font_designer: Gert Wiescher

Eloise

Eloise font

Ever since I first designed Ellida in 2005, that elaborate script in the tradition of the 18th-century English calligrapher George Bickham and the 19th-century American calligrapher Platt Rogers Spencer, I wanted to add a...

FatFritz

FatFritz font

FatFritz is a rounded blackletter typeface for those of you who do not like the martial side of blackletter typefaces. Being a German, I always had this love-hate relation to Fraktur as we call...

LazyBird

LazyBird font

LazyBird is a script with a slick, lazy character.

Lunix

Lunix font

The basic idea behind Lunix was a half-moon-serif. Hence the name that is derived from “Luna” the ancient greek goddess of the moon. The serifs pretty soon developed their own life and started to...

Bodoni Classic Chancery

Bodoni Classic Chancery font

I became interested in designing Bodoni Classic because of a lazy graphic designer at Jacques Damase publishing house. He had to change a single letter on a bookcover about J. B. BODONI. The French...

Artegio

Artegio font

Artegio is an elegant, joining, classical script with impressive horizontal swirls. I designed a complementary set with simpler capitals, lower-case ending letters and medieval ciphers. Your swirly designer Gert Wiescher

Nikita

Nikita font

Nikita is a very lively upright script with lots of 1950s flair.

Guilloche A

Guilloche A font

Guilloches were – in the old days – used to make the falsification of banknotes more difficult. The engraving of these intricate lines was done by a highly specialized mechanical machine, which was operated...

Revolte

Revolte font

Whenever I see clippings on TV of demonstrations, protesting against this or that, with people holding up signs, I am surprised about the signs being professionally printed or plotted in Helvetica or Futura condensed....

MoonLove

MoonLove font

MoonLove is a very lively, jazzy script.