Dan Reynolds is a Krefeld-based design teacher and historian of typography & typefounding

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Making Neuland

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Notes on the origin of Akzidenz-Grotesk

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Fette Fraktur questions

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Depesi Types

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Sandcasting brass types for bookbinders

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Berthold steel types from Dornemann & Co.

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Berthold’s patented type designs, 1900–1907 and 1921–1931

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Hildegard Henning’s Belladonna typeface (1912)

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How old is the specimen? And the typeface?

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Otto Kaestner’s brass type foundry: A lettering zine

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Germany’s brass type foundries: Project start

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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

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

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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

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