font_designer: Gert Wiescher

Eveningnews

Eveningnews font

Since many years I live in Munich and read the daily newspaper Abendzeitung. One morning they had redesigned the paper, using Eric Gill’s Joanna for the body copy and a tweaked version of Franklin...

Copperplate Classic Medium

Copperplate Classic Medium font

Copperplate was the classic nineteenth century engravers typeface, consisting of capitals and small caps only. Among others (for example Deberny & Peignot) F. W. Goudy’s cut for ATF around 1901 is probably the most...

Copperplate Classic Light

Copperplate Classic Light font

Copperplate was the classic nineteenth century engraver’s typeface, consisting of capitals and small caps only. Among others (for example Deberny & Peignot) F. W. Goudy’s cut for ATF around 1901 is probably the most...

Scirocco

Scirocco font

Scirocco is a hot and humid wind that blows from the Sahara over to France and Italy. It crosses the mediterranean sea and carries lots of fine desert dust with it. Once it hits...

Alpha Delta

Alpha Delta font

The standard paperclip is the basic idea behind this Alpha Delta. By working on it, I changed it so that it doesn’t look too much like a paperclip any more. Things happen, Gert Wiescher

LaBodoni

LaBodoni font

LaBodoni is my newly designed Bodoni. After having redesigned and saved Bodoni’s Originals I thought it was about time I adapted the face to modern times. Here is what I did! The font is...

Konstantin

Konstantin font

My son Konstantin wants to become a cook. So I thought it would be a nice idea if I designed a script for his fabulous future menus as a gift for him. I think...

Ela Swashes

Ela Swashes font

Ela Swashes are not meant to and cannot be used as a standalone typeface. Swashes are a set of many different embellished letters to be used together with Ela Demiserif fonts of corresponding weights.

Ela Demiserif

Ela Demiserif font

Ela Demiserif is the typeface I originally designed for the business of my second wife and mother of my two sons; her name is, of course, Michaela. Ela – the typeface – is suitable...

Ela Sans

Ela Sans font

Ela Sans is the sister of the typeface I originally designed for the business of my second wife and mother of my two sons, her name is – of course – Michaela. Ela –...