Peter Schoeffer

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Peter Schoeffer Peter Schöeffer, a calligrapher, was an assistant to Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, through the years of preparation necessary for the printing of the 42 line Bible, in 1455. Schöeffer designed the font under Gutenberg's supervision, during the preceding years. The font was a very accurate imitation of the best manuscript style of the period, and it contained nearly 300 letters, ligatures, and abbreviations. Later in 1455, Gutenberg lost his business to Johann Füst, but Schöeffer stayed on with the new owner. In 1459, Schöeffer designed the first "transitional" typeface from Gothic to Roman and it was used in the publication of Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by Guillaume Durand (Durandus). Some of the upper-case characters have full roman shapes and several of the lower case characters are noticeably rounded. Example of Schoeffer's early Schwabacher, created in Mainz in 1465. His son, Peter the Younger, moved to Mainz and carried on the trade. Among digital revivals, see Psalterium (2012, Alter Littera), Schoeffer GP Roman (2015, Philippe Gauthier), and Germanica (2010, Seamas O'Brogain). Fust&Schoeffer-Durandus-GoticoAntiqua118G (2016-2019, Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas, ANRT, France) is a recent revival of Durandus. Faudot and Ribas write Durandus's 118G Gotico-Antiqua was first used in Mainz by Peter Schoeffer and Johann Fust for Guillaume Durand's Rationale Divinorum Officorum in 1459. The book displays two sizes, the smaller 92G for the main text and the bigger and more contrasted 118G used only for the colophon and later for the famous 48-line Bible in 1462. It was used until the end of the 15th century.	EXTERNAL LINKS Peter Schoeffer [Designer info] Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS History of type ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Bastarda / Bâtarde / Schwabacher ⦿