10. Tage der Typografie

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]  ⦿

1001 Fonts
[Max Bloch]

This is Bremen, Germany-based Maximilian Bloch's fun free font archive. Useful, to the point, professional, complete, and entertaining. Has a messageboard, and is categorized in any possible way. If you want to download 500 fonts in the minimum possible time, this is not your place though. Newest additions.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

11. Tage der Typografie

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]  ⦿

12. Tage der Typografie

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]  ⦿

123 Buero
[Timo Gaessner]

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 Die Gestalten. Free font: Naiv-Fat (2007). Since 2010, partner with Alexander Meyer in Milieu Grotesque. At MilieuGrotesque (or: Meyer&Gässner, Zurich), his fonts Maison (2010, grotesque family) and Chapeau (2010, rounded) can be bought.

In 2014, Timo designed Patron at Milieu Grotesque, a typeface inspired by type designers Günther Gerhard Lange and Roger Excoffon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

13. Tage der Typografie

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]  ⦿

14. Tage der Typografie

The XIV. Tage der Typografie was held from 28-30 June 2013 in Lage-Hörste. Speakers: Andreas Koop, Lukas Hartmann, Tanja Huckenbeck, Niklaus Troxler, Dirk Uhlenbrock. [Google] [More]  ⦿

21. Bundestreffen des Forum Typografie

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]  ⦿

33pt | contributing to typography

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]  ⦿

3type

Shanghai, China-based type foundry, est. 2017, with a foreign office in Berlin. They specialize in multilingual and multiscriptual typography and type matching, in particular for Chinese, Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Their font catalog in 2020:

• Astronomer (2018). An attractive Latin / Hanzi text typeface that refers to the Ming Dynasty astronomer / mathematician / scholar Xu Guangqi (aka Paul Siu, 1562-1633).
• Dinkie Bitmap (2018-2020). A pixel typeface for Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Chinese by Willie Liu.
• Ellenda (2018). An art deco typeface by Zheng Chuyang.
• Faustina (2010-2018). A poster typeface by Zheng Chuyang, after an idea by Luise Schenker. It covers Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic, including the Persian, Urdu, Uyghur, Kazakh and Kirgiz versions. It also has a rich set of Emojis.
• Freundschafts-Antiqua Neue (2017), by Roman Wilhelm. Covering Latin, Vietnamese, and Hanyu Pinyin, this 6-style typeface family revives the award-winning text typeface Freundschafts-Antiqua made in 1959 by Yu Bingnan.
• Hong Kong Street Face (2015). A Hanzi font by Roman Wilhelm that reflects the character of Hong Kong.
• Xingkai Next (2017). A modern polygonal typeface for Hanzi, by Li Zhiqian. It was derived from cursive handwriting and Chinese calligraphy.
• Ryan Serif (2017). A Latin display typeface by Ryan Lau.
• Weaf Mono (2017-2018). A monospaced monolinear sans family by Zheng Chuyang and Li Zhiqian, covering Latin, Hanzi (Chinese), Arabic, Cyrillic and Devanagari. It also has some emoji characters.
• RVS Basic (2021). A brilliant and bold reverse-contrast typeface with an emphasis on Hanzi. Commercial letterings from the Republic of China and a calligraphic style named Qishu from the Qing Dynasty jointly inspired the typeface. Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022.

45 Symbols

The book 45 Symbols published in Köln in 2014 introduces 45 projects of 45 symbols (so 45 times 45 icons in all) created by students from Parsons The New School For Design (New York), Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lebanese American University Beirut. Falmouth University UK, and Universidad de los Andes (Bogota) on a variety of themes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

6. Tage der Typografie

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]  ⦿

7. Tage der Typografie

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
[Manfred Klein]

On his 70th birthday, Apostrophe summarized Manfred Klain's contributions, calling him the Mark Twain of type: 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

9. Tage der Typografie

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]  ⦿

912lab
[Adrian Spiegel]

Adrian Spiegel (912lab, Germany), aka Prinzadi, created the pixel typeface Minusio (2014). In 2017, he designed a brush typeface also called Minusio.

(Old) Prinzadi link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Froescher

German designer of these blackletter typefaces: Block Fraktur (1914-1915, Berthold), Stuttgarter Fraktur (1915, Berthold). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. M.

German designer of the free typewriter font AM Type 1 (2016) and the ornamental caps typeface AM Intex (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aarhaus
[Ari Hausel]

Aarhaus is Ari Hausel's German type foundry located near Munich, est. 2006. Hausels's teachers included Heinz Peikert (calligraphy) and Günter Gerhard Lange (typography).

In 2015, he designed the German expressionist typeface Irrlicht based on Christian Heinrich Kleukens's 1923 typeface Judith Type. Dunkle Irrlicht is a fairly faithful rendition and extension of Judith Type. The Licht style combines a stencil version and an inline version that was inspired by dry, cracked wood. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Wolber

During his studies at he Akademie für Gestaltung in Köln, Germany, Aaron Wolber created the display sans typeface Gemeinschaft (2013, custom made for a catholic community in Geyen), the geometric sans Basic Alphabet (2013), and the serif typeface Zwanzig (2013).

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ABC Design
[Johannes Birkenbach]

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]  ⦿

Abel & Stone

Design studio in Munich, Germany. Creators of the art deco typeface Quarantaene during the apex of the Ebola scare in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abitz.Com Multilingual Software

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]  ⦿

Abraham Quantosch de Nostre

Graduate of the University of Münster, Germany, who is based in Hildesheim. Designer of the free ultra-black typeface Klotz (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Achaz Reuss

In house type designer at Elsner&Flake. He designed an elegant high-contrast art deco display typeface Miami EF in 1994, the broken black lettering typeface EF Splitter, the horizon lettering typeface EF Eastside in 1995, and Nivea in 2000 (for Beiersdorf).

Designer of the Bank Gothic style gaspipe sans family FF QType (2004, FontFont) in Condensed, Compressed, Extended, SemiExtended and Square versions.

In 2007, he created Bodoni Stencil (URW++). Other URW creations include Latin, Nimbus Roman Modern Compress, URW Compress and URW Oklahoma (art deco).

Achim Reichert

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 typeface 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
[Alt-Katholiken in Deutschland]

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ACME Fonts (or: CHK Design)
[Christian Küsters]

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 MyFonts. The company evolved, I guess, into CHK Design.

MyFonts link. Interview. Klingspor link. The ACME font list:

• By Christian Küsters: AF Angel (1998, based on an old woodblock typeface), AF Satellite, AFWendingen, Cashier 1 AF (1998, dot matrix), AF Champ Fleury (1996, a Codex-like face), AF Hybrid (1996), AF Hadrian Roman (1998, art nouveau), AF Interface One and Two (1998, grotesque sans), AF Retrospecta (1998, exaggerated wedge serif family), AF Track AF One and Two (1998, white on black dot matrix printing), Unzialis (1994), Zip Code AF 30, 40, 50 and 60 (2001, hairline squarish sans family). Christian had a nice connection at Plazm, where he published Hadrian (1996), Retrospecta (1994), Unzialis (1994), Hybrid (1996) and Interface One (1996).
• By Robert Green: AF PAN (1997, octagonal).
• By Henrik Kubel: 4590, AF-Battersea (1999, a grotesque family), AF-CENTERA, AF-Copenhagen, AF-Klampenborg (2000, grotesque sans), CPH-ArabicNumbers, CPH-Medium, Grot-25.
• By Sandy Suffield: CarPlatesCarPlates, AF Carplates (1998, squarish, including Carplates AF Bold Stencil).
• By Paul Wilson: AF Screen (1999).
• By Pete McCracken: INKy-black (1994).
• By Carsten Schwesig: Nicoteen 13 AF (1998, grunge), AF Syrup (1998, slab serif).
• By Paul Farrington: Camberwell AF One (1998, grotesque sans), AF Tasience (1998), Amateur 69 AF (1998, grunge).
• By Dirk Wachowiak: AF Diwa (2002, large squarish sans), AF Generation (2002, huge squarish sans families called A, A2, A2A, Z, and ZaZ).
• By Jean-Lou Désiré: Kub AF (2002, experimental).
• By Johannes Bergerhausen and Gerard Paris-Clavel: LeBuro AF (2003, grunge in weights called Breau, Crade, Louche, Extra Crade, Demi Beau).
• By Sylvia and Daniel Janssen: AF Nitro (2004, techno family in subfamilies called Intro, Riton, Trion).
• By Anne Wehebrink: Oneline AF (1998, squarish sans).
• By Paul Kehra: PostSoviet AF (2001, geometric sans family; with Cyrillic and Latin letters; weights called Culture, Free Latvian, Free Revolution, Ideology, Revolution).
• By Simon Piehl: Spin AF (1998, squarish sans).
• By Anthony Burrill: Video Wall AF (1998).
• By Christian Küsters, based on lettering of H.T. Wijdeveld: AF Wendingen (1998, LED simulation).
• Other: AFConstants (1998), Allen, Indy 500, Interface, AFLogotype (1998).

View ACME's typefaces. Acme's typeface library. Typefaces made by Christian Küsters. MyFonts selection for ACME. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Acrylnimbus
[Tot Mischstab]

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]  ⦿

Action King

German designer of the graffiti font Los Vatos Locos (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Actiontype.de
[Tanja Diezmann]

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
[Belldorado]

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Adam Numrich
[Schriftgiesserei A. Numrich & Co]

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Adam Sommerfeld

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

Adam Twardoch (b. 1975) was raised in Tychy, Poland, and graduated from the University of Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. He worked at for Agentur GmbH, a Frankfurt/Oder-based design firm. Since 1991, Adam has advised numerous type designers on Central European extensions of their typefaces and has created localized versions of over fifty fonts. He frequently writes on type-related matters, and is the founder of Font.org, a (now defunct) website featuring articles about typography in English and Polish. Adam Twardoch is Director of Products of FontLab (since 2004), and is typographic consultant at Linotype (since 2002) and Tiro Typeworks (since 2001), and general font specialist at MyFonts (2000-2012). Since 2012 he is based in Berlin.

Adam Twardoch is working in the field of font technology, multilingual typography, CSS webfonts, Unicode and OpenType.

His typefaces:

• Andromeda SL (1997-2006). The unicase Andromeda SL font was inspired by a 1970's-like logo design for the "Andromeda" cinema in Tychy, Poland.
• Nadyezhda SL One (2007). Intended for testing of OpenType Layout features support in an application, this font is an extension of the Bitstream Vera Mono font, originally designed by Jim Lyles.
• In 2016, a team of designers at Lettersoup that includes Ani Petrova, Botio Nikoltchev, Adam Twardoch and Andreas Eigendorf designed an 8-style Latin / Greek / Cyrillic stencil typeface, Milka, which is based on an original stencil alphabet from 1979 by Bulgarian artist Milka Peikova.
• In 2017, Adam released the free 163-font collection Schticks, which is based on STIX Two.
• In 2019, Adam Twardoch published the free Robert Sans typeface family at Open Font Library. Robert Sans is a fork off Christian Robertson's Roboto font. It was further developed by Cristiano Sobral in Bert Sans (2020).

Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw and at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adaylife
[Hee Jun Kim]

Adaylife is the Berlin-based foundry of Hee Jun Kim. He published the squarish sans family ADIL Sans, the script typeface Love Letter, and the art deco typeface Rolly Pops in 2010.

In 2012, he created the super-fat counterless octagonal Korean typeface Nemo Nemo Hanguel.

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Adelina Apostolova

Adelina Apostolova is a graphic designer from Bulgaria, living and working in Germany. In 2020 she released the fat piano key stencil typeface Apura. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ADGY
[Maximilian Hesse]

Design studio of Maximilian Hesse and Marina Kraus in München, Germany. Creators of the organic sans typeface Grey (2013), which is advertized as a free typeface, but there are no download buttons. In 2013, ADGY also designed the stencil typeface Monor and the ultra-fat display typeface Meat.

Typefaces from 2014: Nova, Linea, PX (pixel face). The condensed organic sans typeface Schwabing Sans was published in 2015.

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Adolf Behrmann

Born in Tockum (near Riga, Latvia) in 1876, he died in Bialystok in 1942. German type designer who designed the classical display typeface Rundfunk at Berthold in 1928. This typeface was digitized by Nick Curtis as Radio Ranch NF. He also designed Radio and Radio Versal in 1928 at H. Berthold AG.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adolf Heimberg

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]  ⦿

Adolf Meier

Hofkonditor (court confectioner) in Detmold, Germany. Author of Schriften-Album fur Konditoren nebst Monogrammen und Tortenschildern (ca. 1910, Heinrich Killinger, Konditoreibucherverlag, Nordhausen). This wonderful book shows many decorative capital alphabets designed mainly for decorating pies, cakes, and pastries. Local PDF file for that book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolph Rusch

Or Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler, who was active in Strasbourg from 1460 until 1489. The first roman antiqua north of 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.

Revivals by Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas in 2018 during a type design workshop at ESAL Metz and Bibliothèque municipale de Metz, France:

• Rusch Bizarre 103R. A Proto-Roman first used in Strasbourg by Adolf Rusch for Raban Maur's De universo between 1467-74 (exact date unknown) and used until 1475.
• Rusch 100G, Gotico-Antiqua first used in Strasbourg by Adolf Rusch for Balbus' Catholicon, between 1470-75 (exact date unknown) and used until 1478.

Adrian Bach

Adrian Bach (Essen, Germany) created the calligraphic typeface Broken Hand Regular (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Doe

Designer in Berlin, Germany. In 2017, Justin Vin and Adrian Doe co-designed the free fluffy puffy Softa typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Frutiger

Famous type designer born in 1928 in Unterseen, Switzerland, who died in September 2015. He closely cooperated with Linotype-Hell AG, after having been artistic director at Deberny-Peignot in Paris since 1952. He established his own studio in 1962 with André Gürtler and Bruno Pfaftli. Art director for Editions Hermann, Paris 1957 to 1967. Frutiger lived near Bern, Switzerland, and was very interested in woodcuts. In 2009, Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm coedited Adrian Frutiger Typefaces The Complete Works (Birkhäuser Verlag), a 460-page opus based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland. Quote: Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. He designed over 100 fonts. Here is a partial list:

• Président (Deberny&Peignot, 1954). Digitized by Linotype in 2003.
• Delta.
• Phoebus (Deberny&Peignot, 1953).
• Element-Grotesk.
• Federduktus.
• Ondine (Deberny&Peignot, 1953-1954). The Bitstream version of this font is Formal Script 421. Adobe, Linotype and URW++ each have digital versions called Ondine. Bitstream's Calligraphic 421 is slightly different.
• Méridien (Deberny&Peignot, 1955-1957). Digitized by Adobe/Linotype in 1989.
• Caractères Lumitype.
• Univers (Deberny&Peignot, 1957). About the name, Frutiger wrote I liked the name Monde because of the simplicity of the sequence of letters. The name Europe was also discussed; but Charles Peignot had international sales plans for the typeface and had to consider the effect of the name in other languages. Monde was unsuitable for German, in which der Mond means "the moon". I suggested "Universal", whereupon Peignot decided, in all modesty, that "Univers" was the most all-embracing name!. Univers IBM Composer followed. In 2010, Linotype published Univers Next, which includes 59 Linotype Univers weights and 4 monospaced Linotype Univers Typewriter weights, and can be rented for a mere 2675 Euros. In 2018, Linotype added Univers Next Typewriter. In 2020, Linotype's Akira Kobayashi dusted off Univers Next Cyrillic and Univers Next Paneuropean.
• Egyptienne F (1955, Fonderie Deberny&Peignot; 1960, for the Photon/Lumitype machine).
• Opéra (1959-1961, Sofratype).
• Alphabet Orly (1959, Aéroport d'Orly).
• Apollo (1962-1964, Monotype): the first type designed for the new Monotype photosetting equipment.
• Alphabet Entreprise Francis Bouygues.
• Concorde (1959, Sofratype, with André Gürtler).
• Serifen-Grotesk/Gespannte Grotesk.
• Alphabet Algol.
• Astra Frutiger. A typeface variant of Frutiger licensed under Linotype. It is the font used on the highways in Switzerland.
• Serifa (1967-1968, Bauersche Giesserei). URW++ lists the serif family in its 2008 on-line catalog. Other names include OPTI Silver (Castcraft), Ares Serif 94, and Sierra. Bitstream published the digital typeface Serifa BT. But it is also sold by Adobe, Tilde, Linotype, URW++, Scangraphic, and Elsner & Flake. The slab serif is robust and is based on the letterforms of Univers.
• OCR-B (1966-1968, European Computer Manufacturers Association).
• Alphabet EDF-GDF (1959, Électricité de France, Gaz de France).
• Katalog.
• Devanagari (1967) and Tamil (1970), both done for Monotype Corporation.
• Alpha BP (1965, British Petroleum&Co.).
• Dokumenta (1969, Journal National Zeitung Suisse).
• Alphabet Facom (1971).
• Alphabet Roissy (1970, Aéroport de Roissy Charles de Gaulle).
• Alphabet Brancher (1972, Brancher).
• Iridium (1972, Stempel). A didone with slight flaring.
• Alphabet Métro (1973, RATP): for the subway in Paris.
• Alphabet Centre Georges Pompidou. The CGP typeface (first called Beaubourg) used in the Centre Georges Pompidou from 1976-1994 is by Hans-Jörg Hunziker and Adrian Frutiger, and was developed as part of the visual identity program of Jean Widmer. It is said that André Baldinger digitized it in 1997.
• Frutiger (1975-1976, Stempel, with Hans-Jörg Hunziker). In 1999, Frutiger Next was published by Linotype. In 2009, that was followed by Neue Frutiger (a cooperation between Frutiger and Linotype's Akira Kobayashi). In fact, Frutiger, the typeface was made for the Charles De Gaulle Airport in 1968 for signage---it was originally called Roissy, and had to be similar to Univers. It was released publically as Frutiger in 1976. The modern Bitstream version is called Humanist 777. Frutiger Next Greek (with Eva Masoura) won an award at TDC 2006. Other digital implementations of Frutiger: M690 (SoftMaker), Quebec Serial (SoftMaker), Frutus (URW), Provencale (Autologic), Frontiere (Compugraphic), Freeborn (Scangraphic), Siegfried (Varityper). In 2018, under the aegis of Akira Kobayashi, the Monotype Design studio published the 150-language superfamily Neue Frutiger World (including coverage for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese).
• Glypha (1979, Stempel). See Gentleman in the Scangraphic collection).
• Icône (1980-1982, Stempel, Linotype). Digitized by Linotype in 2003.
• Breughel (1982, Stempel; 1988, Linotype).
• Dolmen.
• Tiemann.
• Versailles (1983, Stempel).
• Linotype Centennial (1986). Based on Morris Fuller Benton's Clarendon typeface Century, Linotype Centennial was designed for Linotype's 100th birthday.
• Avenir (1988, Linotype). In 2004, Linotype Avenir Next was published, under the supervision of Akira Kobayashi, and with the help of a few others. In 2021, the Monotype team released Avenir Next Paneuropean (56 styles, by Akira Kobayashi). Avenir Next World, released by Linotype in 2021, is an expansive family of fonts that offers support for more than 150 languages and scripts. The subfamilies include Avenir Next Hebrew, Avenir Next Thai, Avenir Next Cyrillic, Avenir Next Arabic and Avenir Next Georgian. Avenir Next World contains 10 weights, from UltraLight to Heavy.

  Contributors besides Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi: Anuthin Wongsunkakon (Thai), Yanek Iontef (Hebrew), Akaki Razmadze (Georgian), Nadine Chahine (Arabic), Toshi Omagari (Arabic) and Elena Papassissa (Greek, Armenian). Lovely poster by Ines Vital (2011).

• Westside.
• Vectora (1991, Linotype).
• Linotype Didot (1991). See also Linotype Didot eText Pro (2013), which was optimized by Linotype for use on screens and small devices.
• Herculanum (1989, Linotype): a stone age font.
• Shiseido (1992).
• Frutiger Capitalis (2006, Linotype): a further exploration in the style of Herculanum, Pompeijana and Rusticana. Linotype trademarked that name even though at least five fonts by the name Capitalis already exist.
• Pompeijana (1993, Linotype).
• Rusticana (1993, Linotype).
• Frutiger Stones (1998, Linotype) and Frutiger Symbols.
• Frutiger Neonscript.
• Courier New, based on Howard Kettler's Courier, was one of Frutiger's projects he was involved in ca. 2000.
• AstraFrutiger (2002): a new signage typeface for the Swiss roads. Erich Alb comments: With a Frutiger condensed Type and illuminated signs during night it is mutch better readable.
• Nami (2008) is a chiseled-stone sans family, made with the help of Linotype's Akira Kobayashi.
• Neue Frutiger (2009, with Akira Kobayashi) has twice as many weights as the original Frutiger family.
• In 2019, the Linotype team released variable fonts for Frutiger's main typeface families, Avenir Next Variable, Neue Frutiger Variable, and Univers Next Variable.

Frutiger's books include Type Sign Symbol and Signs and Symbols. Their Design and Meaning (1989, with Andrew Bluhm, published by Studio Editions, London; Amazon link).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Adrian Frutiger, sa carrière française (2008) is Adèle Houssin's graduation thesis at Estienne.

Klingspor link. Wikipedia link. View Adrian Frutiger's typefaces.

View some digital versions of Avenir. Vimeo movie on Frutiger by Christine Kopp and Christoph Frutiger entitled "Der Mann von Schwarz und weiss: Adrian Frutiger". More Vimeo movies. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Spiegel
[912lab]

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Adriana Esteve Hernandez
[Adriprints]

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Adriana Lessmöllmann

Illustrator / designer in Trier, Germany. She created the display typeface Maki (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriprints
[Adriana Esteve Hernandez]

Adriana Hernandez (b. Miami, FL) established Adriprints in 2008. She is located in Munich, Germany.

Her fonts include Kicks (2012, a fun hand-printed typeface for children's books), Stitching Kit (2010, dings), Fiddleshticks (2009, linocut), Sorbet and Sorbet Wide (2009, like architectural letters), Fancypants (2010, curly lettering), Stitchin Crochet (2009, dingbats), Trellis (2009, hand-printed), and Draft Punk (2009, comic book style).

Font Squirrel link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adult Human Male
[Alex Hy]

Adult Human Male is the type foundry of Malaysian designer Alex Hy, who is located in Berlin or Ireland. His Twitter account says that he is New York, Paris and Coolock. His Dafont account calls him Irish. Whatever. Alex has two aspects, a commercial one, expressed in his commercial foundry Adult Human Male, and a free one via his Squack site on Dafont.

The commercial Alex created the grunge stencil typeface Butterworth (2011), the hand-drawn Teksi (2011), the monoline squarish family Ebdus (2011), Valis (2011, futuristic), and the thin avant garde monoline typeface New Slang (2011). Gordito (2011) is a graffiti style bubble font that says Smurf.

In 2012, Alex published the poster caps typeface Areaman, Stink Lines (multilined typeface) and Penang (art deco signage typeface seen on Penang by the creator). Straights Light is a beautiful pair of bilined all caps typefaces. Dale Kids is a children's book typeface. Hokkien (2012) is an art deco typeface with Chinese influences. Mister Mustard is a chubby rounded art deco typeface. Barkley (2012) is a textured caps typeface with a chalk board feel. Liner Notes (2012) is a bilined hand-drawn typeface. Bartleby (2012) is a hand-drawn all caps display font.

The free font foundry Squack has the hand-printed typefaces Barker Allcaps (2012), Scrapist (2012, sketched), Billy Boy (2011, 3d), Quito Chicken (2011, 3d), Fred Wild West (2011, a grungy western face), Coolock Black (2011), Zapftig (2011), Ringworm (2011), Suicide Draft (2011), National Granite (2011, a 3d stone chisel face), Whiskey Fingers (2010), Wank Hands (2010) and Middle Man (2010), and the irregular typefaces Zapftig (2011), Shock Corridor, Pollo Asado, Middle Woman, Ghost Words, Late Puberty, Parrannoyed (2010, ransom note face), the hairline typeface Rexic (2011), Black Grapes (2012), Chump (2012, hand-printed capitals), Areman OT (2012), and the grungy Skidmarks (2012).

Typefaces from 2013: Salas (a chunky cartoon face), Rabid (a crayon font), Strokin (a great brush face---part charcoal part paint strokes), Bevel Hands, Bunk (a layered beveled type system absed on a monoline fat rounded sans, Bunk Base 2), Spengler (inline face), Vastra (Bauhaus style, organic), Swingers (curly and cartoonish), Chump Change, Treves Sans (crayon face), Quincey (2017).

We read that the fonts are designed by EircomTest. Aka Squack, MiddleMan and Alex H.

Dafont link. Creative Market link. Twitter link.

Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

AgenturBM
[Björn Kohl]

Aschaffenburg, Germany-based designer of the modular typefaces Butch (2018), Chiron (2018) and Anthony (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agnes von Beöczy

Librito.de is the web outfit of Agnes von Beöczy and Florian Zietz, who are located in Hamburg, Germany. They are involved in graphic and type design, calligraphy and illustration. Designers of FF Headz (dingbats), Cutz (informal script that is way better than Comic Sans), Segmenta (2008, a modular, octagonal typeface designed by Zietz), and Zansibar (a great type project concerned wit the reconstruction of an old map alphabet). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Agnese Pagliano
[Little Asshole]

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Aidfonts (was: Antropos)
[Lutz Baar]

Lutz Baar (b. Berlin, 1946) ran Antropos. He is a calligrapher/type designer who runs a design studio called Miraculus Artwork in Gothenburg, Sweden. At the now defunct Antropos site, he used to offer Antropos (2002), a free prehistoric-lettering font. He is a contributor to the anthroposophic style of thinking and creating.

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]  ⦿

Aileena Manja

German designer of all caps typefaces in 2019 that have art deco and art nouveau influences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart

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 until 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]  ⦿

Akalollip
[Loïc Sander]

Loïc Sander (Akalollip) is a Strasbourg-based graphic and type designer, b. Germany. He is associated with Production Type.

Creator of the free font family Fengardo Neue (2012, Velvetyne Type Foundry and Open Font Library), a (very) humanist sans with a Gillian lower case g.

In 2015, he designed the didone typeface family Trianon at Production Type, in Text, Grande and Caption sub-families. Benedikt Bramböck writes: Weighing in at a total number of forty-two styles spread out over four size-specific families, it is certainly not another blunt revival of a Didot typeface. Even more remarkable than the size of the type system is the stylistic scope it covers, including elaborate italics, monolinear Lights, heavily slab-serif-flavored Caption cuts, and Grande styles that verge on becoming stencils---all referencing different works from the golden era of the Didots. With this pluralism of style and character, Trianon almost commands you to use it in all the "wrong"ways, exhibiting flamboyant shapes, flexibility, and individuality. In 2016, he added the gorgeous fat didone typeface Trianon Normande, which was done with the aid of Sandra Carrera, Roxane Gataud and Yoann Minet at Production Type.

Fontsquirrel link. Loïc Sander at Velvetyne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akiem Helmling

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 studied from 1998-2000 at the KABK. He co-designed all Underware fonts: Dolly, Bello, Sauna (2002; +Sauna Mono Pro), Liza (2009), Auto (1, 2 and 3) (2004-2014), Unibody 8 (free) and Fakir (a blackletter typeface). In 2015, Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling and Sami Kortemäki published the stencil family Tripper Pro.

In 2017, Underware developed the super-adaptive and parametric typeface family Duos Pro.

MyFonts page. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Speaker at ATypI 2017 in Montreal. At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling introduced the high order interpolation system for fonts called HOI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Akira Kobayashi

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. Interview. His numerous awards include the Type Directors Club awards in 1998 (ITC Woodland), 1999 (the art deco styled ITC Silvermoon, and ITC Japanese Garden), and 2000 (FF Clifford), the 1999 Kyrillitsa award for ITC Japanese Garden, the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library (for the informal and quirky 4-style Linotype Conrad (1999): Linotype states that Kobayashi took his inspiration from a print typeface of the 15th century created by two German printers named Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz), and the 5th Morisawa International Typeface Competition (in which he received an Honourable Mention for his typeface Socia Oldstyle). CV at bukvaraz. Interview in 2006. His typefaces:

• Helvetica Neue eText Pro (2013).
• Dainippon Screen: the kanji font Hiragino Mincho.
• ITC: ITC Scarborough (1998), ITC Luna, ITC Silvermoon, ITC Japanese Garden, ITC Seven Treasures (1998), ITC Magnifico Daytime and Nighttime (1999), ITC Vineyard (1999), ITC Woodland Demi (1997).
• Adobe: Calcite Pro (sans-serif italic at Adobe, in OpenType format).
• Linotype: Akko Sans and Akko Rounded (2011; Akko Rounded is situated between DIN, Isonorm and Cooper Black, while Akko Sans is an elliptical organic sans related to both DIN and Neue Helvetica), Akko Condensed (2015), Akko Pro Condensed (2015), Akko Pan-European (2015), Eurostile Next (2008, after Aldo Novarese's original), Eurostile Candy and Eurostile Unicase, Cosmiqua (2007, a lively didone serif family based on 19th century English advertising types, and in particular Miller&Richard's Caledonian Italic), Metro Office (2006, a severe sans after a family of Dwiggins from the 20s), Neuzeit Office (2006, modeled after the original sans serif family Neuzeit S, which was produced by D. Stempel AG and the Linotypes design studio in 1966. Neuzeit S itself was a redesign of D. Stempel AG's DIN Neuzeit, created by Wilhelm Pischner between 1928 and 1939), DIN Next (2009, based on the classic DIN 1451), Times Europa Office (2006, modeled after the original serif family produced by Walter Tracy and the Linotypes design studio in 1974. A redesign of the classic Times New Roman typeface, Times Europa was created as its replacement for the Times of London newspaper. In contrast to Times New Roman, Times Europa has sturdier characters and more open counter spaces, which help maintain readability in rougher printing conditions. Times Europa drastically improved on the legibility of the bold and italic styles of Times New Roman.), Trump Mediaeval Office (2006), Linotype Conrad (1999), Optima Nova (2002, a new version of Optima that includes 40 weights, half of them italic), Linotype Avenir Next (2003, 48 weights developed with its original creator, Adrian Frutiger, and to be used also by the city of Amsterdam from 2003 onwards), Avenir Next Rounded (2012, in conjunction with Sandra Winter), Avenir Next Paneuropean (2021: 56 styles), Zapfino Extra, Palatino Sans and Palation Sans Informal (2006, with Hermann Zapf; won an award at TDC2 2007). Frutiger Serif (2008) is based on Frutiger's Meridien and the Frutiger (sans) family. Diotima Classic (2008, with Gudrun Zapf von Hesse) revives Gudrun's Diotima from 1951. In 2008-2009, Akira Kobayashi and Tom Grace unified and extended Trade Gothic to Trade Gothic Next (17 styles). Neue Frutiger (2009, with Adrian Frutiger) has twice as many weights as the orifinal Frutiger family. Later in 2009, the extensive DIN Next Pro, co-designed with Sandra Winter, saw the light. I assume that this was mainly done so as to meet the competition of FontShop's FF DIN (by Albert-Jan Pool).
• Fontshop: Acanthus (2000, large Fontfont family), FF Clifford (gorgeous text face!). In 2009, he and Hermann Zapf cooperated on Virtuosa Classic, a calligraphic script that updates and revives Zapf's own 1952-1953 creation, Virtuosa.
• Typebox: TX Lithium (2001, The Typebox).
• Oddities: Skid Row (1990), Socia Oldstyle.
• Suntory corporate types (2003-2005), developed with the help of Matthew Carter and Linotype from Linotype originals: Suntory Syntax, Suntory Sabon, Suntory Gothic, Suntory Mincho.
• In 2014, Akira Kobayashi, Sandra Winter and Tom Grace joined forces to publish DIN Next Slab at Linotype.
• Alexey Chekulaev and Akira Kobayashi (Monotype) won a Granshan 2014 award for the Cyrillic typeface SST.
• In 2016, Akira Kobayashi and Sandra Winter co-designed Applied Sans (32 styles) at Monotype. It is in the tradition of vintage sans typeface such as Venus and Ideal Grotesk and competes with Rod McDonald's splendid Classic Grotesque (2011-2016)..
• Member of a type design team at Monotype that created the Tazugane Gothic typeface in 2017. Designed by Akira Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Yamada and Ryota Doi of the Monotype Studio, the Tazugane Gothic typeface offers ten weights and was developed to complement Neue Frutiger. It is the first original Japanese typeface in Monotype's history. Followed in 2018 by the more restrained Tazugane Info. Variable fonts published in 2022: Tazugane Gothic Variable, Tazugane Info Variable.
• SST (2017). A set of fonts for Latin, Cyrillic, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic and Japanese.
• DIN Next Stencil (2017). Developed together with Sabina Chipara.
• DIN Next Decorative (mostly textured styles such as Rust, Slab Rust, Stencil Rust and Shadow).
• Univers Next Cyrillic and Univers Next Paneuropean, both released in 2020, extending Adrian Frutiger's Univers.
• Shorai Sans (2022) and Shorai Sans Variable (2022). A 10-style Latin / Japanese sans by Akira Kobayashi, Monotype Studio and Ryota Doi, designed as a companion typeface to Avenir Next.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Rounded sans in Japan.

View Akiro Kobayashi's typefaces.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Eurostile Next review. Linotype link. Monotype link. MyFonts interview in 2017. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aktiengesellschaft für Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau (or: AG für Schriftgiesserei)

Foundry in Offenbach, Germany. Their main specimen book is Haupt-Probe über Schriftgiesserei-Erzeugnisse und Messing-Material (1911, Offenbach am Main). House typefaces include the blackletters Angelsächsisch, Archiv-Gotisch (1909), Asta (1902), Freigotisch, and Schöffer-Gotisch (ca. 1900). Heinrich (Heinz) König made the blackletter typeface Germania (1903). Eduard Brox designed Moderne Alt-Fraktur (1907; some give the date 1910). Albert Christian Auspurg created the blackletter typefaces Apart (1911) and Fraktur-Kursiv (1923). Their art nouveau typefaces include Apollo (ca. 1900), Inserat Kursiv, Neptun, Tedesca.

For digital revivals, see Appeal DT (2007, Malcolm Wooden, a revival of Apollo) and RMU Neptun (2021, Ralph M. Unger). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Christoph Auspurg

German type designer, b. Frankfurt am Main, 1868, d. Leipzig, 1943. His oeuvre:

• At C.E. Weber: Start (1934).
• At Ludwig&Mayer: Aristokrat (1912), Miracle (1931, a script face), Rasse (1924), Schöndeutsch (1934), Reklame-Fraktur (1914; revived in 2016 by Ralph M. Unger as Reklame Fraktur), the gorgeous long-legged Mona Lisa (1930; digital version by Pat Hickson, 1992), the blackletter typeface Deutsche Kraft (1915), Brigitte (1935), the display roman typeface Krimhilde (1933-1934; with Schwabacher-style capitals, though).
• At Schriftguss: Lido (1936, script face) and Miami (1934). Digital revivals of Krimhilde were done by Ralf Herrmann (as Krimhilde, 2018) and Klaus Burkhardt (also as Krimhilde). Rick Banks's F37 Attila was inspired by Krimhilde. Miami was revived in 2020 by Ralph M. Unger as Elbflorenz.
• At Benjamin and Krebs: Brentano Fraktur (1915-1916), Federzug Antiqua (1913), Nürnberger Kanzlei (1906), Schönbrunn (1928), Trajan Versalien (1928).
• At Genzsch&Heyse, he did Hans Sachs Gotisch (1911, revived in 2005 by Petra Heidorn; the typeface also appeared at Ludwig & Wagner, where some date the Initialen style at 1902---Hans Sachs Gotisch was named after Hans Sachs from Nürnberg, 1494-1576, who was a master singer and songwriter), Domina (1929), Souverän (1913).
• At Haas: Castor (1924), Pollux (1925).
• At Trennert: Trocadero Kursiv (1927, a script font with flourished capitals). In 2010, it was extended and revived by Ralph Unger as Trocadero Pro.
• At Berthold: the peculiar Messe Grotesk family (1921-1927) and the shaded titling typeface Vesta (1926, a Mexican simulation face; for a digitization, see Visillo Adornado (2006, Nick Curtis) or Venezuela RR (2000, Pat Hickson at Rabbit Reproductions Type foundry, aka Red Rooster)). The Messe Grotesk design was revived by Nick Curtis as Troglodyte NF (2006-2011) and by Paul Hickson as Messe Grotesk (1997, Red Rooster).
• At AG für Schriftgiesserei in Offenbach: the blackletter typefaces Apart (1911) and Fraktur-Kursiv (1923).
• At Schelter & Gisecke: Kolibri (1915; for a digital version of this multiline open typeface caps face, see Trochilida NF (2012, Nick Curtis)).
• At Berling: the italic open capitals typeface Berling Kortversaler.
• At Lettergieterij Amsterdam: Albert or Select (ca. 1936). Revived by Paul Hickson as Honduras RR at Red Rooster.

Albert Falckenberg & Comp

Magdeburg-based foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Kapr

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. Obituary by Harald Suess. Page at Klingspor. MyFonts page. Catalog of Albert Kapr's typefaces

He designed these typefaces:

• Faust-Antiqua (1958-1959), or just Faust. This right-footed serif typeface suffers from the ugly duck syndrom. Nevertheless, it inspired Nick Curtis to design Kaprice NF (2010). In 1993, Steve Jackaman revived it as Faust RR.
• Leipzig (with Otto Erler in 1963). A font with large x-height.
• Leipziger-Antiqua (1959). Revived by Tim Ahrens in 2004 as JAF Lapture. It was also digitized--close to the original and under the original name--by Ralph Unger at URW in 2005. And it was 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, Typoart, with Werner Schulze).
• Magna Kyrillisch (1975).
• Circa 1975, he created Garamond Cyrillic at Typoart.

A specialist of blackletter, he was passionate about Gotische Bastarda.

Author of these books:

• Fraktur: Form und Geschichte der gebrochenen Schriften (1993, H. Schmidt, Mainz).
• F.H.Ernst Schneidler Schriftentwerfer, Lehrer, Kalligraph (SchumacherGebler a.o., München, 2002). Co-authors: Max Caflisch, Albert Kapr, Antonia Weiss and Hans Peter Willberg.
• 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).
• Schriftkunst. Geschichte, Anatomie und Schönheit der lateinischenn Buchstaben (Dresden, 1971).
• Schrift- und Buchkunst (VEB Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig, 1982).

Albert Knab

Type designer (b. Oberlauringen/Unterfranken, 1870, d. 1948). He created Edelgotisch (1901, J.G. Schelter&Giesecke). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Schiemann
[Font Pincushion]

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Albert Wilhelm Kafemann
[J. G. Francke Nachfolger]

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Albert Windisch

Designer (b. Friedberg, 1878, d. 1967) of Windisch Kursiv (1917, Klingspor). He lived in Frankfurt where he taught design at the Kunstgewerbeschule. Author of Die künstlerische Drucktype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert-Jan Pool
[FF DIN]

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Albert-Jan Pool

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 and 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.

In 2022, FontFont released a major set of updates and extensions of the FF DIN family, all co-designed by Albert-Jan Pool and Antonia Cornelius. These include:

• FF DIN Slab and>FF DIN Slab Variable.
• FF DIN Stencil (with Achaz Reuss) and FF DIN Stencil Variable.
• FF DIN Paneuropean (with Achaz Reuss, Aleksei Chekulaev and Panos Haratzopoulos) and FF DIN Paneuropean Variable (with Achaz Reuss, Aleksei Chekulaev, Antonio Cornelius and Panos Haratzopoulos).

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 entitled FF DIN, the history of a contemporary typeface in the book Made with FontFont. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Legibility according to DIN 1450.

Pic.

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Albrecht Dürer

Born and died in Nuremberg, Germany, 1471-1528. Painter, wood carver and copper engraver extraordinaire, famous for many great geometrical and structured capitals and proportioned designs, carried out with compass and ruler. Example from 1524. Another example, ca. 1500. Best known for the books on the geometry of letters, Unterweysung der Messung [A Course on the Art of Measurement] [or: Of the Just Shaping of Letters], published in 1525. See here.

Images of his work: his famous set of German Renaissance Capitals (1525), Gothic Capitals, German Minuscule, his famous rhinoceros (1515) and his blackletter type Dürerfraktur (1519).

Digital typefaces based on Duerer's work:

• Terry Wüdenbachs at P22: P22 Durer Caps (2004).
• MichelM at URW++: Hands on Albrecht (2005).
• Amy E. Conger: Duerer (2006).
• SoftMaker: Albrecht Duerer Fraktur Pro (2016). A revival of Duerer's ornamental blackletter.
• Christopher Adams: Just Letters (2012, blackletter). This was based on Albrecht Duerer's Of the Just Shaping of Letters (1525).
• Alan Hoenig: The Computer Duerer fonts (1990). A set of Metafont typefaces.
• Dieter Steffmann: Duerer Gotisch (2001).
• Jeff Jackson: JGJDurerGothic (1997).
• Gilles Le Corre: 1525 Durer Initials (2010).
• David nalle: Albrecht Durer Gothic.
• Martin Lorenz and Joan Pastor: VLNL TpDuro (2019). A blackletter.
• Manfred Klein. The geometrical overlays reminiscent of Duerer are another recurrent theme in Manfred Klein's work. Fonts directly or indirectly related to Duerer's compass-and-ruler constructions made by Manfred Klein include DancingVampyrish, GrafBoldBold, GrafCirculum, GrafCirculumBricks, GrafObliqueItalic, GrafRoundishMedium, GridConcreteDue, GridConcreteLogoable, OldConstructedCaps, RodauButtons, RodauButtonsInverse, RodgauHeads, RodgauerFisheyes, RodgauerOne, RodgauerOneRoundMedium, RodgauerThree, RodgauerThreeRoundedMedium, RodgauerTwo, RodgauerTwoRounded-Medium, RomanGridCaps, SketchesByDuerer-Inverse, SketchesByDuerer, TheRoots, XPCrazy-Light, XPFourTwoContourMedium, XperimentypoFS, XperimentypoFSBlack, XperimentypoFSWhite, XperimentypoFourBRound, XperimentypoFourCRoundInvers, XperimentypoFourRound, XperimentypoNr1, XperimentypoNr1Oblique, XperimentypoStripes-One, XperimentypoStripes-Two, XperimentypoThree-B-Square, XperimentypoThree-C-Square, XperimentypoThree-Crazy, XperimentypoThreeSquares, XperimentypoTwo, XperimentypoTwoCrazy, XperimentypoTwoStripes. Download page. Download all these fonts in onze zip file.

Albrecht Seemann

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. Download at Klingspor of the original volume from 1926, and the addenda published in 1927. 1929, 1930, 1933/1935, 1936/1937, und 1938/1939 under the name Nachträge. Emil Wetzig (Leipzig) helped with the production.

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Aleksandra Samulenkova

Aleksandra Samulenkova (b. Latvia) studied visual communication at the Latvian Art Academy in Riga and at Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin, where she took a type design course with Luc(as) de Groot. In 2012 Aleksandra graduated from the Type and Media program at KABK, Den Haag.

Aleksandra's graduating project Pilot is an angular display typeface with German expressionist influences. It won the first prize as a titling face at The Fine Press Association's inaugural Student Type Competition, and won an award in the TDC Typeface Design competition in 2017. From 2012 until early 2017 Aleksandra worked as a type designer at LucasFonts in Berlin. In the beginning of 2017 she moved to the Netherlands to work independently.

Aleksandra's retail typeface in the Bold Monday catalog: Pilot (2017). She also designed Necktie.

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Diacritics as a Means of Self-Identification. In that talk, she looked at several Eastern European nations that were created during the 19th century, and in particulat, Latvia.

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Alessandro Malcotti

During his Masters studies at Politecnico di Milano, he spent a year in Berlin where he designed the blackletterish typeface The Raven (2015) in a course taught by Luc(as) de Groot at Fachhochschule Potsdam. Earlier, in 2012, he created the condensed octagonal typeface Fiat that is based on Fiat's logo. Fiat was a school project completed with Cecilia Negri and Virginia Nardelli. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessandro Sommer

During his studies, Bielefeld, Germany-based Alessandro Sommer developed the symmetric experimental typeface Otto in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessia Sistori

During her communication design studies, Alessia Sistori (Berlin, Germany) created Clarity Font (2013, thin and geometric) and Pommesensalade (2013, a rhombic font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessio Leonardi
[BuyMyFonts (or: BMF)]

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Alex Glatz

Illustrator and cartoonist Alex Glatz (Alex Glatz Studio, Nuremberg, Germany) designed a handcrafted typeface in 2017, as well as a school script in the style of Deutsche Normalschrift (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Hy
[Adult Human Male]

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Alex Rich

Type designer at ACME. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Rütten
[Formsport]

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Alex Schnaible

German art director. In 2019, he published the 500-icon font Speakons. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Volmer
[Leftover Lasagne]

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Alexander Alexandrowitsch Roth
[Neue (or: Neue Foundry)]

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Alexander Beck

Mainz, Germany-based creator of Fadista (2013) during his studies at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz. Calling Fadista another fucking hip and trendy experimental grotesque---which we call hipster typefaces in my pages---, he explains: The main references were letterings from sheet music to the traditional Portuguese fado created by the artist Stuart Carvalhais (1887-1961). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Branczyk
[Face 2 Face (or: F2F)]

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Alexander Dosiehn

German designer Alexander Dosiehn created Liga Sans (2001, Linotype). It was part of his graduate thesis at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Ertle

Hamburg-based communication designer. He created the experimental typeface Kubik (2012).

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Alexander Fritsch
[Loudar]

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Alexander Hermann

Berlin-based designer of the counterless modular headline font Viertel (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Kaiser

German designer of Drawvetica Mini (2012, sketched).

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Alexander Koch

Author of 600 Monogramme Und Zeichen (Darmstadt, 1920). Local download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Koch

Designer of Damned Dingbats EF in 1993. He was associated with Germany's Apply Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Lange

Karlsruhe-based software developer. Creator of the large (and free) Unicode font Quivira (2005). It covers mathematics, chess, astrological symbols, arrows, fists, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Tifinagh, Coptic, emoticons, Vai, and Braille, to name just a few ranges. Alexander graduated in computer science at the Hochschule Mannheim University of Applied Sciences (degree: Diplom-Informatiker (UAS)). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Peifer

Trier, Germany-based designer of the compass-and-ruler font Camp (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Roth

Creator of Red Dot (2007, a dot matrix font: free if you ask). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Rühl

Alexander Rühl studied at Kunstschule Alsterdamm and worked for URW. Presently, he runs the graphic design studio Ruehl Design.

Creator of the flared text family ITC Lennox Book in 1996: ITC Lennox Bold (1996), ITC Lennox Book (1996), ITC Lennox Medium (1996).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Selg

Augsburg, Germany-based designer (at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts) of the fashion mag typeface Clara Antiqua (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Sperl

German designer (aka laynecom) at FontStruct in 2008 of band, blokk_2, maiden, substance, Fette Serif (fat, octagonal), Runde Pixelig, Velvet, Thin Sans, Constr, Clear Serif, Blokk.

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 typeface ever made by anyone using FontStruct), Bencraft.

Fonts from 2013: Meadow Bold, Lush Capitals, SwiftStroke, Its Slab To Be Square, Mellow Doubt, Ligure Black, Beige Organic, Trafo, Trafo Evolution, Codester Mono (a programming font), Swash Buckle, Nova Thin Extended (a hairline sans), Meson Sans, Burgwald Exquisite Bold Condensed, Editoriale, Coalescimen, A La Carte, Hampton Italic, Baby Elephant (fat grotesque).

Fonts from 2014: Terminal One (a basic sans), Fanomino, Fontris (like Tetris), Schlaraffenland (+Variant: great rounded sans family), Crystalline, Tick Brush, Manuale Neue Bold, Terminal One, Sanspura, Italics Study, Mundane Black Extended, Heavy Grain, Wineshop Stencil, Folds and Rhizones, Viva Las Inline.

Fonts from 2015: Augustine, Coleridge, Framtid, Licht-Sans, Quire-Bold, Quire, Static-Grotesk, Tattoo-Parlour, The-Gift-Serif, Tuileries-Black, Usual-Type, Ziseleur, Zungenschlag, Blackesteverblack.

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Alexander Stephenson

Alexander Stephenson is an Anglo-German Art Director and type designer who specializes in holistic brand design-systems. He studied graphic design at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and Central Saint Martins in London. After working for twelve years in the advertising industry in both Paris and Berlin, he became an independent graphic and type designer. In 2020, he designed a 12-style mixed-genre fragile-looking sans typeface family called Acies. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Tibus

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.

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Alexandra Schwarzwald

Type designer who joined Neue as business partner in October 2020. She was born and raised in Berlin, Germany, and studied at HTW University of Applied Science. She worked at FontShop International as a font technician. Subsequently Alexandra supported Monotype's font marketing teams for brands such as FontShop, FontFont, Linotype, MyFonts and Fonts.com. In 2018 she became a full-time employee of the Monotype London Office holding the position of a Senior Graphic Designer.

Designer of Neue UXUI Icons (2020, at Neue), a seven-style set of icon fonts. Each font in turn contains 1155 icons covering areas such as office equipment, social media, controls, layout, music, navigation and weather, in addition to about 200 arrows. She added the 6-icon set Neue OS Icons later in 2020. In 2021, she released Neue UXUI Icons Rounded.

With Alexander Roth, she designed the soft versions of Roth's Neue Radial family in 2021: Neue Radial Soft A, Neue Radial Soft B (18 styles), Neue Radial Soft C, Neue Radial Soft D. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Luengas
[Alexis Luengas Zimmer]

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.

His main project in 2014 was Cavatina, a font for writing music: Cavatina is my misuse (to put it nicely) of the OpenType font architecture, inspired by Travis Kochel's FF Chartwell. Similarly, the font relies on contextual alternates and ligatures to take care of the formatting and allow the support of a wide range of musical grammar. Among others, it is possible to write over four octaves of different notes, key and time signatures, barlines, accidentals, articulations as well as ornamentation, providing a system robust enough to allow fast musical composition. Additionally, I have written an open-source converter that translates the Cavatina text files to MIDI and MusicXML. A browser based text editor with integrated MIDI playback is also provided for those who don't have a Mac. Cavatina exploits the liga, calt and gsub rules in Opentype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Luengas Zimmer
[Alexis Luengas]

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Alfons Muntean

German designer (b. 1977) who lives in Karlsruhe. Dafont link. Creator of the shaded serif typeface 404error (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfons Schneider

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 typeface Franken Deutsch (1934-1939, Ludwig Wagner), and the didone family Pergamon Antiqua (1937, Ludwig Wagner; +Mager, +schmalhalbfett, +halbfett, +fett, +schmalfett), and 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.

Pergamon was digitally revived in 2016 by Coen Hofmann at URW++ as Fontforum Pergamon. More than a decade before that, Softmaker created its own digital revival, P700 Deco. Franken Deutsch was revived in 2015 by Peter Wiegel as CAT Franken Deutsch. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfred Finsterer

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. Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfred Mahlau

German (?) designer who made the avant garde typeface Mahlau in 1926, which was in the Elsner&Flake and Scangraphic collections. The Elsner&Flake typeface dates from 1986. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfred Riedel

Type designer in Freiburg (b. Waldkirch, 1906; d. Freiburg, 1969) who was a pupil of Rudolf Koch, and studied at the Badischen Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe. He designed books for Verlag Herder from 1935 onwards. His typefaces include the fat face Domino (Ludwig&Mayer, 1954). A digital revival was created by Nick Curtis in 2007, called Idle Fancy NF.

His typefaces Adamas and Adamas Unziale (1963, for Herder Verlag) were made into a phototype by Monotype.

Sample of blackletter calligraphy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alfred Smeets

Designer at Germany's Apply Design of RIO (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfred Tilp

German type designer and artist, b. Bühmen 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:

• At URW++: the Tilp Bardi sans serif family.
• The Markin font family (1999, Linotype).
• At Elsner and Flake: TilpSerif EF (2000).

Alfredo Ascari

Graphic designer in Berlin. In 2016, he designed the modular multiline typeface Bauhaus (2016) following the principles of architectural modernism. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Pawelczyk

During her studies under Lucas DeGroot in Berlin, Alice Pawelczyk created the techno typeface Technika (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alina Sava
[Fonts Arena]

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Alma Tatjana Neu
[Tata Tatze]

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Almut Schmitt

During her graphic design studies in Trier, Germany, Almut Schmitt designed the paper-fold typeface Ganeo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alois Ganslmeier

German type designer. With Andy Jörder and Jörg Herz, he created the ultra-fat constructivist family Coma (2010, Volcano). Klingspor link. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alois Ludwig

Brno-born architect (1872) who worked in München and Vienna and died in 1969. Some of his lettering. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabet Type

In December 2014, font engineer Andreas Eigendorf and type designer Stephan Müller founded a font-production, type-technology, and knowledge hub based in Berlin called Alphabet Type. Its expertise and custom tools help type designers and foundries turn their typefaces into fully functional software. As of early 2018, it employed these technical type specialists and font engineers: Andreas Eigendorf, Stephan Müller, Philipp Acsany, Monika Bartels, Anke Bonk, Benedikt Bramböck, Sophie Caron, Gergo Kokai and Paul Spehr. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alte Schriften
[Susuanne Ulmke]

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]  ⦿

Alte Schwabacher

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), Genzsch&Heyse (1835), Berthold, C.F. Rühl (1903). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Althhochdeutsches Wörterbuch

The TimesGerman family in truetype (Times with special symbols for a German dictionary). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alt-Katholiken in Deutschland
[Achim Stump]

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]  ⦿

Amina Urkumbayeva

During her studies at Btk University of Applied Science in Berlin, Germany, Amina Urkumbayeva designed the rune-inspired hipster typeface Runotype (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amir Asgari

Iranian graphic designer who lived in Turkey and after a stint in Washington Park, WA, he is now based in Germany. He graduated from B.A Hacettepe University in Ankara in 2012, and from the Mirak Fine Art School in Tabriz, Iran, in 2005. His typefaces:

• The pixel typeface Overpixel (2012).
• Qewek (2021). A thin slab serif.

Ana Laura Ferraz

Brazilian graphic designer at Plau (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), who lives in Köln, Germany.

In 2019, she co-designed Muda, a corporate typeface for the fashion brand Oficina Muda with Carlos Mignot, Gabriel Menezes and Rodrigo Saiani.

In 2021, Ana Laura Ferraz, Valter Costa, Carlos Mignot and Rodrigo Saiani designed the handcrafted black poster and branding typeface Vinila for the identity of grammar teacher Eduardo Valladares' personal brand EDU VLLD (Edu stands for Eduardo and Education while VLLD represents Valladares and Vulnerability). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andre Levy

Visual artist in Frankfurt, Germany, who created the poster typeface Naked Muse in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andre Maaßen

German designer André Maaßen (b. 1963, Neuss) studied communication design at the University of Wuppertal. In 1994, he founded Atelier für Kommunikationsdesign together with Anne Franke. Additionally, Maaßen has been teaching at the Ruhrakademie in Schwerte since 1992, and has also taught briefly at the University of Wuppertal. His first typeface was the funky calligraphic serif typeface family Varius (2004, Linotype). Varius includes ornamental styles with music notation and standard ornaments, called Livius Musika and Livius Ornaments, respectively. In 2007, he released the 4-style display sans typeface Anno at Linotype. Anno was inspired by the design of a New Year's card for the year 2000. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andre Roquette

Freelance graphic designer and illustrator in Munich, who designed Angle Type (2010, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andre Waitz

Andre Waitz, aka Der Schurke, is the German designer of the hand-printed grungy outline font Suppenkasper (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Anner

Andrea Anner is a Berlin-based Swiss graphic designer. After a Masters in Art Direction and Type Design at ECAL, she founded the design practice AnnerPerrin together with Martina Perrin. With Thibault Brevet, she has founded a studio for digital development.

Co-designer with Ian Party of Suisse International Condensed (2013). Designer of Rouillé (2010-2011 a revival of a French Renaissance typeface from 1581, possibly designed by Robert Granjon), Fokko, Euclid, and Finito (2012: a humanist sans done for a Masters thesis at ECAL in Lausanne). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Bartsch

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]  ⦿

Andrea D'Auria

Italian graphic designer and illustrator in Berlin, who created the shaded display typeface Pomodorino in 2013 for a restaurant identity. One Have To Coma Again (2013) is an angular display sans typeface.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Deinert

Andrea Deinert (b. 1985) studied Communication Design at the Trier University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2013. Since then she has been working as a designer in Cologne.

She created the thin paperclip typeface Filament (2013) and Mrs Tailor (2014, Volcano). Dafont link. Volcano Type link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Knudsen

German graphic designer who designed the runic typeface Creatividad Agotada (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Schulz

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). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Stan

Romanian lettering artist based in Germany. Designer of the informal inline typeface Thanks (2020, Monotype). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Tinnes
[Typecuts]

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André Kniepkamp

Designer at Elsner&Flake of the dot matrix font EF Kirmes. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

André Leonhardt

German designer, b. 1977, aka Leo, who studied graphic design at Anhalt University in Dessau in 2005. Between 2010 and 2015 he taught typography at Anhalt University in Dessau. In 2016, he co-founded Interfont with Dennis Michaelis.

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.

In 2015, Laura Dreßler (Schauschau, Berlin), André Leonhardt and Dennis Michaelis co-designed the monospaced typewriter typeface family Monoela (published in 2016 by Interfont).

In 2019, Leonhardt released Ideal, a top-heavy sans typeface, at Interfont. Klingspor link. Our Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

André Nossek
[Via Grafik Gestaltungsbüro (was: Meanworks)]

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André Rösler

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 Brüll Pictos, a very funny frog dingbat typeface (for some time, free from Volcano Type), which accompanied the hand-drawn lettering typefaces Brüll Aussen and Brüll Innen. Brüll was created for foreign editions of the childrens book Kannst du brüllen?, which has been released in 2003 by Peter Hammer Publishers, Wuppertal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Schulz-Werner
[Sundowntower]

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André-Pascal Werthwein

During his studies, Mannhein, Germany-based André-Pascal Werthwein designed Generative Type (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Brietzke
[Pixel und Punkte]

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Andreas Dauerer

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]  ⦿

Andreas Eigendorf

Berlin, Germany-based font engineer. 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.

In December 2014, Andreas Eigendorf and type designer Stephan Müller founded a font-production, type-technology, and knowledge hub based in Berlin, Alphabet Type. Its expertise and custom tools help type designers and foundries turn their typefaces into fully functional software.

In 2016, a team of designers at Lettersoup that includes Ani Petrova, Botio Nikoltchev, Adam Twardoch and Andreas Eigendorf designed an 8-style Latin / Greek / Cyrillic stencil typeface, Milka, which is based on an original stencil alphabet from 1979 by Bulgarian artist Milka Peikova.

Typedia link. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Frohloff

Calligrapher and type designer in Berlin, b. 1956, who headed the type department at FontShop International and then became Head of the Tech Department at Monotype in Berlin. He cooperated with Axel Betram on the text family Rabenau (2011, Linotype), which was earlier called Lucinde. Images: i, ii, iii.

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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Göbel
[Sütterlin --- Deutsche Schreibschrift]

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Andreas Hild
[Hild Design]

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Andreas Höfeld
[Fontgrube AH]

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Andreas Jung

Type designer from Schorndorf, Germany, b. 1968. of Trombo (FontShop). FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Karl

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.

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Andreas Klimek-Falke

Designer at Germany's Apply Design of fonts such as BigDots, 1993. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Koch

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 also designed Damned Dingbats (Apply Design, 1993).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Koeniger

This German designer used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Handstyle AK, a very clean narrow hand-printed face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Köhler

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
[Katwin-Schriften]

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Andreas Münch
[Buro Lazer]

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Andreas Preis

Berlin-based illustrator and graphic designer, who created the squarish semi-stencil typeface Jongehonden in 2012.

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Andreas Seidel
[Type in Berlin]

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Andreas Seidel
[astype.de (or: Astype)]

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Andreas Siess

German designer. Dafont link.

Creator of the free octagonal / mechanical typeface family Amboss (2012), and of the hand-printed Anilin (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Sommerwerk

Berlin-based type designer, b. Vienna, 1974. Andreas Sommerwerk was educated as a product designer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and has been active in areas like graphic, product, and, more recently, service design. MyFonts link. Sommerwerk Ink (2010) is inspired by typography found on old German shop windows. He writes: It is a script font, but instead of imitating human handwriting and the gestures connected to it, the goal was to come up with a new writing flow and stroke order. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Steinbrecher

Aka Ando Karambo. Illustrator and graphic designer in Düsseldorf, Germany, who designed Samson (2013) and Aquazoo (2014: a rounded sans and paperclip typeface rolled into one; designed together with g31 for the Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum Branding).

Typefaces from 2016: the non-conformist typeface family Caractère Anal (the name was chosen in reference to people with an anal personality. Some may prefer the equivalent name Caractère Trumpiste), Baechlemeid (a handcrafted typeface for the Bächlemeid architects in Konstanz) and Japanische Populärkultur (stretchable gridded letters). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Stötzner
[SIAS (or: Signographical Institute Andreas Stötzner)]

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Andreas Twardzik

During his studies in Trier, Germany, Andreas Twardzik (b. Schweinfurt) designed the free brush script typeface Hammock (2016). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Uebele
[Nice To Type (was: Übertype)]

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Andreas Wehner
[TechStat]

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Andreas Weygandt

AW Siam English Not Thai is a free Latin font with a Siamese look, designed by Andreas Wegandt (Germany).

Fontspace link. Yet another URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Wohlleben

Andreas Wohlleben is an illustrator based in Böblingen, Germany. In 2013, he published Wayfinding Sans Symbols (FDI), which has hundreds of wayfinding symbols that can be used with typefaces such as Ralf Herrmann's Wayfinding Sans Pro. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrej Krahne

Branding director in Braunschweig, Germany. His typographic work in Type Sex with Durex (2010) is remarkable. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew S. Meit

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]  ⦿

Andrew Sinn

Andrew Sinn is a digital creative from Berlin, Germany. He primarily works in UX / interaction design and additionally in vectors, 3D and game design. In 2019, he published the dancing baseline font family Heraklion. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andy Jörder

Type designer. With Alois Ganslmeier and Jörg Herz, he created the ultra-fat constructivist family Coma (Coma, Volcano). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Angela Bolliger

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
[Julliversum]

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Angelo Stitz
[Metatype]

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Angie Biso
[Type Rookie]

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Ania Cremer

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]  ⦿

Anissa Carrington

Wurzburg, Germany-based creator of Kabana (2014), an avant garde sans typeface custom designed for a soccer world championship afterparty. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anita Jürgeleit
[Type This Studio]

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Anja Escherich

Designer at Elsner&Flake in 1998 of the wonderful dingbat fonts EF Imagination Black, EF Imagination Fisheyes, EF Imagination Flowers, EF Imagination Magic.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anja Gindele

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 SQ 324, a slab serif, under the guidance of Hans-Jürg Hunziker und Rudolf Barmettler. In 2007, she designed interesting wayfinding symbols for the botanical garden of Zurich. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anja Gollor

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]  ⦿

Anja Nickel

Swiss designer of the art nouveau-inspired typeface Voluptan (2020) at HAV Hamburg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anja Udovicic

Graduate of Banja Luka College, Bosnia. Duesseldorf, Germany-based designer of a great colorful shaded all caps typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anke Arnold
[Anke Art]

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Anke Art
[Anke Arnold]

Wernau (was: Wendlingen), Germany-based Anke Arnold's free fonts: aa QWERTZ-Tasten (2012: German keyboard font), aa Halftone (2012: texture face), aa Tafelschrift (2012, school font), Car Go Frame (2011), Car-Go Plain (2011, modeled after German license plate lettering), Typo Garden (2010, alphadings), 80er Teenie Demo (2009), Acki Preschool (2009), Just Another Stamp (2009), Firlefanz (2009, curly letters), Pixelstitch (2006), AnkeHand (2003), Hole-Hearted (2003, Gill Sans with hearts), KRITZEL (scratchy pen), MilkyWay, FrightNight, Eminenz (2002), Scribble, Skribus, Why, TooLazyToPractice, XXX, CheapInkkilledmyPrinter, Storch (alphadings), Alexandras-Stempelkasten, Anatevka-Caps, BulletMix, Catwalk, Duke, Dukeplus (2000, blackletter), Riddleprint, Anke-Print, AnkeCalligraph, Titanic, Wasser, butterbrotpapier, distracted-musician, dyslexic, manko, quixotic, verrutscht, zladdi, barcoded, BulletMix2, CAR-GO-2, Fortunaschwein (nice curly script; no punctuation or numbers), Round, BigBrothers&Sisters, BoringLesson, CrimesceneAfterimage, Incognitype (old typewriter), Jenna'sPopsicles, Japanese Brush (1996), Knuffig (2000), MonkyBusiness, Olympia2000, Samba, Dandelion, Kritzel (2003, scratchy hand), Krystal (2000, snow simulation typeface based on Gill Sans), Nervous, ParryHotter (2001, a Harry Potter blackletter face), Pffft, Tschiroki, Heart2Heart (heart alphadings), Anke Sans.

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]  ⦿

Anke Bonk

Anke got into the type industry while interning at FontWerk in 2010. Since then she worked primarily on font hinting projects before joining the team of Alphabet Type in Berlin in January 2018 as a font engineer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anke Klasen

Young designer at fontgrube who made Linax. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna

German creator of Anna's Handschrift (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna

German designer (b. 1990) who created the handwriting typeface AnnasSchrift (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Bergmann

Berlin-based designer of the semi-blackletter typeface Frago (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Cairns

Anna Cairns (b. 1989) studied Communication Design at the University of the Arts Berlin, Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam and University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. She interned at Magma Design Studio and works as a freelancer designing type, websites, publications and visual identities. In 2016, she created the American signage brush script typeface Acron (Volcano Type). Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anna Gerstner

Karlsruhe, Germany-based creator of the following typeface in or just before 2013: Normal, Papercut, Feltpen, Circus (spurred typeface), Be Mine, Scribble 1 and 2 (sketched typefaces). She works as a junior art director. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna London

Berlin, Germany-based designer of the tweetware font White Pine (2015) and the handcrafted All Good Alchemy (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Mandoki
[e27]

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Anna Maria Schildbach

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]  ⦿

Anna Simons

Scribe, calligrapher and teacher (1871, Mönchengladbach-1951, Prien). From 1896 until 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]  ⦿

Anna Stoltenberg

Daughter of URW++'s font software specialist Axel Stoltenberg (Hamburg, Germany). In 2014, Axel and Anna co-designed Three Dee (URW++), a creamy 3d shadow typeface with overlapping letters. The shadows were developed with the Ikarus program. Inspiration came from chalkboard restaurant menus. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anna Szonn

Graphic designer in Gemmingen, Germany, who created the brush script typeface Mishelle (2017), and several sets of icons such as Clothing Icons and Gold Crown Icons. In 2018, she published Fashionable and Blooming Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Boskamp

German designer of the nice scratchy grungy all caps typeface Merlin LL (1994, Linotype). In 2003, she published Goodies LT Std A and B in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection. Bio at Linotype. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anne Elster

Hamburg, Germany-based designer of the roundish comic book typeface Picas Proper Hand (2016). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Maraike Czieslik

During her studies at Middlesex University in London, Anne Maraike Czieslik (b. Germany) designed the decorative typeface Waterbeast (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Pellenz

At Hochschule RheinMain in Wiesbaden, Germany, Anne Pellenz created the organic sans typeface Dingenskirchen (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Schotte

Type designer who participated in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Schröder
[Bobsmade]

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Anne van Ohlen

During her studies, Anne van Ohlen (Hamburg, Germany) designed the display typeface Alfie (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annelena Grascht

German designer of the coffee bean themed font Cafe Time (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annemarie Weber

Berlin-based designer of Doodle Type (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annette C. Disslin

German letterpress and metal type shop located in Waeschenbeuren, Germany, and run by Annette C. Disslin. The shop is called manufaktur Papiergebunden. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annette Ludwig

Director of the Gutenberg Museum. In 2016, Petra Eisele, Annette Ludwig and Isabel Naegele published Futura: Die Schrift (in German). The English version Futura: The Typeface (Laurence King) followed in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annette Wüsthoff

German designer at xplicit Berlin. Codesigner of Brush Poster Grotesk (2017, a fun semi grungy typeface designed for the children's exhibition 1,2,3 Kultummel from Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin by xplicit, Berlin (Annette Wüsthoff, Alexander Branczyk and Mascha Wansart) and Manuel Viergutz; loaded with glyphs and decorative extras like arrows, dingbats, emojis, symbols, geometric shapes, catchwords and decorative ligatures). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Annie Cuellar

Creator of the free fat finger fonts Raquel (2014), ABCP (2014), Dwarf Runes (2014) and Annie (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annika Mechelhoff

German designer of a few experimemtal typefaces in 2017 such as Futura Zensur, Futura Fragment and Futura Echo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ann-Kathrin Englisch

German designer of a straight-edged stick typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annkathrin Haberland

Graphic designer in München, Germany, who created the squarish typeface family Scarabaeus (2017) based on the shapes of insects. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ann-Sophie Webering

German graphic designer. Creator of the fat finger font Boldbolder Hand (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ansgar Knipschild

Designer at Germany's Apply Design of fonts such as Uhura (1993), Grind (1994), Bastard (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ansgar Krause

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]  ⦿

Ansgar Schoppmeyer

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]  ⦿

Antifa Publishing

Hannover, Germany-based outfit that published the Fraktur font Propaganda (1999). Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antitype
[Chris Corrado]

German designer of the retro futuristic typeface family Taranto (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antje Driemeyer
[Driemeyer Design]

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Antje Wolf

Designer at Germany's Apply Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Bohlin

Berlin, Germany (was: Jamtland, Sweden)-based designer (b. 1988) of Rub My Soap (2015, a free animated font), Runkmuskel (2011, hand-printed), Woodwarrior (2013, a hipster typeface with runic influences), tweetware hipster typeface), Wasteland (2014, a tweetware brush typeface advertized as post-apocalyptic), and PXLPLZ (2012, pixel face).

Dafont link. Behance link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Koberger

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 typefaces, 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:

• Manfred Klein created the blackletter typeface FF Koberger for Fontfont.
• Ernst H. Wulfert created a blackletter typeface called Koberger.
• Paulo W created ScotoKobergerFrakturN11 (2007) and ScotoKobergerFrakturN9 (2007). He chose the name because of Ottaviano Scotus, whose blackletter types were similar to Koberger's. Paulo W writes: Ottaviano Scotus headed a distinguished family of Venetian printers. Born of a noble family of Monza, he came to Venice at the age of 35 and operated a press there between 1479 and 1484. He continued as an editor until 1499 whereupon his heirs, including his brothers and nephews, undertook their own activity (1499-1532).

Anton Koovit
[Fatype]

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Anton Koovit

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, co-designed with Yassin Baggar). Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar offer a new take on U8 in their UCity typeface family (2019).

Experimental typefaces 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] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anton Krause

Hamburg-based designer of the steampunk font Steamjunk (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Nevin

Hamburg, Germany-based web and graphic designer. In 2017, he created the squarish typeface Bricker. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Schilli

German designer who studied at FH Trier. Creator of Line Ultralight (2011, a hairline monoline sans). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoni Tudisco

Hamburg-based designer of Cleptotronik (2012), a 3d visual effects caps alphabet.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonia Cornelius

German type and communication designer, lecturer and researcher with a special interest in legibility and readability (b. 1989). She obtained a Bachelor's in communication design with Jovica Veljovic at Hamburg University of Applied Science, where her thesis was entitled The Letters in my Head. What Creatives should know about reading processes in order to design joyful reading experiences. She also did a Master's with Veljovic, which led to her Legilux typeface family (a transitional serif with optical sizes as well as a sans serif) and further research on legibility. She graduated in 2017. Antonia joined Dutch Design in 2017 and extended the FF DIN family to FF DIN Slab. Furthermore, she re-engineered the whole FF DIN family itself to make variable fonts; she also added Bulgarian Cyrillic and other characters; finally, she also made FF DIN Stencil into a functional three axis variable font. Since 2018, she teaches type design at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel.

Her typefaces:

• Legilux (2016). A transitional serif with optical sizes as well as a sans serif developed during her Masters studies at Hamburg University of Applied Science.
• FF DIN Slab (2022). With Albert-Jan Pool.
• FF DIN Slab Variable (2022). With Albert-Jan Pool.
• FF DIN Stencil (2022). With Albert-Jan Pool and Achaz Reuss.
• FF DIN Stencil Variable (2022). With Albert-Jan Pool and Achaz Reuss.
• FF DIN Paneuropean (2022). With Albert-Jan Pool, Achaz Reuss, Aleksei Chekulaev and Panos Haratzopoulos. See also and FF DIN Paneuropean Variable (with Achaz Reuss, Aleksei Chekulaev, Albert-Jan Pool and Panos Haratzopoulos).

Antonia Cornelius won the People's Choice award for Legilux in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016.

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of legibility: Typeface designers Antonia Cornelius and Björn Schumacher conducted a preliminary study for their final master's projects. They set up a reading-speed test by reverting to well-tried test material, which they set in their new typefaces Legilux and Text Type as well as the common Walbaum Standard. Focusing on the effect of the optical scaling method, the typefaces were tested in two sizes: 1.5 mm and 1 mm x-height. The results tend to show a positive effect for optical adjustments in type designs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antonia Huber

German designer of the smooth organic display typeface Cirrus (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonia Schön

At Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden, Germany-based Antonia Schön designed Morsch (2018), an interesting typeface that combines the angularity of blackletter with the primitive nature of wood type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anya D

Berlin, Germany-based designer of Mamma Mia (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apostolos Simeonakis

Designer of screen fonts for 5 to 8 point at screentype.de (or: Cybedesign): Tolski (2000) and Totally Regular (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apply

Defunct type magazine published by the German foundry, Apply Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apply Design Group
[Thomas Sokolowski]

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). He also designed about ten clean old typewriter fonts such as Old Typewriter EF Regular, 1990. Other fonts include the ultra-thin Spirit EF, Imprimeur Classique (1989, a computer modern face), Scripture (1990, handwriting).

Sokolowski founded 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 One, Concept Two, 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. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apply Interactive

German stencil typeface and typographic service outfit located in Hamburg. MyFonts site. Besides Caslon Fina Stencil and Serpentine Stencil (Dick Jensen), the following typefaces or families were made in 1999 by Sigrid Claessens and Günther Flake: Advera Stencil, Stencil Antiqua (1999, by Sigrid Claessens and Günther Flake), Arston Stencil, Chico Stencil, Ferro Stencil, La Pina Stencil, Lasertac Stencil, Reedon Stencil, Rounded Stencil, Walton Stencil, Western Stencil, Glaser Stencil (after a typeface by Milton Glaser), Bank Stencil (1930s typeface of Morris Fuller Benton), Geometric Stencil (originally by Paul Renner), Tea Chest Stencil (after a typeface by Robert Harling, 1939).

MyFonts offers these fonts: Arston Stencil, Caslon Fina Stencil, Reedon Stencil, Western Stencil, Stencil Antiqua, Advera Stencil, Glaser Stencil, Rounded Stencil, Bank Stencil, Tea Chest Stencil, Lasertac Stencil, Geometric Stencil, Walton Stencil, Ferro Stencil, Serpentine Stencil, Chico Stencil, La Pina Stencil, OCR-A AI (Apply Interactive). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ArabTex
[Klaus Lagally]

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]  ⦿

Aral

Type foundry in Germany. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Archetypo.xyz

Archetypo.xyz was set up in 2020 by Joaquin Contreras and Miguel Hernandez Montoya, South American type designers based in Germany. Their typefaces:

• AA Actual Mono (2020). Monospaced, in 10 styles.
• CC Accidenz Commons. A free redrawing of Akzidenz Grotesk. One style only.

Ari Hausel
[Aarhaus]

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Ariane Spanier

German designer who created some typefaces including Spanari. Interview. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arif Demir

Designer and illustrator first based in Hannover and later in Munich, Germany. His creations include the sans typeface Edelmann (2013), which according to him was created as a blend of Futura and DIN. This font was created at Hochschule Hannover under the guidance of Florian Schick and Walter Hellmann. Behance link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armin Brenner

Partner of Markus John at New Letters, a German design and typography studio cofounded in 2015 by both. In 2013, they co-designed Tilde (2013) and Meriva (2015). Armin also designed Voltaire (2014).

In 2017, Markus John and Armin Brenner designed the high-contrast display and headline antiqua serif typeface Freya and published New Mériva Mono.

In 2017, Markus John and Armin Brenner released their take on Helvetica / Neue Haas Grotesk, called Anais. Like Helvetica, it has horizontal / vertical terminals, but the x-height of Anais dominates.

In 2021, they released the ink-trapped display typeface Kjell. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armin Retzko

German designer of QuasariaLL Regular (1994), a font with really illegible extra-condensed characters.

FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arne Freytag
[Fontador (was: Arne Freytag)]

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Arne Götje
[CJK Unifonts]

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Arne Meyer

Berlin-based designer who studied at Hochschule Hannover. In 2016, he created DIN Blind (2016) which is a monospaced DIN adapted to Braille. It follows the E-DIN 32976 norm for tactile writing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arno Drescher

Type designer (b. Auerbach, Germany, 1882, d. Braunschweig, 1971) who studied at the Akademie für Kunstgewerbe in Dresden, and became professor there in 1920. During World War II, Arno Drescher was director of the Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. After a period as freelance designer, he finally moved to Braunschweig in 1960.

Drescher is best known for his large geometric Super Grotesk family (Schriftguss, 1930). The list of his typefaces:

• Appell (1933, Schriftguss).
• Arabella (1936, Ludwig Wagner) and Arabella Favorit (1939, Ludwig Wagner). A cursive pair of typefaces. Digital revivals include Arabella (ca. 1999) by Dieter Steffmann and Arabella Pro (2006) by Ralph M. Unger.
• Drescher Eilschrift (1934, Wilhelm Woelmer).
• Drescher Versalien (1927, Schriftguss). Aka Drescher Initials. An open lineale titling typeface.
• Duplex (1930, Typoart and 1937, Schriftguss). An all caps inline typefaces.
• Energos (1932, Schriftguss). An early brush script. Revived by Ralph M. Unger in 2008 as Energia Pro (2008).
• Fundamental Grotesk (1938-1939, Ludwig Wagner) and Fundamental Kursiv. In several weights.
• Helion (Schriftguss, 1935, and Fonderie Française, 1935, a 3-d shaded outline font). Digitally revived by Ralph M. Unger in 2020 as RMU Helion.
• Manutius Antiqua (1935, Ludwig Wagner), Manutius Kursiv (1935, Ludwig Wagner). This typeface is idenitical to Johannes Wagner's Antiqua 505 (1955).
• Milo (1940, Schriftguss). A shadow typeface.
• Onyx (1936, Schelter & Giesecke). A multiline art deco titling typeface.
• Schreibmeister Kursiv (1958, at Ludwig Wagner). A formal cursive font. Schreibmeister (2021) is Ralph Unger's interpretation.
• Super Grotesk (1930, Schriftguss). This geometric typeface family was revived at FontShop in 1999 by Svend Smital as FF Super Grotesk, and at Bitstream in 2001 by Nicolai Gogoll as Drescher Grotesk BT. Super Grotesk Schmalfett (1933) was revived in 2020 by Ralph M. Unger as RMU Gong.
• Super Blickfang (1932, Schriftguss), Super Elektrik (1931, Schriftguss), Super Reflex (1931, Schriftguss). For a digital revival, see FF Super.

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Arnold Boecklin

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]  ⦿

Arnold Erin

German lettering artist. Designer of the felt pen and marker font Dahlia (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arnold Lämmel

Author in 1969 of an article in Die deutsche Schrift of Schulschrift in Deutschland (about handwriting education in schools in Germany). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnold Pannartz

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.

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).

Revivals of their typefaces, blends between humanist and blackletter, include:

• The Subiaco font done by Ashendene Press in 1902. The Subiaco type is now owned by Cambridge University Press. Its punches were cut by E.P. Prince.
• Nephi Mediaeval (1983). A metal type by Jim Rimmer for private use. McGrew gives the date 1986. Rimmer writes: It was inspired by the Subiaco type of the Ashendene Press and by its inspiration, the type of Sweynheym and Pannartz. My design breaks away from those types slightly in form and is softer in general feeling. In time I will cut other sizes.
• Linotype Conrad (1999, Akira Kobayashi). Not a revival at all, but rather an interpretation and modernization.
• The scanfont 1467 Pannartz Latin by Gilles Le Corré in 2009.
• Pannartz Book (2009, Tomi Haaparanta, Suomi).
• SweynheymPannartz (2010, Shane Brandes).
• Benedictine (Anthony Elder, 2014-2015). In the Type@Cooper Extended Program in 2014-2015, Brooklyn, NY-based Anthony Elder designed Benedictine, which is inspired by the first printed books in Italy by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz in the XVth century. Behance link.
• A couple of free fonts by Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas that were developed during a 2018 workshop at Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Santa Scolastica, Subiaco. The first one, Sweynheim & Pannartz Subiaco 120R, is a proto-roman first used in Subiaco by Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz for an edition of Donatus in 1465 (no longer preserved) and used until 1467 in four editions in total. The secon one, Sweynheim & Pannartz 115R, is a proto-roman first used in Rome by Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz for Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares in 1467 and used until 1476.

Arnold ter Hoernen

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]  ⦿

Arthur Eisenmenger

Despite contradictory claims by the European politicians like Jacque Santer, then president of the European Commission, the Euro symbol was first designed (in 1973 and 1974) by a German designer, Luxembourg-based euro-fanatic, Arthur Eisenmenger (b. 1914, Basel, Switzerland; d. 2002, Eislingen, Germany), who was the former chief graphic designer of the European Community until his retirement in 1974. 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. The European commission claimed that it was chosen in December 1996 after an internal competition headed by Yves Thibault de Silguy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Ersosi

During his studies at HSNR, Arthur Ersosi (Krefeld, Germany) designed the beautiful ultra-black humanist sans typeface Roy Black (2013). In 2015, he designed the loud advertising typeface Rabenstein Ultra (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Pestner

German type designer, who created the blackletter headline typeface family Deutsche Reichs-Schrift (1915, Wilhelm Woellmer). Other weights: Fett (1915), Schmal (1924), Eng (1919), Schmalfett (1924), Schmalhalbfett (1917). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Ritzel

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]  ⦿

Arthur Schulze

German punchcutter. Designer at Ludwig&Mayer of the blackletter typeface Werbekraft (1926) and of the script typeface 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).

Revivals include Schulze Werbekraft (Peter Wiegel, 2017) and WF Neue Werbe Kraft (Oliver Weiss, Walden Font, 2016-2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Schuricht

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]  ⦿

Arthur Smit

Berlin, Germany-based designer of the free geometric poster typeface Metrika (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artill (or Artill Typs)
[Lukas Bischoff]

Artill is Lukas Bischoff's foundry in Aachen (and before that, Trier), Germany, est. 2009. Lukas is a stylist and designer based in Trier. He created Sketch Rockwell (2008), one of the nicest sketched style fonts anywhere.

Commercial typefaces 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).

In 2014, together with Sascha Timplan at Stereotypes, he created the athletic lettering typeface family Atletico. See also here.

In 2016, Sascha Timplan and Lukas Bischoff published the handsome sans typeface family Golden Sans. In 2016, Fargus Meiser and Lukas Bischoff co-designed Paul Grotesk and Paul Soft. In 2018, they added Paul Slab and Paul Slab Soft. In 2021, they released Paul Grotesk Stencil.

Behance link. Blog. Old URL. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Artur Tenczynski

, Hamburg, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden-based designer of the decorative typeface Indian Summer (2015) and the 3d number font FC (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Astrid Groborsch

Designer at Brass Fonts in Cologne of the pictogram font BF Temptice (with Guido Schneider, 1998-1999). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Astrid Scheuerhorst

Hamburg-based lithographer (b. 1967). FF Call is her first font: it is a family of pixel fonts made in 2000.

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Astrid Zellmann

Type designer who participated in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

astype.de (or: Astype)
[Andreas Seidel]

Astype.de is a German foundry started in 2003 by illustrator and type designer Andreas Seidel (b. 1975, bad saarow, near Berlin, Germany). He lives in Cottbus, Germany. In 1998, he obtained a Masters degree in business administration. In 2007, he and Ingo Preuss set up The German Type Foundry. In 2017, he joined the initial crew at Fust & friends. The typefaces:

• One of his first typefaces was Crayfish (originally a URW font, but withdrawn by Seidel from URW in 2002). Crayfish is a display type originally designed for an American Football club. The Crayfish typefaces are sold as Thunder Bold and Titan Bold.
• Check his nice weather symbols (not a font).
• He finished Ornaments Thanksgiving and the great ASTYPEOrnaments-WineGrape A (2004).
• He is working on 14th century initials (2003).
• He created Sattler (2003): Joseph Kaspar Sattler, one of the great German art nouveau artists created these nice initials in 1897 for the famous royal monumental book project Die Nibelunge for the Reichsdruckerei Berlin. Only 200 exclusive signed masterpieces were printed in four years from 1900 till 1904. Joseph Sattler was the art director, type designer and designer in one person. The Reichsdruckerei showed samples of the unfinished work in 1900 at the world exhibition in Paris to advertise the high craftsmanship of the German presses.
• He made Heraut (2003), an art nouveau lettering typeface based on a 1901 design of Hermann Hoffmann called Herold Reklameschrift.
• He created Sveva AS Versal (2003, art nouveau).
• About Missa Solemnis, he writes: Solemnis was designed by Günter Gerhard Lange and first cut in metal 1953 (this is the date he quotes himself, other sources mention 1950 or 1952). It seems to be one of his earliest typeface designs that he had done as a freelancer for H. Berthold AG in Berlin. [...] Missa Solemnis AS is a new, remastered and extended version of Mr Lange's typeface. The font is available in the OpenType format and comes in two styles: 1953 and 2003. The 1953 style contains all characters of the original metal type, as well as a few additions. [...] The 2003 cut is more delicate and makes extensive use of the OpenType format. It contains over 650 glyphs, covering Roman-based languages of Western and Central Europe. His Solemnis inspired Simeon AS (2003), a 650-glyph uncial style face.
• In 2004, he created Missale Incana, an interpretation of a typeface from Herbert Thannhaueser.
• Still in 2004, he created ASTYPE Ornaments Christmas A2 and ASTYPE Ornaments Christmas A. These were followed in 2005 by ASTYPE Ornaments Christmas B.
• He made Missale Lunea (2004). This has astroligical symbols, moon phases and medieval characters.
• In 2005, the exquisite calligraphic script typeface Gracia was added, consisting of Gracia No. 44, 45, 54 and 55 (graceful calligraphic script), and Gracia Solo.
• Paola is a redesigned, new interpretation of a brush typeface from Carl Rudolf Pohl.
• He made Adana (2005): The roots of Adana going back to the year 1930, to the Berlin-based German graphic designer Wilhelm Berg. His typeface can be interpreted as an answer to Lucian Bernhards Schönschrift. The Initials are nearly close to the original drawings but the Circular typeface was changed dramaticly. Excentric, unusual forms and loops were changed to fit todays needs. Due to the lack of a corresponding Roman letter form, the Regular version was designed including small caps, fitting the contrast and swinging shapes of Adana Circular. Both typefaces play well together in all kinds of adverts, as well with designs like Bodoni or Didot.
• Alea AS Initials (2005) is a floral faced based on the drawings of Maria Ballé.
• Taiko (2006). A revival of Otto Arpke's Arpke Antiqua (1928, copperplate).
• ASTYPE Ornaments Accolades A (2007), and ASTYPE Ornaments Accolades C (2011).
• GTF Toshna Std (2008, German Type Foundry) is a garaldic type family in three optical weights, after a 1955 family called Tschörtner-Antiqua by Hellmuth Tschörtner that was very popular in the DDR.
• Secca (2009, German Type Foundry) is a simple sans family rooted in early German grotesque type designs. See also Secca Soft (2014) and Secca Stencil (2015).
• Nepos (2010) is an experimental modular type kit consisting of ready-made typefaces and a set of special BUILD fonts to build your own letters and ornaments. These BUILD fonts can be used on layers with different colors and overprinting for special effects. The effects like Antiplex can be considered as kitchen tiles. There are also color inversions and stencil types.
• Secca Saloon (2011) is a versatile ornamental Western family.
• Popsil (2011) is a white-on-black hand-printed poster face.
• Ademo (2011) is a classic shaded layered 3d caps face, based on two typefaces designed by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt that were published in 1931-1932 by Schriftguss AG.
• Wood Bonnet Antique No.7 (2012) is based on real vintage wood type blocks from Switzerland.
• VTG Stencil US No. 4 (2012) is based on plate US No. 4 from New York Stencil Works. This revolving stencil-plate was invented by Eugene L. Tarbox and patented in 1868. The military stencil fonts VTG Stencil US No. 2 (+Ornaments), VTG Stencil US No. 51, VTG Stencil UK No. 76, VTG Stencil Germany No. 101 (2014, modeled after historic blackletter stencil plates from Bavaria), and VTG Stencil US No. 72 followed in 2014. In 2016, he added Vtg Stencil DIN.
• VTG Stencil Germany No. 1 (2013) is a set of nicely executed didone stencil typefaces based on real models used in Germany from 1871-1918 and later. There is a Sketch style.
• Wood Poster Eight (2015) is a free wood type slab serif.
• Alea Initials (2017, floriated caps).
• Wood Bonnet Grotesque No 4 (2017).
• The Vtg Stencil France series (2017) in substyles Vtg Stencil France No1, Vtg Stencil France No3 and No. 5.
• The expressionist typeface Alarm (2017, Fust & Friends), which is based on an old design of Heinz König also called Alarm (1928, at Trennert).
• Presto (2017, Fust & Friends), a revival of a script by Helmut Matheis (1970).
• Vtg Stencil Italy No2 (2018).
• Rocaie (2018). Decorative caps base on antique rococo letters from a gilding workshop.
• Wood Heinz No.4 (2019). Wood Heinz No.4 offers up to four printed look variations of all the Latin base letters and figures. An OpenType letter rotator is programmed into the fonts to emulate the randomness of wood type printing. Also: Wood Heinz No.2 (2019).
• Missale Solis (2019). An uncial typeface that overhauls Missale Lunea (2004).
• Vtg Stencil UK No2 (2019).
• Vtg Stencil Marsh (2020). Based on one inch stencils, cut by a Marsh machine. Marsh was an American stencil machine maker in the 1920s.
• Bonnet Grotesque Narrow (2020). A condensed grotesque family.

Behance link. Creative Market link. Fust & Friends link. Klingspor link. Home page. See also here.

View Andreas Seidel's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Carvalho Bernau
[Kai Bernau]

Foundry and studio run by Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau (see also his Letterlabor site), located in Den Haag, The Netherlands, and established in 2005.

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. Since 2011, Kai teaches type design in the Master in Art Direction program at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2005, Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, which is based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Typefaces:

• In 2010, they published the free titling grotesk Jean-Luc (Godard), inspired by the movie titling in (1967). Bernau writies: We did not find out who originally made the lettering for these two movies. Some speculate it could have been Godard himself. Godard's interest in graphic design and typography is clear, with many of his other films employing such strong typography-only titles and intertitles. They are almost a self-sufficient entity, another character in the movie, another comment. This style of lettering is so interesting to us because it is such a clear renunciation of the pretty, classical title screens that were common in that time's more conservative films. It has a more vernacular and brutishly low-brow character; this lettering comes from the street: We can not prove this at all, but we think it may be derived from the stencil letters of the Plaque Découpée Universelle, a lettering device invented in the 1870s by a certain Joseph A. David, and first seen in France at the 1878 Exposition Universelle, where it found broad appeal and rapid adoption. We think this style of lettering was absorbed into the public domain vernacular of French lettering, and that the 2 ou 3 choses titles are derived from these quotidien lettering style, as it would seem to fit Godard's obsession with vernacular typography. We learned about the PDU through Eric Kindel's article in Typography Papers 7. In 2009, then-Werkplaats Typografie student Dries Wiewauters surprised us with a revival of the Plaque Découpée Universelle. Below, the JeanLuc alphabet (white) and the PDU alphabet (blue), to show similarities and differences.
• Lyon Text and Lyon Display (2005-2010). These are two text families done at Commercial Type. They say: Lyon is a suite of contemporary reading typefaces for modern publications, based on historical models of the 16th century punch cutter Robert Granjon. Lyon reflects our convictions about modern digital typeface design: A decisively digital outline treatment that reveals our modern repertoire of tools, and the typeface itself as a modern design tool, paired with a certain Times-like unobtrusiveness in the Text sizes, contrasts nicely with Lyon's 16th century heritage.
• Neutraface Slab (2007-2009, art directed by Christian Schwartz and Ken Barber). The slab of the famous Neutraface family at House Industries, designed by Christian Schwartz, Kai Bernau and Susan Carvalho: Neutraface Slab Text, Neutraface Slab Display.
• Neutral (2005-2009). The Neutral typeface was Kai's graduation project from the KABK undergrad course. It is what one could call a basic sans. It first appeared as Neutral BP in the now defunct B&P Foundry. In 2014, Typotheque picked it up. Kai writes: Neutral was inspired by typefaces that seem ageless, remaining fresh and relevant even decades after they were designed. It was constructed based on a set of parameters derived by measuring and averaging a number of popular 20th-century Sans Serif fonts.
• Custom typeface Munich Re (2008-2009) for the Munich Re Reinsurance group. MunichRe Sans takes roots in the grotesque types of the 1950s (among others, Dick Dooijes' Mercator for the Lettergieterij Amsterdam).
• Custom typeface Harvard Museum Neutral (2008).
• Atlas Grotesk (2012, by Kai Bernau, Susan Carvalho and Christian Schwartz, Commercial Type). A revival of Dick Dooijes's Mercator. See also Atlas Typewriter (2012, Commercial Type). Originally designed as a corporate typeface for Munich Re, it became a retail font. A Cyrillic version was added by Ilya Ruderman in 2020.
• The custom typeface Proprio (2007-2009) for the Fabrico Proprio project. This is a willfully bare-bones grotesk family without any snootiness.
• In 2016, Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau published Algebra (Commercial Type): Algebra evolved from Granger, a headline typeface designed by Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau for the US edition of Esquire. Algebra is a broad-shouldered slab serif typeface built on superelliptical forms. Its loose spacing gives a remarkably comfortable texture in text, and its crisp detailing gives a distinctive and serious feeling at display sizes, particularly with some negative tracking. Algebra references Adrian Frutiger's Egyptienne, Georg Trump's Schadow, and Hermann Zapf's Melior.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier im Dachgeschoss
[Klaus Czytko]

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]  ⦿

Atelier Vonau
[Bernd Vonau]

Mosbach, Germany-based designer of Mibelle (2015), Edmond Bold (2015), Brad Bold (2015, brush font), Josia (2015, handcrafted by a child), Palm Script (2015, curly font), Sarayon (2015, fat crayon script based on daughter Sarah's handwriting), Friday Script (2014), Vector Font No 5 (2015), Jekyde Bold (2015, fat brush font), Inkje Italic (2015, brush),Bbambink (2015) and Bambist Condensed (2015, hand-made with bamboo pen and ink).

Typefaces from 2016: Miller Mini, Palim (grungy curly script), Mondeen, Mondeen Condensed.

Typefaces from 2017: JuliMoon. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Athos Santiago

Essen, Germany-based designer of the sports font Born & Bred (2019), which is being used for athletic gear by Decathlon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atlas Font Foundry
[Christoph Dunst]

Berlin-based foundry, est. 2012 by Christoph Dunst.

Creators of Novel Mono (2012, Christoph Dünst), Novel Sans (2012), Novel Sans Rounded (2012), and Novel Sans Condensed (2012), Novel Sans Office Pro (2013), Novel Sans Hair Pro (2014), Heimat Sans (2010), Heimat (2010), Heimat Mono (2013), Heimat Stencil (2013), Novel Sans Office Pro (2013), Heimat Didone (2014: a 72-style family of high-contrast didones; some styles should be useful for fashion mags), Heimat Display (2015: characterized by an inverted tail of the y), Novel Display (2017), Edit Serif Pro (2017), Edit Serif Cyrillic (2018), Edit Serif Arabic (2018).

Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Atlier Hurra
[Thomas Witte]

Thomas Witte (Atlier Hurra, Berlin, Germany) created the dingbat typeface Hurra verve in 2014. Another URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Attila Korap

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]  ⦿

ATypI Technology Committee Meeting

Held in Heidelberg, Germany, on February 20, 2003 in the afternoon, at Zum Güldenen Schaf, Haupstraße 115, Heidelberg. Open to everyone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Augenbluten
[Axel Pfaender]

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]  ⦿

August E. Woerner

Punchcutter 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 Type foundry, and at Bruce Type foundry 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 typeface 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."

His typefaces: Bruce No. 11, No. 13 and No. 21 (Bruce Type foundry), German no.91 (1876, Bruce), Penman Script No.2053 (Bruce), Merrymount (1896, Merrymount Press), and the following typefaces published at Farmer, Little & Co: Card Gothic (1893), Gotham (ca. 1890), Lightface, Old Style No. 5 (ca. 1887), Old Style No. 5 Italic, and No. 6, 15, 17, 18, 20 21, 22 and 23. [Google] [More]  ⦿

August Haiduk

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]  ⦿

August Piehler

German creator of the display typefaces Piehler Schrift (1922) and Piehler Kursiv (1923) at Schriftguss AG vormalich Brüder Butter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

August Rosenberger

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]  ⦿

Augusto Siccardi

Graphic designer at Brrrands in Berlin, Germany. In 2017, he designed the free display sans typeface Ascardi Sans and writes: Ascardi Sans is a retro display font with a touch of murkiness to it. Inspired by American advertising, Italian posters, logos and signs from the 1960s until late in the 20th Century. This typeface is designed for headlines, posters, and corporate identities. The characters were originally hand drawn with a Parallel Pen. Ascardi was conceived as a timeless font. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurelian Hallhuber

German type and graphic designer. He used Morse code in the creation of the experimental typeface New Samuel (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Authentic
[Julius Wiescher]

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
[Gert Wiescher]

München-based foundry, est. 2008 by Gert Wiescher, whose main font foundry is Wiescher Design. Myfonts link. Specializing in handwritten scripts and rough fonts, they created Obsession A through F (2012, a penmanship typeface family), Pigalle Swing (2012), Amaro (2011, a signage script family; + Amaro Block, +Amaro Fleurie), Obsession (2011, a calligraphic family), Astara (2010), Golden Love (2010), Homer (2010, a comic character script), Moon Love (2010), Perfecto (2010), Nikita (2009, upright connected script), English Lazy Bird (2009), Script Hand (2009), Angel Eyes (2009), Cheap Thrill (2009), Viva Maria (2009), True Love (2009), WildThing (2009), Doria (2009), Verena (2009), Astria (2009), Chloe (2009), Bea (2009, brush), Xan (2009, rough Japanese-style script), Fat Sally (2009, comic book face), Wally (2009, calligraphic), Ysadora (2009, calligraphic), Zoe (2009, calligraphic), Joyosa (2009), Ulissia (2009, hand-drawn slab serif), Querida (2009), Riana (2008), Quiana (2008), Quirina (2008, calligraphic), Naomi (2009, calligraphic; based on his Nana), Don Julio (2008, calligraphic), Donna Julia (2008, calligraphic), Novita (2008, calligraphic), Novido (2008), Flatpen (2008, a rounded sans face), Kato (2008), Leona (2008, brush script), Tina (2008, fat brush), Maeva (2008, calligraphic script), Oona (2008, like Maeva), the brush script Paula (2008), the upright cursive typefaces Grazia (2008) and Greta (2008), the brush script Juliana (2008), the comic book style typefaces Carina (2008), Isara (2008), Kiki (2008), and Fanny (2008), and the calligraphic script typefaces Dalia (2008), Elisara (2008), Simona (2008), Helenia (2008), Annabella (2008), Brigitta (2008) and Constanza (2008). Gert writes about himself: I went to Paris when I was very young, just for the sake of art. That caused many a sleepless night to my beloved mother, but she accepted my decision. Once I met Salvador Dalí, but he did not take me very seriously. To this day I dont know why! After some years I decided to start a serious life. I got married and studied graphic design at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Making detours, once more to Paris, then to Barcelona, where I designed the OECD pavillion for the Osaka World Expo at the office of Harnden&Bombelli, I reached South Africa. Grey and Young advertising got to know me! I had to fiddle around with Agfa cameras and films, Epol dog-food, several kinds of toilet paper, unbelievable insurance companies and I-dont-know-what. Sometime on a holiday in Munich I stayed there. Someone made me an offer I did not want to refuse. DFS&R-Dorland bought me out of South African slavery! I now became an art-director for Paulaner, CMA, Phillip Morris, and Peugeot. Being a young adventurous man, I changed to the Herrwerth&Partner agency, which at that time was supposed to be the most creative outfit in town. Mister Herrwerth taught me to think simple. I was allowed to introduce IKEA into the German market. Afterwards I became Creative Partner with Lauenstein&Partner. That was OK, til someone discovered his love for horses! Thats when I rented my own office in 1982! Since then I design some typefaces per year, I guide a couple of nice young people (apprentices) along to designer stardom. I write a couple of books and newspaper articles about design, computers, food, drink and crime! As a graphic designer I have nothing but happy clients! I am open to every challenge! [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Avila Tiu

As a student at HMKW Köln, Avila Tiu designed the modular 3d typeface Paige (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Avoid Red Arrows

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]  ⦿

Axel Bertram

Axel Bertram was born in Dresden in 1936. He studied at the Berlin Weissensee Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. From 1972 to 1986 and from 1989 to 1992 he worked as a university lecturer in typeface and graphic design at the Berlin-Weissensee Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. He was made professor in 1977. He has been active in graphic design, publicity work, and most importantly, digital typeface design.

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]  ⦿

Axel Peemöller

Young designer at fontgrube who made Polymer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axel Pfaender
[Augenbluten]

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Axel Stoltenberg

German Ikarus program developer at URW++. He was also part of the team that developed the font software program DTL OT Master, which was programmed at URW++ in Hamburg, Germany. The team comprised Dr. Juergen Willrodt, Axel Stoltenberg, Hartmut Schwarz, Peter Rosenfeld and Frank E. Blokland, with Karsten Luecke as advisor and also author of the OTM manual.

In 2014, Axel and his daughter Anna Stoltenberg co-designed Three Dee (URW++), a creamy 3d shadow typeface with overlapping letters. The shadows were developed with the Ikarus program. Inspiration came from chalkboard restaurant menus. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

B. Stonefield

B. Stonefield (Hamburg, Germany) created Stonefield Script (2011, a marker script), and Stonefield (2011, a rounded art deco style stencil family). [Google] [More]  ⦿

B. Wichmann

German web developer. FontStructor who made Eldsie (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

B2302
[Simon Becker]

Berlin-based designer Simon Becker (aka B2302) created Legere (2012, HypeForType). 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.

In 2014, Simon designed the manicured sans typeface family Helado together with Sabrina Ekecik and Benjamin Campana. Vagtur (a tweetware hybrid of VAG Rounded and Fette Fraktur) was co-designed with Sabrina Ekecik.

In 2016, he designed the deco typeface Twokes.

Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bad Taste Design
[Bianca Schlich]

German creator of the spurred typeface Biker Diamond (2017) and the tattoo fonts Bad Sailor (2018), Sailors Diary Sans (2018) and Sailors Diary Title Slab (2018). Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baldericus van den Horick

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 Graphic Design Today
[Sebastian Bissinger]

BANK is a French/German design agency based in Berlin, led by Laure Boer and Sebastian Bissinger. It marketed its fonts through T-26, starting in 2009, but later switched to Colophon. In 2009, Sebastian Bissinger and Matthieu David made the display typefaces Sintra and Yummy. Sintra is a 3d typeface 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.

Laure Boer and Sebastian Bissinger published their all caps license plate font Guida at Colophon Type Foundry. Guida is based on an Italian license plate that was in use some time between 1980 and 1990. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Stecher

Berliner who designed Termino511 (2011) during his studies at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Cain

Born in 1954 in Löpten, Germany, Barbara cain studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Designer at Typoart of Fetta Antiqua and Schmallfette Antiqua, two didone typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Klingenberg

Flensburg, Germany-based designer of the potato print typeface Rue Morgue (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barske.com
[Helge Barske]

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 Laubsch

During his studies in Berlin, Germany, Bart Laubsch created the slab serif typeface Ciclotta (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bart Stax
[Kraftfahrzeugkennzeichen]

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Bartholomaeus Ghotan

Bartholomäus Ghotan was the foremost authority on printing liturgical texts in his era. He had previously worked as a priest at Magdeburg (Germany) where he learned about book printing and decided to start a new career. His clerical training made him an expert on the subject of liturgical books and he printed the very first missal, Missale Praemonstratense there in 1479. Ghotan moved to Lübeck and continued to make liturgical books. In 1486 he was invited to Stockholm where he printed several books for Swedish dioceses, including Missale Strengnense. In 1487 he had a disagreement with the government led by regent Sten Sture and returned to Lübeck where he printed Missale Aboense in 1488. Ghotan continued printing books in Lübeck for several years before deciding to open a printing shop at Novgorod in 1493. He probably died in Novgorod in 1494. Some suspect that he was killed in the disturbances caused by the conflict between the Hanseatic League and Czar Ivan the Great but the real cause of death is unknown.

The letterforms of the digital font Missaali (2016, Tommi Syrjänen) are based on Missale Aboense. Ghotan followed the standard practice of the time and set the missal using textura, a type based on textualis formata that was the prevalent late-medieval script in Germany for the most valuable manuscripts. Thirty years earlier Gutenberg had used the same script for his famous bibles. Missale also has a number of large initials that are mostly set in the Lombardic style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bartholomaeus Zientek

German designer at Team 505 who is based in Berlin. During his studies, he created the bike-themed font Felge (2012, with David Benski). Behance link. Cargo collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Basari Design

Berlin-based studio. Designers of the icon font The Earth (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Basil Boyacos

Berlin, Germany-based designer of the free weathered blackletter typeface family Au (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bastarda -- Schwabacher

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: a hand-drawn Schwabacher from 1489, a sample by Johann Schoeffer in Mainz, dated 1521, and a fancy title page. In the middle of the 16th century, it was displaced by fraktur as the most-used German typeface. German link. Characterized by the pointed o (both top and bottom), the Asian-looking "g", the Garamond-like "h" and the "A" that thinks it is a "U", it was rejuvenated in the 18th century by German foundries such as Genzsch and Heyse (Alte Schwabacher, 1835, and Neue Schwabacher, 1876) and Klingspor (Offenbacher Schwabacher, 1900), and type designers such as Ehmcke (1916) and Schneidler (1918) who all produced beautiful readable typefaces.

The French bâtarde (bastarda) became popular in France under the patronage of Jean, Duc de Berry, 1340-1416, and remained popular well into the 1600s. It is largely similar to Schwabacher although Schwabacher shows the (unreadable, U-like) open capital A that bâtarde avoids, as a rule.

There are many digital Schwabacher typefaces. See, e.g., Alte Schwabacher by Berthold, Alte Schwabacher by URW++, or Adobe's Duc de Berry, Bigelow's Lucida Blackletter, or P22's SchwarzKopfNew and SchwarzKopfOld. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bauersche Giesserei blackletter fonts

Andreas Seidel lists the blackletter typefaces published by the Bauersche Giesserei (and I added a few more):

• Flinsch Privat, 1919
• Renata, 1914. Digital revivals as renata by Gerhard Helzel, and later by Peter Wiegel.
• Bernhard Fraktur, 1913-22
• Frankfurter Fraktur, 1905 / after 1911 renamed to Flinsch Fraktur
• Flinsch Germanisch, 1876
• Zentenar Fraktur, 1937, named after the 100-year anniversary of the Bauer Foundry
• Herkules-Gotisch (1898)
• Hoyer Fraktur, 1935-37
• Weiß Gotisch, 1936, E. R. Weiß
• Weiß Rundgotisch, 1937
• Weiß Fraktur, 1914
• Element, 1933
• Gotika, 1933
• Laudan Kanzlei, 1913
• Manuskript Gotisch (1905-1923; note: I thought the correct date was 1899), made after letters created by Wolfgang Hopyl in 1514.
• Leipziger Fraktur, 1909
• Wieynck Fraktur, 1912, Prof. Heinrich Wieynck
• Gotisch, 1906, Georg Barlösius
• Enge Gotisch (1880). Digital version by Gerhard Helzel done in 2008.

Bauersche Giesserei: Hauptprobe in gedrängter Form der Bauerschen Giesserei

Type specimen book by Bauersche Giesserei published ca. 1915. Open Library link. Archive.org link. Local download. Local download, colored version [27MB].

An earlier and more volumunous book of specimens is Hauptprobe der Bauerschen Giesserei in Frankfurt am main und Barcelona (Frankfurt am Main, 1907). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bauersche Schriftgiesserei

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, 1910-1912], 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, 1931; 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 typefaces 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, aka Wieynck Cursive). Other typefaces: 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 (1931), Volta Kursiv (1955), Rundgotisch (1938), Hoyer Fraktur (1935), Gotika (1934), Jubilaeums-Initialen (1902), Jubilaeums Antiqua (1902), Victoria Antiqua (1902), 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). Some of their vignettes were captured in Dieter Steffmann's Schluss Vignetten (2002). In house samples: AntiquaBrotschriften-IX-Garnitur, Einfache Kanzlei (ca. 1830), Enge halbfette Zeitungsfraktur, Fette Gotisch, Moderne halbfette Fraktur, Gotisch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bauhaus Hoch: 24. Forum Typografie

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]  ⦿

Bauhaus School
[Walter Gropius]

The Bauhaus school was founded in 1919 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. Its directors were Walter Gropius (1919-1928), H. Meyer (1928-1930) and Mies Van der Rohe (1930-1933).

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 in the 1920s), 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), BH Geometric 572 (Bitstream), P22 Bayer, R790 (Softmaker), and Dessau (by Gábor Kóthay).

Penela's pages on Bauhaus. Jürgen Siebert on Bauhaus.

Brief bio of Walter Gropius, the founder: Born to a family of architects, he himself studied architecture in Munich from 1903-1904 and in Berlin from 1905-1907, and worked for Peter Behrens until 1910. In 1919, he founded the Bauhaus School. In Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar (1919), he describes a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture, and painting into a single creative expression [Gesamtkunstwerk].

Wikipedia page. Bauhaus Museum Dessau. Bauhaus Museum Weimar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

bBox Type
[Ralph Oliver du Carrois]

Berlin-based type foundry run by Ralph du Carrois and Anja Meiners. Their friends are Jenny du Carrois, Natalie Rauch, Mark Froemberg, and they cooperate with Erik Spiekermann, FontShop, Monotype, (URW)++, Adam Twardoch, Alphabet Type, Okan Tustas, The Fontpad, TN Typography, Mota Italic, Akaki Razmadze, Hasan Abu Afash, Fontef, Lettersoup, and Thomas Maier. As of 2018, their typefaces include:

• ABeZeh (2016). A school book font family by Anja Meiners.
• Belbo (2016). A sans by Ralph du Carrois.
• FingerPaint (2015). By Ralph du Carrois.
• Fira Sans (2012-2018). By Carrois and Spiekermann, who explain this famous open source typeface: Born in 2012 in close cooperation with Erik Spiekermann. Fira Sans, the little sister of Meta---Erik's famous and worldwide well known typeface. Fira Sans was originally designed as a typeface for the Mozilla OS, Fira Sans has developed towards a standalone OpenSource project. After Mozilla withdrew from the project, we integrated small bug fixes and several requests for the 4.3 release. Additionally, Fira now offers localised features for Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian. Especially the locl BGR, which was designed in cooperation with Bulgarian type designers Botio Nikoltchev and Vassil Kateliev, is a real treat. The free typeface family Trujillo (2019) is a fork (a small modification) of Fira Sans by bBox Type GmbH, Carrois Corporate GbR and Edenspiekermann AG.
• FiraGO (2012-2018). A (free) outgrowth of Fira Sans: In 2016, the geo data provider Here chose Fira Sans as their corporate typeface. Their need for a broader language coverage especially in map applications led them to commission us with a global script extension. Thanks to our great team of designers, consultants and technicians, the project was completed by 2017. Based on the Fira Sans 4.3 glyph set, FiraGO now supports Arabic, Devanagari, Georgian, Hebrew and Thai.
• Gintronic (2016). A programming font by Mark Froemberg.
• Gute (2018). A rounded sans by Ralph du Carrois and Anja Meiners.
• Krikikrak and Krikikrak Dingbats (2016). By Jenny du Carrois.
• Lonne (2017). By Natalie Rauch.
• Mamotschka (2017). By Anja Meiners based on her mother's handwriting.
• Midori (2018). A rounded sans by Ralph du Carrois.
• Neue Galerie (2017). By Ralph du Carrois who explains: In 2010, together with Anja Knust, we reworked Mies van der Rohe's sketches of the typeface Allzweck. During this interesting and historical project we had to carefully consider when to stick to the original and when to optimise it typographically. See also du Carrois's Allzweck (2012).
• Quist (2016). A contemporary gothic sans by Ralph du Carrois.
• Raikka (2016). By Natalie Rauch.

Bea Stach

German designer of the signage / brush typeface Laken (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beata Babinska

Graphic artist in London. Designer of the face-themed typeface Graphic Face (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatrice Davies

Bio copied from Fust & Friends, a foundry set up in 2017 by Jan Middendorp in Berlin: Beatrice Naomi Davies grew up in Acquapendente, Central Italy, but as a young girl spent two years in New York and two years in Seoul, South Korea, where her grandmother lived. She attended IISAC art high school in Orvieto, Italy. In 2010 she attended the School of Visual Arts of New York, NY. She moved to Berlin in early 2012. [...] She combines her illustration work with animation, theatre, branding, logo design and hand-lettering. She became MyFonts' principal illustrator and portrayed dozens of type designers. Noticing her stylistic versatility, Fust & Friends invited her to contribute a set of dingbats and illustrations compatible with Minjoo Ham's Teddy script---which became the Teddings font. Teddings (2017) was fontified by Andreas Seidel and Minjoo Ham. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Beautiful New Fonts
[Igor Petrovic]

Facebook group that announces new fonts, run by Igor Petrovic (Berlin). The last post was in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Behö

German designer of the hand-printed typeface Ed Snowden (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

BeJota
[Bruno Jara Ahumada]

Santiago, Chile-born type designer who graduated from Universidad de Santiago de Chile in 2015 and 2016. After work at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, he joined the Latinotype foundry in Santiago. He moved to Konstanz, Germany and set up his own type foundry, BeJota in 2021.

In 2016, Bruno Jara Ahumada, Alfonso Garcia, Luciano Vergara, Daniel Hernandez and the Latinotype Team designed the roman square capital headline typeface family Assemblage.

With Luciano Vergara, he designed the angular Jurassic park style typeface Los Lana Niu (2016).

In 2018, inspired by Herb Lubalin's ITC Serif Gothic, Jorge Cisterna and Bruno Jara co-designed the layerable font family Lumiere at Latinotype.

Typefaces from 2019: Galeria (Latinotype: a monoline slab serif typeface inspired by modern art gallery buildings, museums and cultural centers where organic forms and straight lines predominate).

In 2019, Jorge Cisterna and Bruno Jara developed the vintage layerable typeface Blackberry (Los Andes). Blackberry is inspired by vintage packaging and old fashion ads. It has woodtype characteristics such as angular serifs, and light and diagonal curves.

Typefaces from 2020: Diablito One (a two-font and four dingbat-font package by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada), Galpon Pro (a great vernacular signage and/or comic book typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; with Rodrigo Araya Salas), Skippie (a comic book family by Andrey Kudryavtsev, Rodrigo Araya Salas, Bruno Jara Ahumada and Franco Jonas, and four sets of dingbats including Skippie Monster Lucha Libre and Skippie Monster Halloween).

Typefaces from 2021: Rhein (an 18-strong rounded monoline sans family with a gorgeous inline style), Loyola Next (a 14-style sans by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada), Showcase Sans (as part of a custom job for Vino Licensioso; this project includes sexy icons), Konstanz (an 8-style Bauhaus-inspired sans family), Picaflor (a titling or children's book typeface by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada), Picaflor Soft (a fine national park or children's book family of organic sans fonts by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada).

Typefaces from 2022: Garvo and Garvo Poster (6 styles each; based on old Hollywood movie posters, vintage film credit designs; Garvo pays homage to Herb Lubalin's Serif Gothic font and is named after Greta Garbo). Linkedin link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Belldorado
[Adam Bell]

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.

Creator of the octagonal family called Longhorn (2012), which includes a 3d style as well as a stencil style. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ben Bold
[Bold Studio (was: Studio BB)]

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Ben D. Sawyer

Designer and illustrator in Trier, Germany. Creator of the typeface ION (2011), which is showcased on some of his posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Kothe

Ben Kothe (Kontur Networx, Germany) created the tape font XuitsFont (2013). This is a commercial hook. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Wittner

In 2018, Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma and Timm Hartmann edited Bi-Scriptual: Typography and Graphic Design with Multiple Script Systems (Niggli). Each chapter covers a different language and is written by a graphic designer who is a native speaker of that language. The languages covered are Arabic by Lara Captan & Kristian Sarkis, Cyrillic by Eugene Yukechev, Devanagari by Vaibhav Singh, Greek by Gerry Leonaidas, Hangul (Korean) by Jeongmin Kwon, Hanzi by Keith Tam, Hebrew by Lirion Levi Turkenich & Adi Stern and Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana (Chinese and Japanese) by Mariko Takagi.

Talib (2004) is a type project of eps51, a Berlin-based graphic design studio founded in 2004 by Sascha Thoma and Ben Wittner. They developed these faux Arabic fonts: Talib Old Style (calligraphic), Talib Kulkufi, and Talib Mohandes.

In 2020, Pascal Zoghbi (29LT) and Ben Wittner released the monospaced Arabic / Latin typefaces 29 LT Baseet Variable and 28 LT Zawi Variable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benedict Herr

German type designer in Stuttgart. He created the art deco stencil typeface Crème de la rue (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benedikt Bramböck

Benedikt Bramböck studied visual communication in Austria and Switzerland and type design in The Hague. He interned and later was employed by Fontshop International in Berlin. Since 2015 he works for Alphabet Type and is part of the team behind Berlin's Typostammtisch. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benedikt Luft

Talented illustrator and designer in frankfurt, Germany, who created several display typeface for a project called Bergsee (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benedikt Matern
[Yung & Frish]

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Benjamin Behrendt

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 Broschinski

For Martina Flor's type design course in Dessau, Germany, Benjamin Broschinski created the free constructivist typeface Monarc Sans (2014) and the accompanying Monarc Serif (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Krebs
[Benjamin Krebs]

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 typefaces:

• By Franz Riedinger: Merian Fraktur (1910), Phänomen (1927), Riedingerschrift (1903), Riedinger Mediäval (1929), Riedinger Kursiv (1929), Ideal Schreibschrift (Franz Riedinger, 1927) Ideal I (Krebs staff, 1903), Brentano Fraktur Schmalfett (1917), Archiv Kursiv (1907), Altschwabacher (Werkschrift 1917, Schmalfett 1922, Mager 1923), Epoche (1912), Rohrfeder Fraktur (1909), Rediviva (1905-1907, blackletter in halbfett and schmalfett; also called Deutsche Werkschrift Rediviva), Altschwabacher Werkschrift (1918).
• By A. Auspurg: Brentano Fraktur (1916), Federzug Antiqua (1913), Nürnberger Kanzlei (1906), Schönbrunn (1928), Trajan Versalien (1928).
• By P.E. Lautenbach: Epoche (1912), Frankfurter Buchschrift (1906).
• By L. von Hohlwein: Hohlweinschrift (1907).
• By W. Grosz: Künstler Gotisch (1900).
• Hartwig Poppelbaum: Hartwig-Schrift (1928), Hartwig Werkschrift (1927).
• By the staff: Faksimile (1898 script face), Eureka, Oceana, Robusta, Ideal Schreibschrift (1903; kräftige, also called Ideal II, was added in 1909), Katalog Antiqua (1911), Komet (1907, an art nouveau typeface revived by Dimitriy Horoshkin in 2017 as DXKometa), Latina (1922: a heavy roman with tall ascenders; identical to ATF's Avil), Pompadour (1911), Reklame Elzevir (1896), Xylo (1924: for a digital version, see Xylo by ITC), Bureaukrat (1918), Buchschrift, Alte Schwabacher (1914), Karten-Gotisch (1903), Reform (1903), Viktoria Gotisch, Viktoria-Ornamente (1903), Archiv-Antiqua (+halbfette) (1908), Archiv-Kursiv (1908). [Reichardt attributes some of these to Riedinger]

Benjamin Krebs
[Benjamin Krebs]

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Benjamin Krebs blackletter fonts

Andreas Seidel lists the blackletter typefaces published by the Benjamin Krebs foundry (and I added a few):

• Normale Fraktur
• Neue Fraktur
• Bismarck Fraktur
• Kräftige Fraktur
• Caxton Type
• Fraktur Buchschrift
• Kaiser Gotisch (date unknown, before 1907). Also sold by Stempel, Kloberg, and Weisert, and as Royal Black by Reed. Seemann (1926) lists the mager (light) as available from Krebs, and the regular weight from AG für Schriftgießerei and Stempel. Digital revivals of the regular weight include Kaiser Gothic (Dan X. Solo, included in the Celtic and Medieval Alphabets book by Dover, 1998) and Kaiser-Gotisch (G. Helzel, 2001, used for sample). KaiserzeitGotisch (D. Steffmann, 2001) is a free version of the Solotype version.
• Künstler Gotisch
• Psalter Gotisch (ca. 1890). Digital revivals include TbC Psalter Gotisch (2014, Chiron), Psalter Gotisch (2012, Alter Littera), and Psalter Gotisch (2009, Paulo W).
• Neue Kanzlei
• Fette Kanzlei
• Enge Altgotisch
• Mammut Gotisch
• Robusta

Benjamin Pollach

Berlin, Germany-based designer of an experimental font for Wired Magazine (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Taschner

Muenchen, Germany-based designer of the Cyrillic simulation typeface Anom (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Weymann

Aka Jonathon the Dog, Benjamin Weymann is located in Kassel, Germany. Behance link. Yay (2011) is a thin elegant geometric avant-garde (or vogue) face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benny Demmer

German creator of the Tuscan font Beans (2009) and the italic signage typeface Garcia (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berenike Eimler

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]  ⦿

Bergfest Design

Creative art direction studio in Hamburg, Germany. They created the corporate typeface family Wempe in Antiqua and Grotesque styles. The fonts are called GDW Antiqua and GDW Grotesque (2015).

Together with Kontrastmoment, Bergfest created BMW Display, Mini Display and Rolls Royce Display (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berlin Type School

On the 29th and 30th of July 2016, the Berlin University of the Arts' UdK TypoLabor hosted the first Berlin Type School Away-Days. This was a free typography & type design festival for UdK design students and professional designers. There was no admission fee, and there were no corporate sponsors. Berlin Type School is an initiative started by Dan Reynolds and Martina Flor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berliner Type

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 type awards since 2006 are on-line. The competitions are numbered. For example, 2013 is the 45th competition. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Baringhorst

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]  ⦿

Bernd Casper

German creator of the free medieval writing font Schnitger 1680 Regular (2009), which can be had from Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Duesmann
[Uploaders.de]

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Bernd Holthusen

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]  ⦿

Bernd Hülsmann

German type designer at URW++, b. 1978, Dülmen. After studies at Fachhochschule Münster in 2009, he set up Designwerk H. In 2016, he completed the simple 4-style sans typeface families Semikolon Classic and Semikolon Plus. URW++ explains: Optimal readability by reduced, distinct letter forms. Appropriate for early readers of any age in schools and other educational institutions. SemikolonPlus minimizes the risk of confusing similar characters and therefore is predestinated for the use in text blocks, work sheets and educational games. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Krönker

Bernd Krönker (Cabinet Gold van d'Vlies, Bremen, Germany) designed Groteskschrift (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Montag

Limbach-Oberfrohna (Saxony)-based designer (b. 1987) of the calligraphic roman display typeface Chantelli Antiqua (2007) and the sans family Sansation (2008-2009) [poster of Sansation by Flavia Schreiber].

In 2013, he published the black titling sans typeface Majoris.

Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. Fontspace lunk. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Möllenstädt

The designer of the well-known Formata typeface (available at Berthold), Bernd Möllenstädt was born in 1943 in Germany and died in 2013. He lived in Westfalia, Berlin and finally Munich. He studied typesetting and graphic design, and joined the Berthold type foundry 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 typefaces in the Berthold collection.

At Dalton Maag, he was responsible for SkodaSans (2000-2001), a custom font family that may be downloaded here.

In 2016, URW publised his text typeface Classica Pro, which was unfinished when Möllenstädt died in 2013. The missing styles and details were done under the guidance of Volker Schnebel.

Full CV. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Pfannkuchen

Designer of the condensed font Linotype Lichtwerk (1999).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Plontsch

German creator of the iFontMaker font Wennsrockt (2010, a squarish hand-printed face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Volmer

Bernd Volmer is a graphic and type designer from Germany. Before attending type and media, he graduated with a BA in 2011 from the ArtEZ in Arnhem. During this time he also did an internship at Atelier Carvalho Bernau and developed his knowledge and interest in type design and typography. After graduation he started as a freelancer.

In 2013, he graduated from the Type & Media program at KABK, Den Haag. His graduation typeface, Curtis, is based on broad nib calligraphy, and manages in its palette of styles to cover the broad ground between powerful German expressionist display types and very readable text types. In my view, it is the best of the twelve typefaces of the graduation class.

In 2010, Bernd Volmer and Ateleir Carvalho Bernau published the free typeface Jean-Luc, which is named after Jean-Luc Godard. Carvalho / Bernau write: We didn't find out who originally made the lettering for these two movies. Some speculate it could have been Godard himself---Godard's interest in graphic design and typography is clear, with many of his other films employing such strong typography-only titles and intertitles. They are almost a self-sufficient entity, another character in the movie, another comment. This style of lettering is so interesting to us because it is such a clear renunciation of the pretty, classical title screens that were common in that time more conservative films. It has a more vernacular and brutishly low-brow character; this lettering comes from the street. We can not prove this at all, but we think it may be derived from the stencil letters of the Plaque Découpée Universelle (or PDU), a lettering device invented in the 1870s by a certain Joseph A. David, and first seen in France at the 1878 Exposition Universelle, where it found broad appeal and rapid adoption. We think this style of lettering was absorbed into the public domain vernacular of French lettering, and that the 2 ou 3 choses titles are derived from these quotidien lettering style, as it would seem to fit Godard's obsession with vernacular typography.

In 2019, he published the two-axis (weight and serifs) variable font Seraphs.

Co-designer wit Hannes von Doehren of Palast (Text, Display, Poster; in 2021: 36 styles).

Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Vonau
[Atelier Vonau]

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Bernhard Hörlberger

Hamburg-based designer of the fat counterless modular Porno (2009). He has lived in Austria, Kenya and the UK, and was born in 1986. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernhard Pankok

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. In 1907 Bernhard Pankok was a co-founder of the Deutscher Werkbund. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernhard Wolliger

German designer of many original pixel fonts at HI-TYPE. These include HI-Score, HI-Skyflipper.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bert Typography
[Stefan Ruetz]

This was also called A Hundred Dollars and a Dog (AHDAAD), located in Mainz, Germany. This studio, run jointly by Isabelle Gehrmann and Stefan Ruetz, did graphic design and art direction. Creators of some (free) experimental typefaces for Neo2 magazine in Spain, such as Bert (2005, a futuristic face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berthold Direct Corp
[Harvey Hunt]

Once called Berthold Types and now Berthold Direct Inc, this companay is located in Chicago, IL, and was/is run by Harvey Hunt (1949-2022) and his wife Melissa Hunt, an attorney. The font collection is aristocratic, 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.

A few months after Hunt's death, Monotype acquired the Berthold collection.

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 Möllenstadt 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, 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 typefaces 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]  ⦿

Berthold Ludewig

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]  ⦿

Berthold Types Limited
[Harvey Hunt]

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":

• Adobe (2001): This page explains: Berthold had given Adobe a non-exclusive right to include many of Berthold's typefaces in the Adobe Type Library, and to use Berthold's trademarks in connection with the Library, from 1990 through 2015. Adobe had proudly included the Berthold Library in its Adobe Type Library since 1991, only to remove them in 1999/2000. Berthold claimed that this violated the contract and sued. The judge dismissed the suit, stating that Adobe was not forced to include the Berthold typefaces.
• On Nick Curtis' site, we found this cryptic message, June 2003: "Berthold Types threatens legal action, claiming trademark infringement and dilution of our ... marks, counterfeiting, and unfair competition with Berthold Types under applicable law" because of the similarity of the names Boulevard and Boogaloo Boulevard [the latter is a font by Curtis], and City and City Slicker [the latter is a font by Curtis]. More news as things develop." Not only is this frivolous and ridiculous, but I can't understand how a reputed typographer like G. G. Lange could keep his name associated with the Berthold syndicate. More details.
• Jamie Nazaroff from Zang-o-fonts has been marketing a typeface called Omicron Delta, created by him in 2001. He was contacted by Melissa Hunt (Vice President&General Counsel, Berthold Types Limited, 47 W. Polk St. #100-340, Chicago, Illinois 60605). She claims that Delta, designed by Gustav Jaeger, has been in the Berthold library since 1983, and asked him to remove the font, which Jamie did. The reaction by various type designers is documented in this page.
• The (now extinct) German foundry PrimaFont. Press release by Berthold: "Chicago, Illinois (January 25, 2000) - As a result of legal action taken by Berthold Types Limited, PrimaFont International of Germany agreed to immediately cease the unauthorized sales of more than 300 Berthold typefaces from the PrimaFont CD-ROM, which also includes typefaces from other type foundries including Adobe, Agfa, Bauer Types, Bitstream, ITC, Letraset, Linotype and Monotype. PrimaFont infringed upon the trademark rights of Berthold Types by employing a "compatibility list" to identify the true names of the typefaces that PrimaFont sold using false names. Berthold Types actively seeks to prevent the use of compatibility lists as such use has gone unchecked in the type industry," stated Melissa Hunt, Vice President&General Counsel for Berthold Types. Adding: "The use of compatibility lists causes as much damage in the type industry as any other form of font piracy." This most recent success in Berthold Types' continued aggressive anti-piracy efforts means that PrimaFont must remove the Berthold typefaces from the PrimaFont CD-ROM. In addition, PrimaFont agreed never to sell or deal in any products that contain Berthold's typefaces and to pay Berthold an undisclosed sum."
• This page discusses the case of Cape Arcona's fonts CA Cosmo-Pluto and CA Cosmo-Saturn, which Berthold did not like (they have a typeface called Cosmos). To avoid legal costs, Cape Arcona renamed its fonts CA-Cosmolab.

Things unraveled in 2008: Berthold fonts were possibly going to be sold by Linotype, which turned out not be the case. The news of Melissa's possible departure from the font scene in 2008 prompted this response from Erik Spiekermann: As quite a few people here could testify, Melissa Hunt was very much a part of this business. I certainly have been at the receiving end of many documents written on behalf of her husband. I certainly hope she has quit the type business for good, as that may put an end to a lot of arbitrary legal actions that have cost a lot of us time, money and sleep.

Harvey Hunt was born in 1949 in Lincoln, UK. He died in Jacksonville, FL, in 2022. His wife Melissa, an attorney, is still involved in type. Ironically, Hunt's obituary mentions that Harvey will be remembered in the type industry as a maverick who fought to build a market for independent digital type, despite stiff competition and rampant online piracy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berthold Ulrich Hofmann

German penman who published Gründliche and leichte Anweissung zur Zierlichen Schreib-Kunst der lieben Jugend zum besten und auf vielfaltiges Zegehren an den Tag gegeben von Berthold Ulrich Hofmann Schreib und Rechenmeister in Nürnberg in Nürnberg in 1694. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berthold Wolpe

German type designer (b. Offenbach, 1905, d. London 1989), who studied under Rudolf Koch from 1924-27 at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach. With the help of Stanley Morison, 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 until 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

• Albertus (Monotype, 1932-1940) is a famous lapidary roman with thickened terminals. The Bitstream version is called Flareserif 821. The Ghostscript/URW free version is called A028 (2000). The Softmaker and Infinitype versions are both called Adelon. The original Monotype version is Albertus MT. The letters are flared and chiseled, and the upper case U looks like a lower case u. The northeast part of the e is too anorexic to make this typeface suitable for most work. Some say that it is great for headlines. It is reminiscent of World War II. See also Albertus Nova (2017) by Toshi Omagari for Monotype.
• Cyclone (Fanfare Press). A travel poster typeface family.
• Fanfare. Revived by Toshi Omagari at Monotype in 2017 as Wolpe Fanfare.
• Hyperion (1931, Bauersche Giesserei). Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: An angular pen-lettered design, with several unusual letters. The right hand serifs of upper- and lower-case V and W run inwards, the Y descends below the line and has a pronounced serif running to the right. Also done by Berthold in 1952.
• Pegasus (1938, Monotype). Monotype's digital revival, Wolpe Pegasus, was done in 2017 by Toshi Omagari for Monotype.
• Tempest (1936). Digital revival in 2017 by Toshi Omagari at Monotype as Wolpe Tempest.
• The blackletter typeface Sachsenwald-Gotisch (1936-1937, Monotype). In 2017, Monotype published the digital revival Sachsenwald by Toshi Omagari. Sachsenwald was originally called Bismarck Schrift, when it was first designed by Wolpe in the early 1930s.
• The blackletter typeface Deutschmeister (1934, Wagner&Schmidt, Ludwig Wagner). Revival by Gerhard Helzel in 2009. Warning: The German type community believes that this typeface was not designed by Wolpe, so further research is needed. See also the revival called Deutschmeister by Ralph M. Unger in 20017.
• Decorata (1950).
• Johnston's Sans Serif Italic (1973).
• LTB Italic (1973). Done for the London Transport, and unpublished.

In 2017, Toshi Omagari designed the Wolpe Collection for Monotype, all based on Berthold Wolpe's distinctive typefaces: Wolpe Pegasus, Wolpe Tempest, Wolpe Fanfare, Sachsenwald, Albertus Nova.

Bio at Klingspor. FontShop link. Wiki page. Linotype page.

View Berthold Wolpe's typefaces. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bertholdgate I: Die selbsternannten Rechtsnachfolger der Aktiengesellschaft H. Berthold AG

German language article by Ulrich Stiehl regarding the question: Who is the legal successor of H. Berthold AG? And a damning indictment of the Hunts who run Berthold Types in Chicago. The main dates in this sad case, beautifully researched by Stiehl:

• 1858: Hermann Berthold (1831-1904) founds the company in Berlin.
• 1896: The company becomes Aktiengesellschaft H. Berthold AG.
• 1896-1960s: The company operates from Berlin and Stuttgart under the name H. Berthold AG Schriftgiesserei und Messelinienfabrik.
• 1960s-1993: The company uses the name H. Berthold AG.
• 1993: H. Berthold AG files for bankruptcy. Its main business at that point was the sale of phototypesetting machines, not fonts, and that business had come to a standstill. The 1800 fonts at the time of the bankruptcy are all listed in Stiehl's document.
• 1993: The bankrupt company had incredible debts, and no one was interested in taking over those debts. So, the bankruptcy court in Berlin decided to liquidate the company. There is no legal successor (Rechtsnachfolger). For a period of 30 years after 1993, any legal successor would have to take care of the debts.
• 1994-now: Several companies stake out claims of being legal successors or at least copyright owners of Berthold fonts:
  • Softmaker GmbH in Nürnberg, owned by Martin Kotulla. His 59 Euro CD with 10,000 fonts (the best buy in the business) has over 1,000 of Berthold's 1,800 fonts. The names were changed. Softmaker claims to have copyright to these fonts.
  • Berthold Types Limited, Chicago, owned by Harvey and Melissa Hunt: The CD "Exklusiv Collection" has 800 of the 1,800 Berthold fonts but costs 6350 Euros. This outfit uses the old Berthold names. Incredibly, Berthold Types claims to have the copyright, and states that it is the legal successor of H. Berthold AG. (How can this be, if they never assumed the debts?) To complicxate matters, the company started calling itself Berthold Direct Corp in 2005.
  • Franzis Verlag GmbH, owned by Werner Mützel and others: The CD "1800 Profischriften für Windows" (16 Euros, 4 Euros on Ebay) has 1,800 fonts, of which 1,200 (renamed, though) are from the Berthold collection. Franzis claims to have copyright to these fonts. Note: these fonts are qualitywise indistinguishable from the Berthold Types collection.
  • FontStuff Ltd, London, or Bertlib Corporation, a post office box company which started up a font business on the web in 2005 based on the old Berthold collection. Just as Berthold Types Limited, they say that they are the legal successors of H. Berthold AG, and that the copyright is theirs. The web site disappeared at the end of 2005 though. Stiehl belives that the company was a front for Klaus-Dieter Bartel's "Babylon Schrift Kontor" (a defunct foundry). Bartel died recently.

BERTLib (Fontstuff)

Fontstuff, est. 2005, sells BERTLib, the "Berlin Electronically Remastered Type Library". It has offices in London. Berthold, which folded in 1993, had a 2000+ type collection, which came in the hands of Freydank, Körbis, Pillich, Talke GbR in 1996 who lent it out to Berthold PrePress GmbH in 1997 under the name The Berthold Type Collection. Babylon Schrift Kontor GmbH, the company of Klaus Bartels, offered type 1 fonts from this collection for sale since 2000, but it disappeared some time later when Bartels died. BERTLib acquired the original Ikarus data of the Berthold Type Collection (over 2000 fonts) and set out to make high quality OpenType fonts with full support of all European languages, and fully Unicode-compliant. Slowly, these fonts are now being released by BERTLib. Not to be confused with Berthold Types Ltd from Chicago, who produced its library from Berthold type 1 data, not Ikarus data, of the same collection. Because of typename protection by Berthold Types, BERTLib had to change some font names. Some fonts also cover Cyrillic and Greek, but Maltese and Turkish are standard in all typefaces. More research needs to be done about the Berthold bankruptcy in 1993. They had a lot of debts. How can two different companies "acquire" or "get" the rights and sources of their collection? Who took care of the debts? Were there some underhanded deals? BERTLib twice refused to send me a list of types to which their own names can be matched. No names of digitizers or font BERTLib font designers or BERTLib owners are given. And finally, one has to pay 2.50 Euros just to see a sample of a font. All that makes me think that this company is one of businessmen rather than passionate type designers. Typefaces from these type designers/foundries have been or are being converted right now: Aldo Novarese, American Typefounders, Bernd Möllenstädt, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Bruce Rogers, Claude Garamond, David Quay, Eric Gill, Erik Spiekermann, Facsimilie Fonts, Frederic Warde, Friedrich Berthold, Georg Trump, Giambattista Bodoni, Gustav Jaeger, Günter Gerhard Lange, Hermann Hoffmann, Herbert Post, Inland Type foundry of St. Louis, John Baskerville, Justus Erich Walbaum, Karl Gerstner, Louis Oppenheim, Morris Fuller Benton, Nicolas Cochin, Otl Aicher, Schriftenatelier Taufkirchen, Thomas Maitland Cleland, William Caslon. I created this page with remarks on their fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bertram Kaiser
[Kaiser Type]

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Beta Bi

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)
[Lecter Johnson]

Lecter Johnson (Betterfear.us) published many free fonts between 2007-2012. At Behance, we find the name John Thorn (Germany) and a mention of Hamburg, but also a reference to Greatwhite in Beirut, Lebanon.

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 (hand-printed), 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 Yonia (rounded script family loaded with opentype features), XXII Goregrinder, XXII Grober Bleistift (2013, marker font), XXII Centar (a sans family with a free regular style), XXII Totenkult (2012), XXII Blackened Wood (2013), XXII Candylove (heavy signage or packaging script), 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 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.

Typefaces from 2014: XXII YeahScript (signage script).

Typefaces from 2015: XXII Geom (a geometric sans typeface family), XXII Awesome Script (for signage).

Typefaces from 2016: XXII Neue Norm (techno sans), XXII Cool Script, XXII Geom (a geometric sans typeface family), XXII Grober Pinsel (brush typeface).

Typefaces from 2017: XXII Neue Norm Rounded, XXII InAshes (grungy blackletter).

Typefaces from 2018: XXII Geom Slab.

Klingspor link. Alternate URL. Behance link. Dafont link. Another Behance link. Old URL. Another Dafont link Yet another Behance link. And a final Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Betty Nane

Berlin, Germany-based designer of tthe calligraphic script typeface Gingertea Script (2016) and Vintage Stamps One (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beuron
[Keno Wehr]

The free Beuron package maintained by Keno Wehr (University of Oldenburg, Germany) provides the typeface used in the works of the Beuron art school for use with TeX and LaTeX. It is a monumental script consisting of capital letters only. The fonts are provided as Metafont sources and in the Type 1 format. This package was launched in 2016, and includes suitable font selection commands for use with LaTeX.

Wehr explains Beuronese art: Beuronese art was a reform movement of Christian art, established by Peter Lenz (1832-1928) and Jakob Wueger (1829-1892), who were friends from their studies in Munich, during their stay in Rome in the 1860s. On the one hand, it arose from the art of the Nazarene movement, but on the other hand, it turned away from the naturalism of the Romantic period and strove for a more geometrically stylized depiction of Christian themes. An important impact on this had the examination of ancient Egyptian art, which becomes noticable especially by a far-reaching renunciation of spatial depth in depiction. Lenz and Wueger entered the Benedictine abbey of Beuron (near Sigmaringen in Southern Germany) in 1872 and 1870 respectively, where they worked as Pater Desiderius and Pater Gabriel. Beuronese art was essentially carried by the circle of their pupils from the monastery in the following decades up to the 1930s. The Beuronese artists were not only commissioned to paint and furnish the monastery of Beuron itself, reestablished in 1863, but also quite a lot of other churches and monasteries in several countries of Europe. The Beuron art school reached its summit about 1900, when it received attention by the world of art beyond the religious milieu through the participation in various exhibitions. Due to the Second World War and church renovations in the following period many works of Beuronese art were partially or totally destroyed. Today remaining works can be seen for instance in Beuron (Chapel of St Maurus1 and Archabbey of St Martin), Ruedesheim am Rhein (Abbey of St Hildegard), Prague (churches of the former abbeys of Emaus and St Gabriel), but also in America in Conception/Missouri (Basilica of the Immaculate Conception). The murals painted by the artists of the Beuron school were provided with monumental inscriptions, taken from the Holy Bible or the prayer tradition of the Church, which support the didactic character of the paintings. For these paintings a script with some striking features was used, recurring in the most murals and also craft objects of the school with only minor variations. Unfortunately the art-historic literature dealing with Beuronese art says absolutely nothing about this script, although it constitutes obviously an integral part of that art. So the origin of the script is a matter of conjecture. Possibly it is in influenced by the inscriptions of early Christian basilicas in Italy. The Beuron typeface is recommended for headings and ornaments in prayer books, hymnals and the like.

References: Hubert Krins: Die Kunst der Beuroner Schule. Wie ein Lichtblick vom Himmel, Beuron: Beuroner Kunstverlag, 1998. Harald Siebenmorgen: Die Anfaenge der Beuroner Kunstschule. Peter Lenz und Jakob Wueger 1850-1875. Ein Beitrag zur Genese der Formabstraktion in der Moderne, Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1983. [Google] [More]  ⦿

B.G. Teubner

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]  ⦿

Bianca Berning

Graduate of the MA Typeface Design program at the University of Reading in 2011 who was born in Germany. Her graduation typeface was Clint (2011), a text family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Clint is characterized by multiple personalities, with asymmetric serifs, a daring axis, some timid ball terminals, and other exogenetic details.

Bianca specializes in the technical aspects of type design. As a font engineer with a background in civil engineering, communication and typeface design, she joined the Brixton, UK-based Dalton Maag type foundry in 2011. Until 2018 she headed their Skills & Process team, responsible for training and development, knowledge management, and for the implementation of font development processes. In 2018, she was appointed Creative Director and became responsible for ensuring that Dalton Maag remains at the forefront of type innovation. She directed the design of brand typefaces and complex type systems for international clients such as the Amazon, AT+T, BBC, Bodyform, Goldman Sachs [Goldman Sans], and Jacobs Engineering Group [Jacobs Chronos], and oversaw the design and refinement of wordmarks and font modifications.

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, at ATypI 2017 in Montreal and at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bianca Schlich
[Bad Taste Design]

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Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG
[Sigrid Hecker]

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]  ⦿

Bibliothekarische Sonderzeichen

Free truetype fonts with library symbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bildung Hessen
[Brigitte Betz]

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]  ⦿

Bill Dettering
[SWFTE]

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Bionic Type Engineering (or: Bionic Systems)
[Malte Haust]

Malte Haust (b. 1974, Kassel) studied graphic design at FH Duesseldorf from 1995 until 2002. With Doris Fürst, he founded Bionic Systems in 1999 in Duesseldorf, using the nicknames juici (for Doris) and dePhrag2.0 (for Malte).

At T26, he published Kernfusion, SynKro (2000, dot matrix font), Cyberwar (2000), Comsat (2000, a stencil family), Comsat Navy (2000), InterFacer (1998) and Doris Orange (2000, free at Maniackers).

Full font list in 2002: 01.MB Truth, Alphabot, BTEBioterminal family (by Malte Haus), Comsat, Comsat Navy, Comsat Breakdown, Cyberwar, Doris Orange, Interfacer, Kernfusion, Neo Tokio, SynKro, Team Riders, Technik, Überform.

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Birte Ludwig

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
[Ralf Steinsträsser]

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]  ⦿

Bjoern Karnebogen

Author of the (German) thesis Type and Image (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Björn Börris Peters

German graphic and type designer. He graduated in visual 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. Klingspor link. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Björn Danzke

German designer of the destructionist typeface Georg (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Björn Gogalla
[Letter Edit]

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Björn Hansen

German Linotype designer of Algologfont (1997). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Björn Kohl
[AgenturBM]

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Björn Löbach

German designer of the free hand-printed font Typooo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blackletter on German bank notes

100 Reichsmark from 1908, 20 Million Reichsmark from 1923, 50 Reichsmark in 1933 and 100 reichsmark in 1935. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blackmoon Foundry (was: La Letteria, or: Anatole Type Foundry)
[Elena Albertoni]

Elena Albertoni (Blackmoon Foundry, and before that, La Letteria, and before that, Anatole Type Foundry, est. 2005) 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, where she still lives. She cofounded Anatole Type Foundry with Pascal Duez. La Letteria is located in Berlin. In 2011, Elena cofounded LetterinBerlin, a studio dedicated to handmade and digital design, with a special focus on lettering and type-design.

At the Rencontres de Lure 2005, she spoke about OpenType and Latin characters.

Her typefaces:

• The connected script typeface Dolce (2005), which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.
• Dyna (2009). A connected feminine script. Review of Dolce & Dyna.
• Kigara.
• Scritta (connected calligraphic script). Followed by Scritta Nuova (2011): a rhythmic upright connected script, which evokes retro calligraphic styles taught in Italian schools around the 1950s.
• Helene (squarish face).
• Valora.
• Schneider.
• Gregoria. A Gregorian chant font that won an award at TDC2 2007.
• Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010). An eight-style sans family of great utility, co-designed with Fred Bordfeld; Cyrillic included.
• Acuta (2010). An all-purpose type family.
• Nouvelle Vague (2011). A connected display script along the lines of Mistral.
• Spinnaker (2011). A sans design based on French and UK lettering found on posters for travel by ship.
• The plump and curvy script typeface Molle (2012, Google Web Fonts).
• Kiez (2016, The Blackmoon Foundry).
• Vidal (2018). A wide sans with low contrast and medium-to-tall ascenders.
• Coast (2018). An almost monoline sans inspired by enamel signs from the 1920s.

Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Blondina Elms Pastel

Blondina lived and worked in Martinique, France for eight years. She graduated in 1999 from Insitut régional d'art visuel de la Martinique (IRAVM). Blondina founded Atelier Elms in Cave Hill, Barbados, in 2002. Her clients can be found in the United States, the British Virgin Islands, Martinique, Dominica and Barbados. She returned to settle in Barbados in November 2003. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Her graduation typeface there was Naej (2011), a typeface family for recreational children's storybooks. Lively and bouncy, it blends script and sans into a refreshing breakfast. She calls the family calligraphic and neohumanist. Blondina finally published Naej in 2012 at a German foundry, URW.

In 2013, she graduated from the Plantin Institute's type design program under Frank E. Blokland. Her graduation typeface there was the children's storybook font Calina. At Plantin, she also attempted a Jacques Francois rosart revival.

She writes that for Google Fonts, she developed Dinah (for Latin and Devanagari), but there is no record of that at Google Fonts.

Custom fonts by Blondina include Barefoot (for bare Greetings greeting cards)

Presently, she is a PhD student at the Aix-Marseille University, and is based in Aix-en-Provence. Since 2015, she organizes Typote, mobile workshops for training in calligraphy, lettering, typeface design and graphic design. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

BMW Motorrad

A corporate sans designed in 2007 by URW for BMW. Download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boaz Balachsan

Designer in Berlin who made the handcrafted typeface Digital Boaz in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bobsmade
[Anne Schröder]

Erfurt, Germany-based creator (b. 1987) of Madsch (2008) and bobsmade font (2007, 3d). Alternate URL. Link at Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bold Studio (was: Studio BB)
[Ben Bold]

Lake Konstanz, Germany-based designer of these typefaces:

• The pixel typeface BB Bitmap (2008, for a rock band).
• The BB Roller Mono Pro typeface family (2013-2017, +Text, +TextSoft +Headline, +HeadlineSoft).
• The octagonal typeface system BB Strata (2015-2018). See also BB Strata Pro (2019).
• BBT Series 2011-2014: Various contributions, including numerals, for clock typography.
• BB Studio Pro (2013-2017). A sans family, with Greek, Cyrillic, Mono and Stencil substyles. See also BB Studio Round Pro (2013-2017).
• BB Torsos Pro (2019). Based on the shape and proportion of the human body. Interpolations between styles are mathematically precise and innovative.
• Noname Pro (2019).
• BB Manual Mono Pro (2020). At 60 fonts, probably the largest monospaced typeface in the world in 2020. The glyphs are organic, monowidth and simple.
• BB Anonym Pro (2020). A rounded version of Noname (2019).
• BB Casual Pro (2020). A 34-style sans.

BOODAS.DE
[Boris Schandert]

Sankt Augustin, Germany-based creator (b. 1981) of the pixel typeface 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
[Wolfgang Reifarth]

Free Booknet Architekt and BOOKNETFeather1 truetype fonts TTF by Wolfgang Reifarth from Kelkheim, Germany. Also a handwriting truetype font service. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boris Brumnjak

Boris Brumnjak (b. Berlin, 1977, d. 2017) was a graphic designer who studied at LetteVerein Berlin until 1999. He designed the monospace retrotech pixel font Facsimile at T-26 in 2001. Since 2000, he ran brumnjak.com / grappa blotto in Berlin, which was involved in corporate design. He practiced design in Berlin, Wuppertal and Chicago.

Obituary by Juergen Siebert. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Boris Dworschak

Pforzheim-based Boris Dworschak graduated in 2003 from the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim, Germany. Designer at Stereo Typehaus of Zentrale (2004, a 6-weight sans), Sanford Script (2004, curly), Partisan East (Cyrillic simulation face), Partisan West, Basic, Angel Dust (2004) and Master (2004).

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 typeface Exakt, and the mechanical typefaces Ikiru Sans and Ikiru Serif (2009) at Die Gestalten.

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Boris Kahl

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):

• Athletic lettering: Sports (grungy, with Lars Harmsen), Sports Skinny.
• Blackletter: Frakturbo, Fraktendon (=Fraktur+Clarendon, co-designed with Harmsen)
• Dingbats: Mr. J. Smith Eye, Mr. J. Smith Head, Mr. J. Smith Mouth, Mr. J. Smith Nose, and Mr. J. Smith Wanted are experimental dingbat typefaces by Nikolaii Renger, based on an idea of Lars Harmsen, and digitized by Ulrich Weiss and Boris Kahl. These won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition. Multigenic are a collection of black and white boxes and rectangles (free).
• Dot matrix typefaces: C64 (original Commodore 64 font), Doublepoint (five styles), Monopoint (three styles), Rollerblind, Rollerblind Grid
• Grungy: Mud (free), Psycho, Poke
• Hand-drawn: Decomic Oblique
• LED style: Digibeck, Strichcode (a family co-designed with Harmsen).
• Kitchen tile typefaces: Bus, Bus PI.
• Patriot family, done with Lars Harmsen: Saddam, Commander Robot, Fidel, Slobbodan, Osama, George.
• Pixel typefaces: Amiga, Screeny, Pixel, C64, Fette Pixel
• Script typefaces: Filou (free, three styles)
• Techno typefaces: DigiBo, Teckbo (2002. Boris Kahl writes: Retro-Avant-Garde for Club-Flyer-Honks and Plastic-Pussy-Chicks)
• Uncial: Chaucer

free fonts at Dafont include Filou Medium (2010, calligraphic).

View Boris Kahl's typefaces.

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Boris Kochan

Principal of Kochan & Partner Design Agency in München, b. 1962. Codesigner with Robert Strauch (Lazydogs Type Foundry, München, Germany) of Streets of London (2013), a lapidary typeface family that extends an alphabet created by David Kindersley for London's street signs. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled Design and Identity---Between global types and local characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boris Moser
[Helldunkel]

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Boris Schandert
[BOODAS.DE]

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Boris Schrage
[Loreley Design]

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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]  ⦿

Botio Nikoltchev
[Lettersoup]

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Braille DIN
[Jochen Evertz]

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
[Sven Winterstein]

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
[Guido Schneider]

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), Matula (G. Schneider, 1997), Nobody (G. Schneider), Paul D (Guido Schneider, 1996), Sanctus, SubZero (Guido Schneider, 1996), SynkopSemi, Veto, Visitor (R. Zaremba, 1996), BiaBia (very avant-garde, G. Schneider, 1996), Corpa Gothic (sold by URW++), Cuba (G. Schneider, 1997), Hone (Piano Dog, 1996), Saw, SoloSans (G. Schneider, 1996), Souper, Styptic, Fluxgold (slabserif, G. Schneider 1999), Rotwang (G. Schneider 1998), Styptic (Tuschemann, 1995), Stoneman (Tuschemann, 1998), Jaruselsky (1997, G. Schneider). Well, that is, these fonts have just the basic alphabet and all numbers 3 and 6 have been removed. The full versions are ultra-expensive, at about 110DM per weight (typically, 4 weights per font). More fonts: Temptice (dingbat by A. Groborsch/G. Schneider 98/99, 80DM), Tara (G. Schneider, 1998, 240DM), Corpa Serif (G. Schneider 1998), Fiona Serif, Slab and Script family (2003, G. Schneider). URW marketed these fonts: BF Anorexia, BF Corpa Gothic, BF Corpa Serif, BF Cuba, BF Fluxgold, BF Invicta, BF Jaruselsky, BF Matula, BF Nobody, BF Paul'D, BF Rotwang, BF Solo Sans, BF Stoneman, BF Stypic, BF SubZero, BF Tara.

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 typeface by Schneider), BF Corpa Gothic (a DIN-like family done in 1997 by Schneider), Corpa Gothic Pro (a 2019 revival of Corpa Gothic), BF Corpa Serif (1997, a slab serif family by Schneider), BF Cuba (a pixel typeface 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 typeface by Guido Schneider), BF Nobody (1995, a roman typeface by Schneider with pointy experimental serifs), BF Paul D (a grunge blackletter typeface by Schneider), BF Rotwang (1997, a transitional typeface by Guido Schneider), BF Solo Sans (1995, Schneider's grotesk family), BF Stoneman (1997, a decorative poster typeface by Schneider), BF Styptic (a grunge paperclip typeface 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).

Typefaces from 2018: BF Rotwang Pro (a redesign by Schneider of his 1997 typeface, BF Rotwang; named after C.L. Rotwang, the inventor of the Mensch-Maschine from the film Metropolis (1925/1926), BF Rotwang relates to the high-contrast transitional and didone styles), BF Konkret Grotesk Pro (a 16-style grotesk family by Guido Schneider with over 1500 glyphs per font).

Typefaces from 2021: BF Garant (a 20-style geometric sans with open counters, tapered spurs and diagonal cut ascenders and descenders).

Klingspor link.

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