font_designer: Gert Wiescher

Bodoni Classic Swashes

Bodoni Classic Swashes font

Bodoni Classic Swashes is my personal addition to Bodoni’s family of typefaces. Bodoni did not design a decorative version. His quest was for purity in book design. Even though in his days it was...

Mondial Plus

Mondial Plus font

MondialPlus is, as the name implies, a font meant for the whole world. MondialPlus is the newer and better version of Mondial. MondialPlus is designed to work in small sizes for bodytext. Only in...

Ela

Ela font

Ela 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 for...

Cimiez

Cimiez font

Classical nineteenth century french engravers typeface, traditional with corners sharpened, a flick of the burin and a touch of Art Deco.

QuickType

QuickType font

QuickType is a typeface I designed for demonstration purposes. I used it to illustrate my first book about type design. It has crooked slab serifs and looks very much like a typewriter font. But...

Scriptissimo Forte

Scriptissimo Forte font

Scriptissimo-Forte is the bold version of Scriptissimo. When using the normal cut of Scriptissimo I sometimes had the feeling that I could well use a bolder cut to make a bigger impression, so I...

Squickt

Squickt font

Squickt was the first script I designed. The name is an atrocity, I don’t remember what was on my mind, when I decided on that name, but after 25 years it is to late...

Woody

Woody font

Frans Masereel wrote or should I rather say cut some “novels in pictures” around 1927. They are written in powerful black and white woodcuts and were apparently printed from the original cuttings, at least...

Ventoux

Ventoux font

The highest and windiest mountain of Provençe is the Mont Ventoux. That is where I saw a pretty windy signpost in a very windy typeface that inspired me to design Ventoux. I recently added...

Edito

Edito font

Edito is a completely new bodycopy font. The special thing about this font is, that all serifs have the same height. So no matter if you take the thinnest cut (A) or the fattest...