Category: Typography
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Rudolf Koch’s Deutsche Schrift Family
Antiqua or Fraktur? By 1900, German printers increasingly wanted both – and something new as well. Inspired by British Arts & Crafts efforts, type producers like the Gebr. Klingspor foundry closed-out the art nouveau era by bringing new hybrid typefaces onto the market, like the Eckmann-Schrift and the Behrens-Schrift. Seeking out new artists to design these,…
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Buy this Magazine, #2
Linotype began distributing the second issue of the Linotype Matrix at TYPO Berlin 2006. This issue’s cover story reports on the life and work of W. A. Dwiggins (the article was written by Paul Shaw, and designed by Tiffany Wardle). But you should really buy the magazine to read my photoessay on historic type specimen…
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From Teutonia to Mountain
I’ve wanted to post this online for a while now. In September, I designed a small family of display typefaces for MAGMA Brand Design GmbH & Co. KG to use in Bastard: Choose My Identity. I post irregularly on their typography blog, Slanted, and somehow I became invited to include a typeface in the Bastard…
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Lombardic Lettering at Chartres
A few days ago, while I was still in France, I came back to Chartres Cathedral for the first time in over a decade. This time, I was looking for lettering. While I didn’t see much, there was a series of dazzling little pedestal inscriptions on the North Portal. Like captions in a book, these…
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Die Wallau Schriftprobe
Between 1924 and 1930, Rudolf Koch designed the Wallau type family for the Klinsgpor foundry. Wallau is a rotunda-style blackletter face (rundgotisch) with two sets of capitals: a gothic (deutsche Großbuchstaben) and an uncial version. The gothic is quite “old-German” in its appearance, while the uncial works more like an odd Italian sans serif. The…
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Blumen für Südasien
Die englische Zeitschrift Building Letters, in Zusammenhang mit der Society of Typographic Aficionados’s Font Aid Kampaigne, hat am 6. Januar Designers weltweit angesprochen. Zehn Tage nach der Todesflut in Südasien und Ostafrika haben Schriftgestalter eine Basisaktion zur Unterstützung des Wiederaufbaus der Region begonnen. Schriftgestalter in aller Welt haben die nächsten Wochen benutzt, Schriftornamente zu zeichen. Diese…
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Pater Noster
Pater Noster is an uncial-style typeface that Dan Reynolds first created for one of Prof. Dieter Lincke’s illustration projects at the HfG Offenbach. Instead of looking at insular manuscripts for his inspiration, Dan explored the unknown world of German 20th Century calligraphic uncial interpretations while he was making his initial Pater Noster drawings. Dan hopes…
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Ignaz Lombard Caps
Ignaz Lombard Caps is a set of Lombardic Capitals that were designed by Dan Reynolds to accompany his Ignaz Textura faces. The Ignaz Textura family is loosely based off of texturas that were designed in the Germany city of Mainz during the early 1500s. In books like Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible, probably the first complete tome…
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Ignaz Text[ura]
Die Ignaz Textura Schriftfamilie ist von der amerikanische Designer Dan Reynolds entwickelt. Beim Design der Schriftfamilie wurde er durch die Buchstaben eines Tableaus außerhalb der Kirche St. Ignaz in Mainz inspiriert. Diese Buchstaben, die im Jahr 1519 gemeißelt wurden, stellen eine neue Interpretation der Texturaform dar. Buchstaben in Stein zu meißeln erfordert kleine Änderungen des…
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Janus
During the summer of 1999, Dan Reynolds took an intensive two-week course in type design with Basel designer, Prof. Franz Werner. With his sophomoric attitude, Dan was certain that this period of time would be enough for him to create the first weight of a new type family, which would become the world’s next Gill…
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Used to Love Her
Die Used to Love Her Schrift ist von der amerikanische Designer Dan Reynolds entwickelt. Die Schrift ist keiner kompletter Entwurf, sondern ein Alphabet, dass noch in einer experimentellen/erfinderischen Phase ist. Dan hat die Schrift erst für einen Offenbacher Typographie-Projekt gemacht, in dem Kursteilnehmer nach neuen Alphabetsformen suchten. Die Teilnehmer mußten aber die Arial als Anfangspunkt…
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