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Otto Kaestner’s brass type foundry: A lettering zine

Posted on 30 March 2022 in: , ,

Germany’s brass type foundries: Project start

Posted on 25 March 2022 in: ,
Behrens Antiqua Gebr. Klingspor Offenbach Maas & Jungvogel Crefeld Krefeld Schriften für die Vergoldepresse in Glockenmetall gegossen brass types fonts specimen Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam, call number KVB LPF 215

The Maximilian-Gesellschaft’s edition of Sommerhaus, später

Posted on 7 January 2022 in: ,

H. Berthold AG’s matrices, reference castings & casting slips in the Deutsches Technikmuseum’s depot

Posted on 18 December 2021 in: , , ,
Matern-Kontrollkarte für eine Größe von Post-Versal, H. Berthold AG Matrizensammlung, Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin

An independently-invented matrix-engraving machine: The “Ludwig–Hofer pantograph”

Posted on 10 September 2021 in:
Page from: 1875–1925: Meinem Vater Jean Noé Carl Jakob Ludwig, dem Gründer der Firma Ludwig & Mayer Schriftgießerei zu Frankfurt a.M., zum 23. Dezember 1925 in Dankbarkeit gewidmet.

On the trail of Berlin’s typefoundries

Posted on 3 August 2021 in: , , ,

Victor Hammer and punchcutting

Posted on 9 April 2021 in: , ,

Victor Hammer and Gebr. Klingspor

Posted on 9 April 2021 in: , ,

Research results: Sans serif type in nineteenth-century Germany

Posted on 1 April 2021 in: , , , , , , ,

From Vienna to Philadelphia (and further afield, too): Halbfette Cursiv-Grotesque

Posted on 20 March 2021 in: ,

Lapidar, from Genzsch & Heyse (born 1874)

Posted on 13 February 2021 in: , ,

Sanserif type in Germany in the nineteenth century: a preliminary survey

Posted on 29 December 2020 in: , ,

Louis Hoell and the making of the Eckmannschrift

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Three copies of the Poem pamphlet 4: Louis Hoell and the making of the Eckmannschrift

Imperial-era Germany’s definitive heavy sans

Posted on 19 August 2020 in: , ,
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