Walter Höhnisch
Type designer born in Dresden in 1906, who lives in Lehre-Flechtorf near Braunschweig. He studied under Rudolf Koch in Offenbach in 1927 and worked at the Ludwig&Mayer Type Foundry as type designer from 1930-1971. His typefaces: - Antiqua die Schlanke (1938-1939), a modern family. Has Halbfett (1936), Fett (1938), Kursiv (1939).
- Candida Italic (Kursiv, Kursiv fett) (1937: an italic to accompany Erbar's Candida from 1936), Candida Schmalmager (1957). Digital versions by Bitstream, URW, Tilde, Scangraphic, Elsner&Flake, Monotype, Adobe, Paratype and Linotype.
- Express (1957): a brush typeface extended to Cyrillic in 2002 by Natalya Vasilyeva).
- Fette National (1934). This Schaftstiefelgrotesk or Gotische Grotesk wasmade in stages: National (1934), National schräg (1937), National Werk-Garnitur (1938), National halbfett (1934), National fett (1934), National schmalmager (1937), National schmalhalbfett (1933), National licht (1935). For a digital revival, see Christoph Schwedhelm's Fette National (2013) and Peter Wiegel's Fette National Fraktur (2015).
- Hallo Kursiv (1959, Ludwig&Mayer).
- National (1933-1934, Ludwig&Mayer). This Schaftstiefelgrotesk or Gotische Grotesk was made in stages: National (1934), National schräg (1937), National Werk-Garnitur (1938), National halbfett (1934), National fett (1934), National schmalmager (1937), National schmalhalbfett (1933), National licht (1935). Gotisch-National Werkschsrift (1934). For a digital revival, see Christoph Schwedhelm's Fette National (2013).
- Skizze (1935; aka Sketch?): this script was done at Ludwig&Mayer. For digital revivals, see, e.g., RMU Skizze (2021, Ralph M. Unger).
- Slender (1939).
- Stop (1939): a fat brush face. Revived in 2017 by Peter Wiegel as Halt.
- Tempo (1930).
- [Deutsche] Werbeschrift (1933). A script in the style of the school scripts Sütterlin and Kurrent. Revived in 2020-2021 by Lewis McGuffie as Jooks Script.
Klingspor link. Linotype page.
|
EXTERNAL LINKS
Walter Höhnisch
[Designer info]
Klingspor Museum page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search
INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿
Type designers ⦿
Blackletter fonts ⦿
Brush script typefaces ⦿
German type scene ⦿
School fonts ⦿
|