font_foundry: Wiescher Design

Petite Fleur

Petite Fleur font

Petite Fleur is a combination of engraved, flowery embellishments and the Capitals of my redesigned Royal Romain (Romain du Roi), the exclusive font of King Louis XIV. It is best used as initials only,...

Penstroxx

Penstroxx font

Penstroxx is a collection of 5 fonts that are based on the powerful, expressive Traits de plume (penstrokes) designed in Paris around 1930 by Alfred Latour. I designed a lot of extra penstrokes to...

Copperplate Classic Light Floral

Copperplate Classic Light Floral font

Copperplate Classic Light Floral is the latest addition to my Copperplate Classic Group of fonts. The floral decorations go perfectly well together with the classic forms of the Copperplate. Your decorative 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...

Copperplate Gothic Hand

Copperplate Gothic Hand font

The classic font as designed by F. W. Goudy for ATF in 1901, now in a hand-drawn version for a little bit of variation. Everybody else just offers another version of the same old...

Unita

Unita font

Unita is my version of a classic Grotesk or Sans typeface. I took the best forms of some classic typefaces and combined those forms into my new font, hence the name Unita. I designed...

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