font_designer: Gert Wiescher

Eterna

Eterna font

Eterna is a very beautiful font with diverse uses. In small sizes it acts like it was a Sans typeface, the swings and points tend to be overlooked. In bigger sizes it works as...

Joyosa

Joyosa font

Joyosa is an elaborate script written with a broad pen; it gives the impression of a flowing ribbon.

Ulissia

Ulissia font

Ulissia is a hand-drawn slab serif typeface with a strong character. It reminds me of the 50s, 60s and the film noir period or of old Wild West movies.

Papas

Papas font

Papas is the typeface I use for my own correspondence. My two sons always used to tell each other: “You are not allowed to use this font, it is daddys!” And daddy in German...

Paillas

Paillas font

Paillas is a very elegant and unusual Antiqua typeface I have been working on during the last three years. So far I just have the normal and oblique cuts, but eventually I will design...

Tamara

Tamara font

Tamara is a very open kind-of-art-deco script based on some initials for Semplicita made in the 1930s by the Nebiolo foundry. I designed a complete family with three weights. Since I am an ardent...

Antea

Antea font

Antea is named after “Antaeus” the giant of Libya in Greek mythology, son of Poseidon and Gaia (mother earth), whose wife was Tinjis. He was extremely strong if he stayed in contact with the...

Ellida

Ellida font

Ellida is a very elaborate and elegant script in the tradition of the 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham and the 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer. I really enjoyed designing this script and maybe...

Imperium

Imperium font

Imperium is the official font of the Imperium Romanum, the Roman Empire. Only because my youngest son decided to learn Latin do I know the Romans had another font for everyday use – Scriptura...

Wally

Wally font

Wally is an elegant hand-drawn script that has a very even flow and is readable down to very small sizes. Since it has a similar design it can be mixed with Novita and Novido.