In the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution there was a desire for a clear classical blackletter font without frills. That is why in 1793 the famous printer and editor Johann Friedrich...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
In 1927 Albert Auspurg cut Trocadero for the Trennert foundry in Hamburg. This new version is not a mere digitalization, but many letterforms were altered and updated, and missing links in the complete alphabet...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A revived and updated version of Georg Trump’s Amati which was first released by C. Weber Foundry, Stuttgart, in 1951. A compressed multilingual serif font for many purposes.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The name of this blackletter font was chosen due to the centennial of the Bauer Foundry, Frankfurt am Mai, in 1937. Ernst Schneidler probably created then the most beautiful of all fraktur fonts. They...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A blackletter font tending towards the gothic which was released by Klingspor, Offenbach am Main, in 1937. Claudius can be used for clerical as well as for secular purposes and shows a strong character...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Luxor Pro is a semi-encircled Egyptienne with exaggerated serifs. It is a font of Victorian style which was widespread in Europe and America at the fin de siècle, especially in advertisements.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Bernhard Cursive ExtraBold is one of Lucian Bernhard’s most expressive fonts which are worth to get preserved for now and times to come. An ideal font face for advertisements, posters, flyers, titles and subtitles.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
In 1905 Berthold released an engraved blackletter font called Prinzess Kupferstichschrift. Based on an old printed remnant, I revived this beautiful open-face fraktur and enriched it with several OpenType features. As usual in my...