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The BERTLib Library

The fonts made by BERTLib, which claims to have "acquired" all typeface sources from the bankrupt Berthold company. But so does BertholdTypes in Chicago, so I am confused. BERTLib had to change some font names, so here are some quick notes on their library.

• Aldo Novarese
  • Eurostile ST.
  • Remus ST: This is the sports lettering font Colossal (or Colossalis) from 1984.
• American Typefounders
  • News Gothic ST.
• Bernd Möllenstädt
  • TNT Form (+Condensed) ST: This is Formata.
• Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
  • Cheltenham Old Style ST.
• Bruce Rogers
  • Pegasus XP: Centaur (by Bruce Rogers and Frederic Warde).
• Claude Garamond
  • Garamond Condensed ST.
  • Garamond XP.
• David Quay
  • Ideal Sans ST.
• Eric Gill
  • London Sans ST: This is Gill Sans.
• Erik Spiekermann
  • Adlon Sans ST: This is Block Berthold by Heinz Hoffmann.
  • Adlon Serif ST: This is Lo-Type (1913, Louis Oppenheim). Adaptation by Spiekermann for Berthold in 1980.
• Facsimilie Fonts
  • Handel Gothic ST.
• Frederic Warde
  • Pegasus XP (with Bruce Rogers): Centaur.
• Friedrich Berthold
  • Primus Antiqua ST: I have no idea who Friedrich Berthold is. The original founder of Berthold was Hermann Berthold.
• Georg Trump
  • Trump Tower ST: This must be Trump's athletic lettering face City (1930).
• Giambattista Bodoni
  • Bodoni XP.
  • Bodoni Text XP.
  • Bodoni Condensed ST.
• Gustav Jaeger
  • Cosmea ST: This could be Jaeger's Cosmos.
  • Dekora ST: A sans family, possibly based on Jaeger's Delta.
• Günter Gerhard Lange
  • Caslon Text XP: this is Lange's Caslon Buch , aka Berthold Caslon Book.
  • Elega ST.
  • Mirage Condensed ST.
  • Mirage New XP.
  • Mirage XP.
  • Standard Grotesk Next ST.
  • Supersonic ST.
• Heinz Hoffmann
  • Adlon Sans ST: Digitized by Erik Spiekermann.
• Herbert Post
  • Tomos Antiqua ST.
• Inland Typefoundry of St. Louis
  • Stonewall ST: An Egyptian face.
• John Baskerville
  • Baskerville XP.
  • Baskerville Text XP.
• Justus Erich Walbaum
  • Walbaum XP.
  • Walbaum Text XP.
• Karl Gerstner
  • KG Vera ST: Is this Gerstner Original from 1987?
  • KG Privata ST.
• Louis Oppenheim
  • Adlon Serif ST: This is Lo-Type (1913, Louis Oppenheim). Adaptation by Spiekermann for Berthold in 1980. The BERTLib page credits this to Louis Oppenheimer--maybe related to Robert Oppenheimert, the inventor of the atom bomb?
• Morris Fuller Benton
  • Cheltenham Old Style ST.
  • Franklin Gothic Three ST.
  • Garamont Amsterdam XP.
• Nicolas Cochin
  • Le Cochin ST.
• Otl Aicher
  • Allgau Sans ST: Rotis (1988).
• Schriftenatelier Taufkirchen
  • Needleprinter Schrift ST.
  • Lateinische Ausgangsschrift Pro: A script for school kids.
  • Standard Grotesk Condensed ST.
  • Standard Grotesk Extended ST.
  • Standard Grotesk Extra Condensed ST.
  • Standard Grotesk ST.
  • Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift Pro: A script for school kids.
• Thomas Maitland Cleland
  • Garamont Amsterdam XP.
• Various designs
  • Caslon Text XP: Digitized by G.G. Lange.
• William Caslon
  • Europa Grotesk ST.
  • Europa Grotesk Condensed ST.