TypeManufactur (was: GST Georg Salden Typedesign)

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TypeManufactur (was: GST Georg Salden Typedesign) [Georg Salden] Born in Essen, Germany, in 1930, Georg Salden is the nephew of Helmut Salden (1910-1996), a book and font designer in the Netherlands and a resistance fighter against Hitler. From 1950 until 1954, Georg studied advertising design at the Folkwang School in Essen (1950-1954). Later, he taught typography for five years at Folkwang. Until 1971, he was a freelance graphic designer specializing in typography and calligraphy. In 1966, he received an award in the international VGC competition in New York for the headline typeface York. He completed three fat weights of York (VGC) and four heavy weightys of Angular (VGC) before 1973. At Berthold AG in Berlin, he completed the phototypes Transit in 1969 and Daphne in 1970. From 1971 onwards, he cooperated with six German and 24 international foundries, producing about ten fonts per year, under the name GST (Georg Salden Types) and later Context-GmbH. For example, he did 35 fonts for Fototransit. Between 1972 and 1984, he created these typefaces: Aster 4.2, Polo (7 styles), Bilbao, Caslon (4 styles), Basta (5 styles), Stresemann (8 styles), Parabella, Mäander, Brasil (8 styles), Magnet, Hansa, Bonjour, Tandem, Futuranea (a rounded set of 18 styles; royalties for the name were paid to Bauersche Giesserei), Congress (6 styles), Ready, Salut, Loreley (4 styles), Loretta (4 styles), Gordon (7 styles), Volante, Tap (3 styles), Sketchy (4 styles), Gallopp, 1 Videon, Deutschkurrent, Corvey (2 styles), Klicker and Dalli (2 styles). In 1977, he converted some of his headline typefaces into text fonts for the Diatronic, spending a lot of time on the kerning tables. Before 1988, he drew Basta, Polo, Tap, Turbo, Gordon, Brasil, and Dalli. These were digitized by hand between 1989 and 1992 on the Ikarus system. The families were also expanded. For example, just for Polo, we have these styles: 11, 22, 66, 77, G, Fino, schmal, eng, extracondensed, kyrillisch and griechisch, with old style and lining figures in both Mac PostScript and PC truetype formats. New typefaces in this productive period include Carree, Axiom, Votum, Zitat, Rolls, Essenz, Planet, Trigon, and Deutschkurrent. Videon got four new heavy weights, and Daphne was redesigned for use as a text typeface. In 2003, he set up Typemanufactur which he managed until 2008 with Daniel Resing and Tanja Link. Typemanufactur sold the GST typeface library. In 2009, Ludwig Uebele took over this company by himself. He takes care of the web presence, the font licensing, web font production, opentype production and all managerial aspects. After the end of all contracts with VGC, Berthold AG and GST/Context GmbH, all rights of the font collection belong to Georg himself. Nowadays, he is critical of the lack of quality in recently designed typefaces. In FontBlog, we find a discussion of the Polo vs. Meta controversy, in German, with a reply by Erik Spiekermann who says that his FF Meta was influenced by many types, not just Polo, but also Syntax, News Gothic and Akzidenz Grotesk. The success of Polo reaches beyond FF Meta. For example, Walter Brendel's Glasgow Serial is also based on Polo. Typophile discussion. Also noteworthy is Georg's success in the removal of Revis (2011, Coen Hofmann, URW) from the URW library as it was judged too close to Daphne. Scans and technical discussions of some of his typefaces: Daphne is a formal script face. It can be bought now from Ludwig Type whodse latest digital version, Daphne Script, is from 2013. GST Basta is an elegant almost didone family, with sharp serifs and awnings. Polo (1972-1976) was the basis of the 1993 Glasgow Serial series by Brendel / Softmaker / Infinitype, and according to some, it was also an ancestor of FF Meta. GST Polo is Georg Salden's main grotesk sans workhorse family. It contains, among many other styles, Polo Eng, Condensed and Cyrillic. GST Gordon is a rounded slab serif family, with a Kursiv subset thrown in. GST Dalli is a brush typeface. GST Tap is a typewriter family. GST Turbo is a rounded family. GST Brasil is a slightly flared sans family. GST Axiom is another sans family. GST Carree is a techno family. Designed in 2012, it can be bought at Ludwig Type. GST Votum is a text family. GST Salden Antiqua is just that, an antiqua. GST Zitat is another antiqua family. GST Rolls is a display type with exaggerated ink traps. GST Planet is a grotesk family with organic elements. Deutsch Kurrent (1983) is a school script. The octagonal typeface Videon was created in 2012. Essenz. RAN or Reformierte Anfängerschrift (2016). A school font designed by Georg Salden and produced at URW by Volker Schnebel. In 1993, Benjamin Kempas made a 12-minute documentary in Georg Salden's life and work entitled Der Schriftgelehrte. Behance link. Fontshop link. Klingspor link. Bio. Wikipedia link. What A Character is a web site dedicated to Salden's fonts.	EXTERNAL LINKS TypeManufactur (was: GST Georg Salden Typedesign) Behance page Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Photo and film type era ⦿ Brush script typefaces ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ School fonts ⦿ Caslon ⦿