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Hargitai's Antique Fonts [Henrik Hargitai]

Henrik Hargitai (Budapest, Hungary) digitized a number of alphabets and is making them freely available to the world. He is a scientist (astronomer) at Eötvös Loránd University's Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (Planetary Science Research Group) and Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies. His fonts:

• Landerer Pesti Hirlap 1843 PIC2: created from a copy of an 1843 issue of Pesti Hirlap, a daily newspaper printed by Landerer and Heckenast's Printing House in Pest.
• Magyar Piktogram: Various pictograms related to Hungarian art, geography, culture, folk motifs. Including maps of Hungary, ornaments (Aldus letters etc.), peasant portraits, coat of arms, and cartouches.
• Pointer Ornaments: arrows and fists.
• Primus Antique HU (three styles): Primus was the only font for newspaper Linotype machine typesetting between 1950 and 1990 in Hungary. The letters of this font are digitized from a copy of the Fövárosi Mozimüsor (Capital Movie Guide) from the 1960s.
• Widmanstadius Grecz 1610 (2003, four styles): A renaissance antiqua that is based on a Hungarian language Bible printed in the Printing House of George Widmanstadius in the town of Graz in 1610.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Hargitai's Antique Fonts
Klingspor Museum page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Hungary ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Fists, pointing hands ⦿ Typefaces with arrows ⦿