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very traditional formsstrongly slanted italicconsistant proportionsextraordinary ligaturesswashesalternate lettersalternate figureslower case l with a hooked “foot”Believe it or not, there are hardly any sans serif fonts in which the lower case…
Faber Serif is the Roman typeface which was born out of the sans serif design Faber Sans. The proportions are nearly identical to those of Faber Sans.In comparison, Faber Serif has heavy — although...
Peter Behrens’ renowned art nouveau type from 1902 – with ornaments. Newly revised and neatly digitalized by Ingo ZimmermannIn 1902, Peter Behrens (1869–1940), architect, designer and typographer, created a new ”German“ type which became...
handwrittendecorativevariable fontA few fonts already exist which have been drawn in accordance with the exact same principles. But these are just drawn – only drawn. The ANATOLE FRANCE retains the hand script character in...
A modern black-letter, so to speak. Composed of a few basic elements with a wide-quill ductus.Faber Fraktur was based on the idea that it must be possible to create a modern black-letter type. The...
A ”modern“ Gothic – designed according to principles of modern form in three variationsFaber Gotik is a reminiscence of Gutenberg’s first script from around 1450. The heavily broken forms allow further development in the...
Inspired by a find a coarse but decorative font was created. “Fundstueck” ist the German term for it.Fonts can be so simple. That is what I was thinking as my attention was turned to...
A narrow, modern Slab Serif.JOSEFOV is directly derived from the sans serif text font ”Hedwig“. Therefore, of course, it pairs best with “Hedwig”. The basic thought was to create a font with heavy rounded...
A type of “handwriting” discovered by chance, extremely abstractOn April 8, 1948 a certain Walter Plaga wrote a crude poem about a hero on a commemorative plaque. The very poor reproduction of the handwritten...
A heavy blackletter; Rudolf Koch’s first type from 1909.On an old page full of type specimen from the 1930s, the type is described as ”Schwabacher (used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn [German Imperial Railway]).“ As...