), teacher (at the Frankfurt Vocational School and at the College of Arts and Crafts in Offenbach am Main) and author of typographic books. In 1905, Engel became supervisor of in-house printing at the Klingspor foundry. 
Nineteenth century engraver (b. Germany, 1872, d. 1944) in Chicago. He designed these typefaces: 
German designer of the titling face 
Type historian 
Design studio in Berlin run by Chris Zibell and Mirco Fiss. 
In 1993, 
FDI stands for fonts dot info. This foundry is located in Jena, Germany, and is also known as Rossbach&Herrmann GbR. It is run by 
FE Mittelschrift and FE Engschrift are the German typefaces used on automobile license plates. The FE stands for fälschungserschwerend, or hard to forge: for example, it is no longer possible to make a P into an R or a 3 into an 8 with a black marker pen. Developed from 1978-1980 by 
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Art director in Munich, Germany. 
Berlin-based foundry from the 19th century, whose typefaces included 
Berlin-based graphic designer. He created the stencil face 
Floodfonts has freeware fonts by 
Marta Podkowińska is the Polish designer of a few great type logos such as Bomba (2009). She also made the exquisite 
German designer (b. 1982) who studied at the University of Muenster, and who works at the Corporate Communication Institute. He created a 
Designer in London, who was born in Flensburg (Germany) and studied for four years in Aarhus (Denmark). 
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Samuel Marcius (b. 1970, from Boeblingen, Germany) finally has a web page for his own creations (fonts and dingbats). By the way, my own logo (the moose on all my web pages) is from Marcius' WinPets 1---I liked the sense of humour that shines through the drawing, and the spirit of Don't take life too seriously. 
FontFabrik was established in 1997 in Berlin by Luc(as) de Groot (b. 1962, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands). He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag, worked from 1989-1993 as a freelancer at the design bureau Premsela Voonk. From 1993-1997, he was with Meta Design in Berlin as typographic director in charge of many corporate design projects. In 1997, he set up his own studio, FontFabrik. Since 2000 his fonts are also sold under the Lucasfonts label. He creates retail and custom fonts, and made his reputation with his humongous font family Thesis. Originally, he published most of his retail fonts with FontFont, but his "FF" fonts were withdrawn from FontFont in 1999, and renamed with LF instead of FF, where LF stands for 
Natascha Dell (Fontfarm, Aachen) is a graduate from FH Aachen (Germany) who wrote a 
At Fontgrube AH, Andreas Höfeld, a protestant pastor from Erbach/Odenwald, designed these typefaces: 
German type foundry of 
Düsseldorf-based German foundry of designer 
German foundry, est. 2010 by Michel M and 
Peter is a German designer, born in 1981. Peter Fritzsche's company is called Formfound. For a cool 900 Euros, he will make you one style of a font. 
German designer in Mönchen-Gladbach of the text family 
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 
Designer at the Benjamin Krebs foundry who made Epoche (1912---well, I think this was by Eduard Lautenbach), 
Free font site, est. 2009. The fonts being displayed and introduced were developed by students in seminars and workshops offered by 
Potsdam, Germany-based designer of the free fonts 
Type designer and calligrapher (b. Passau, 1901, d. 1980, Traunstein) who made 
Type designer, teacher, publisher and calligrapher, b. Berlin (1882), d. Gundelfingen (1956). He worked initially with J.G. Schelter&Giesecke in Leipzig and C.E. Weber in Stuttgart. In the 1930s, he published his type designs with Bauer. From 1920-1948, he was head of the graphics division of the Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart. His oeuvre resides now in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach. He is famous for his Zentenar Fraktur, Schneidler Mediaeval and Legende. In general, due to his calligraphic tendencies, his types have great rhythm. In his era, he was at the top of his craft (in my view). 
German scribe and calligrapher (b. Soborten, Czechoslovakia, 1923, d. Wiesbaden, 1982), and designer of several text families, such as 
Typefoundry in Regensburg, Germany. Its typefaces included Neue Kirchenschrift (ca. 1890, a typeface acquired from Bauer) and Neue Zeitings Schwabacher (ca. 1900). For digital revivals, see Gerhard Helzel's 
Typefounder, b. 1834, Frankfurt am Main, d. 1923, Stuttgart. Designer of Bauersche Fraktur (1905, Bauersche Giesserei) and 
Born in 1878 in Hohensalza, Ehmcke died in 1965 in Widdersberg. Graphic artist, book and type designer, and professor. From 1893-1897, he studied lithography in Berlin, and from 1899-1901 he studied at the Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin. With Georg Belwe and Friedrich W. Kleukens, he founded the Steglitzer Werkstatt in 1900. He taught from 1903 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf, and from 1913-1938 at the Kunstgewerbeschule München . He ran the Rupprecht Presse in Munich from 1913-1934. Since 1941, he worked for the Bund für Deutsche Schrift, which is partially concerned with blackletter type. Finally, from 1946-1948, he was professor at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste München. He designed these typefaces: 
German company. In 2008, Fuenfwerken Design won the pitch for a design concept for the new information centre. Fuenfwerken Design was picked to design Technische Universität Darmstadt's recently completed reception building. Daniel Schops created a pixel font family for this project, entitled TU DotMatrix (2009, FontStruct). Free download. 
German designer at URW++ of the wonderfully futuristic font 
Codesigner with Marcus Sterz at FaceType of a Victorian type family called 
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German painter and illustrator of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity eras. He emigrated to the United States in 1933. 
Dutch type designer, born in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in 1942. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Reading, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. From 1974 on, he designed type, starting his career at Hell in Kiel in 1986. He still teaches at Reading and Rietveld. He has designed 
Between 1928 and 1965, 
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