Koch Neuland

Commentary
April 20, 2004

Koch Neuland

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¶ In 1923, Rudolf Koch chiseled an all caps face directly from metal and called it Neuland (Gebr. Klingspor). This experimental face has been copied and revived over and over again. It was even used as the face for Jurassic Park. A non-exhaustive list includes

Neuland and Neuland Star (Linotype). Linotype owns the trademark to Neuland. This face is possibly identical to Adobe's Neuland Std.
Othello MT (Pierpont at Monotype, 1928-1929).
Albertus MT (Berthold Wolpe at Monotype, 1932).
Informal011 Roman and Black(Bitstream).
Newfish (PrimaFonts).
ITC Outback (based on Bob Alonso's interpretation at Photo-Lettering).
FFD Neuland (Doug Olena, Keystrokes, 1995).
Culpepper (George Ryan, Galapagos): a family with lower cases added and glyphs freely interpreted.
Newfoundland (Corel).
N691 Deco (Softmaker).
AINeuland (Lester Dore at Alphabets Inc).
Jurassic (Elfring, 1996).
BD Jurassic Black (Streetwise Software).
Tribeca (David Rakowski), an outline version, as in the Jurassic Park movie font. Others in this category include BD Jurassic Black (Streetwise Software), Jurassic (Computer Support Corporation, 1996), Jurassic (COSMI, 1993), Jurassic (WSI, 1993), JurassicNormal (Elfring, 1993), JurassicPark (Sierra On-Line, Inc), Jurassic (Allen R. Walden), Tambor-Inline (Casteletype), FFD Neuland Inline (Keystrokes).
Tambor (Light, Black, Inline and Adornado) (Jason Castle, Castletype).
Rudolf (Jason Castle, Castletype).
BrideOfTheMonster (Harold Lohner, 1998).
Newland Black (Andrey Mel'man).
P22KochNueland (Richard Kegler, P22, 2000).
Jungle Fever NF (Nick Curtis).
OnKochsRoots (Manfred Klein, 2002): a lower case and hair-serifed extension.
KochNeu-ExtraBlack (Manfred Klein, 2003). Now called NewCountry.

Some versions

¶ Shown are some of the versions of Koch's Neuland. Indeed, there is no true "original", because each of Koch's type sizes comes with its own peculiarities (recall that each was cut directly in metal). The Linotype version, which is supposed to be the digital counterpart of the "original", is a bit too "clean". The Softmaker face, N691 Deco, is probably closer to Koch's original cuts, as most of Softmaker's historical faces aspire to be true revivals. However, only AINeuland and Ffd Neuland have the pointy M's that we find in the "Encyclopedia of Typefaces" of Jasper, Berry and Johnson, so go figure. The P22 face and Klein's face have K's with horizontal right upper arms and U's that hang together similarly, so they are in a category by themselves and one may well have inspired the other.

More

¶ The pics below show the original Koch Neuland from 1923, and a fun calligraphic play by Joan Gooderham in 2000.

Copyright © 2004 Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
luc@cs.mcgill.ca
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/index.html

	Commentary April 20, 2004 Koch Neuland
.....	¶ In 1923, Rudolf Koch chiseled an all caps face directly from metal and called it Neuland (Gebr. Klingspor). This experimental face has been copied and revived over and over again. It was even used as the face for Jurassic Park. A non-exhaustive list includes Neuland and Neuland Star (Linotype). Linotype owns the trademark to Neuland. This face is possibly identical to Adobe's Neuland Std. Othello MT (Pierpont at Monotype, 1928-1929). Albertus MT (Berthold Wolpe at Monotype, 1932). Informal011 Roman and Black(Bitstream). Newfish (PrimaFonts). ITC Outback (based on Bob Alonso's interpretation at Photo-Lettering). FFD Neuland (Doug Olena, Keystrokes, 1995). Culpepper (George Ryan, Galapagos): a family with lower cases added and glyphs freely interpreted. Newfoundland (Corel). N691 Deco (Softmaker). AINeuland (Lester Dore at Alphabets Inc). Jurassic (Elfring, 1996). BD Jurassic Black (Streetwise Software). Tribeca (David Rakowski), an outline version, as in the Jurassic Park movie font. Others in this category include BD Jurassic Black (Streetwise Software), Jurassic (Computer Support Corporation, 1996), Jurassic (COSMI, 1993), Jurassic (WSI, 1993), JurassicNormal (Elfring, 1993), JurassicPark (Sierra On-Line, Inc), Jurassic (Allen R. Walden), Tambor-Inline (Casteletype), FFD Neuland Inline (Keystrokes). Tambor (Light, Black, Inline and Adornado) (Jason Castle, Castletype). Rudolf (Jason Castle, Castletype). BrideOfTheMonster (Harold Lohner, 1998). Newland Black (Andrey Mel'man). P22KochNueland (Richard Kegler, P22, 2000). Jungle Fever NF (Nick Curtis). OnKochsRoots (Manfred Klein, 2002): a lower case and hair-serifed extension. KochNeu-ExtraBlack (Manfred Klein, 2003). Now called NewCountry.
Some versions	¶ Shown are some of the versions of Koch's Neuland. Indeed, there is no true "original", because each of Koch's type sizes comes with its own peculiarities (recall that each was cut directly in metal). The Linotype version, which is supposed to be the digital counterpart of the "original", is a bit too "clean". The Softmaker face, N691 Deco, is probably closer to Koch's original cuts, as most of Softmaker's historical faces aspire to be true revivals. However, only AINeuland and Ffd Neuland have the pointy M's that we find in the "Encyclopedia of Typefaces" of Jasper, Berry and Johnson, so go figure. The P22 face and Klein's face have K's with horizontal right upper arms and U's that hang together similarly, so they are in a category by themselves and one may well have inspired the other.
More	¶ The pics below show the original Koch Neuland from 1923, and a fun calligraphic play by Joan Gooderham in 2000.
	Copyright © 2004 Luc Devroye School of Computer Science McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 luc@cs.mcgill.ca http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/index.html