font_designer: Coen Hofmann

Seizieme

Seizieme font

In 1905 the Parisian typefounders Peignot & Cie. issued their Série 16. This clear roman with a large x-height and an italics soon enjoyed a great popularity. Coen Hofmann’s drawings made for the Seizième...

Admira

Admira font

Coen Hofmann revives an original design by Germany type foundry Schriftguss from 1940: His digital Admira is expanded with an extensive open type character set and even provides full Cyrillic. The face is set...

Golf

Golf font

Golf was originally designed by Henry Reinhard Möller in 1935 for Schriftguss KG. Coen Hofmann redrew the capitals and then added lower case letter and Cyrillic alphabets by himself. This digital version of the original...

Marli

Marli font

Marli is an adaption of a face designed by F. Schweimanns and issued by the Stempel Foundry from 6 to 48 point, as “Korso”, in 1913. In 1936 the American Intertype issued their version...

Moewe

Moewe font

URW Akropolis

URW Akropolis font

The design of this display face is based on the hot metal typeface Acropolis, issued by the German type foundry Ludwig Wagner in Leipzig in 1940. To further increase its usefulness a Cyrillic was...

Gothic Initials

Gothic Initials font

This very elegant and calligraphic Initial type design by Coen Hofmann is derived from a specimen sheet of the Parisian type foundry of Firmin Didot Frères of 1821. This Initial font only includes upper...

Globus Cursive

Globus Cursive font

Yet another display face by Coen Hofmann, originally issued by Schriftgieserei D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt a. M. as Globus-Kursiv in 1932. This fat italic with script like features, was designed by Friedrich Hermann Wobst...

Silvestrini

Silvestrini font

Sirius

Sirius font