font_designer: Gert Wiescher

Scribe

Scribe font

Scribe is an elaborate typeface somewhere in between Bodoni and an English script. It has interwoven capitals and joining lowercase letters. I have tried to make something new that has this old, settled touch....

Verena

Verena font

Verena was written with a common felt marker pen, scanned and worked over, to keep just the right amount of roughness. The result is a very readable and usable handwritten font.

Metra Serif

Metra Serif font

Doria

Doria font

Doria was developed from my handwritten script Xan that has a definite Japanese touch. By making Doria really slick it became a font that is perfect to be used on labels and for many...

Swanson

Swanson font

“Swanson” is the son of the swan. This doesn’t make a lot of sense to non-typedesigners so I need to explain. The late, great italian typedesigner Aldo Novarese designed around 1950 a typeface for...

Alpha Echo

Alpha Echo font

AlphaEcho is another of my experimental typefaces. Very streched and pointed with wide and narrow capitals only. For additional mixability I designed a set of swashes. Everything mixes with everything. Give it a try,...

Bodoni Classic Swirls

Bodoni Classic Swirls font

Bodoni Classic Swirls breaks all the rules. The idea of Bodoni typefaces is no embellishments and here I go again and do another decorated set of Bodonis. But I find this is another very...

Fleurons Four

Fleurons Four font

Fleurons are embellishments and here is my fourth round. I found some nice old ones and made some new. These go very well with my scripts Nadine and Ellida!!! Yours once more in a...

Fleurons Three

Fleurons Three font

Fleurons are embellishments and here is my third and so far nicest round. I found some old ones in London and made them more modern ones. These go very well with my scripts Nadine...

FranklinGothicHandDemi

FranklinGothicHandDemi font

FranklinGothicHandDemi is part of a series of hand-drawn fonts from way back in time – before computers changed the way we worked. When I was in advertising – before computers – a very time...