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Franz Riedinger

Designer at the Benjamin Krebs foundry who made Epoche (1912---well, I think this was by Eduard Lautenbach), Merian Fraktur (1910), Phänomen (1927, a heavy informal script), Ideal Schreibschrift (1927, a condensed formal script; this was later passed to Stempel), Riedingerschrift (1903: for a digital version, see Ridinger Std (2012, Ralph Unger)), Riedinger Mediäval (1929), Rohrfeder Fraktur (1909), Rediviva (1905, a Schwabacher published by Benjamin Krebs; a digital revival by Dieter Steffmann in 2002 is also called Rediviva), Altschwabacher Werkschrift (1918; followed by Altschwabacher mager in 1923 and Altschwabacher schmalfett in 1922; also, Altschwabacher Werkschrift Angangsbuchstaben). Reichardt also credits him with Rediviva (1905; halbfett 1906, schmalfett 1907), Riedinger Kursiv (1929), Riedinger Mediäval halbfett (1929), and Brentano Fraktur schmalfett (1917).

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file name: Ralph M Unger Ridinger Std 2012 after Franz Riedinger Riedingerschrift 1906


file name: Ralph M Unger Ridinger Std 2012 after Franz Riedinger Riedingerschrift 1906b


file name: Benjamin Krebs Nachfolger Merian Fraktur 1909


file name: Dieter Steffmann Rediviva 2002 after Franz Riedinger Krebs Rediviva 1905


file name: Benjamin Krebs Nachfolger Alt Schwabacher Werkschrift Angangsbuchstaben


file name: Benjamin Krebs Nachfolger Alt Schwabacher Werkschrift


file name: Benjamin Krebs Nachfolger Deutsche Werkschrift Rediviva 1905







Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html