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Last edited November 26, 2018
mystic
illustrative
Take luggage of foreigner no charge

Berthold Wolpe designed Albertus from 1932 to 1940, with Albertus Titling being released first, and the lowercase a few years later. Stanley Morison commissioned the face for Monotype in England and named it after Albert the Great, medieval scientist and philosopher. Wolpe based the type on the lettering he did on bronze tablets. Such inscriptions were made by cutting back the ground around the... Read More

always
japanophilia
Freak out and drink all the liquor

Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth of AlphaOmega Typography, Inc. The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the great nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose work influenced many Impressionist artists. The typeface has a gentle calligraphic flair that creates an interesting page of text as well as elegant headlines.

rocket
microphysics
No news is the mother of invention

Kaufmann font was designed in 1936 for the American Type Founders by Max R. Kaufmann, a letterer, typographer, and one-time art director for McCalls magazine. Kaufmann is a connecting script typeface with a smooth, slightly whimsical look. Its monoweight is unusual in a script type but allows for a nice texture on the page when it is combined with sans serif text type. The bold Kaufmann is fine... Read More

chalet
ultraviolets
Thank you for habitual drinking

F .H. Ernst Schneidler, type designer and teacher, originally designed Schneidler Old Style in 1936 for the Bauer foundry. Stempel Schneidler is based on the typefaces of Venetian printers from the Renaissance period and possesses their grace, beauty, and classical proportions. The Stempel Schneidler, a completely reworked and tuned font family made by D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt, is a fine,... Read More

chalet
zygapophysis
Palace explodes diced chicken

Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. Garamond refined his romans in later versions, adding his own concepts as he developed his skills as a punchcutter. After his death in 1561, the Garamond punches... Read More

chalet
zygapophysis
Do not annoy by playing golf

The German poet, painter, calligrapher and type designer Emil Rudolf Weiss originally created this eponymous typeface for the Bauer Foundry of Frankfurt. Long known and loved by metal type enthusiasts under the name "Weiss® Antiqua," this design was inspired by typefaces from the Italian Renaissance while still distinctly reflecting the artistic and poetic personality of its twentieth-century... Read More

winter
abstractions
Smoking is friend of mental activity

This font is a late work of the famous Berlin font artist Martin Wilke. Presented by Linotype AG in 1988, Wilke is a lively font with eccentric, playful forms. Wilke was influenced in part by the letters of the Irish handwriting in the Book of Kells, written in the late 8th century, while the pronounced contrast in strokes goes back to the styles of the 18th century. the font's uniqueness is... Read More


ITC

ITC

Shinntype
Berthold Wolpe
Monotype 1940

Monotype

Laura Worthington

Elsner+Flake

Monotype

URW Type Foundry

Linotype

URW Type Foundry

Tart Workshop
Cynthia Hollandsworth Batty
Linotype 1986
Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus Leis Allion
Barnbrook Fonts 2005

Wiescher Design
Sale

Latinotype
Max R. Kaufmann
Linotype 1936
F. H. Ernst Schneidler
Linotype
Claude Garamond and D. Stempel AG
Linotype 1499
Emil Rudolf Weiß
Linotype 1928
Martin Wilke
Linotype 1988