font_designer: Ralph Unger

Retroactive

Retroactive font

profonts Retroactive Pro is an all-caps texture font with four variations for each letter. This enables the user to create letter graphics that seem to have a unique handmade texture. Ideal for applications which...

Gradl No1

Gradl No1 font

Gradle Nr. 1 is yet another new art nouveau design in the URW++ library. It was reworked, redesigned, completed and digitally remastered by Ralph M. Unger for URW++, based on hand-drawn upper case characters...

RMU Initials

RMU Initials font

Four fonts entirely of decorative initials of which the uppercase basic letters of RMU Initials One are occupied by Walthari initials, the lowercase ones by Eckmann initials, both released first by Rudhard’sche Gießerei, Offenbach,...

Emilia

Emilia font

Emil Rudolf Weiss’s 1920s Antiqua font family redrawn and redesigned for nowadays use.

Rhythmus Pro

Rhythmus Pro font

Schelter & Giesecke’s grotesk font family, widely used for their marketing and in-house prints, now revived and extended with a Cyrillic character set and old-style numerals.

Saskia Pro

Saskia Pro font

A tribute to Jan Tschichold. His hot-metal font Saskia was released in 1931 by Schelter & Giesecke. This elegant italic font was finally redrawn, extended and digitized for present-day use.

Orbis Pro

Orbis Pro font

Walter Brudi’s elegant shadowed display font brought to life again and carefully extended with Baltic, Turkish and Central European character sets.

Neue Echo

Neue Echo font

Inspired by the former Schriftguss, Dresden, font Echo, this fresh-drawn und designed Neue Echo can be filled in many different ways, and makes it a great display font for labels, posters, headlines etc.

Mitropaschrift

Mitropaschrift font

The letter faces of the former German catering organization Mitropa.

Circensis

Circensis font

Picking up a concept of Fritz Richter, Circensis is the realization of an adorned diplay font which had not been hitherto available, neither as a hot-metal font nor digitally. It is a great and...