Category: Uncial
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Victor Hammer and punchcutting
Above, smoke proofs from Victor Hammer’s punchcutting practice, reproduced from Victor Hammer: Artist and Printer (Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1981), p. 119. Was ever a type designer so devoted to uncials as Victor Hammer? Most of his typefaces were in that genre. As a printer, Hammer composed mostly with uncials, too. Uncials also appeared in his…
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Victor Hammer and Gebr. Klingspor
Above, I have reproduced a seven-line specimen of Gebr. Klingspor’s Hammerschrift from Rodenberg 1926. Victor Hammer, who designed the typeface, is most well-known among type designers and typographers for his uncial typefaces today. However, he worked with many letter styles in his lifetime, including monumental Roman capitals and Greek. Hammer probably devoted so much of…
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ATypI 2010, Dublin (Part Three)
This is part three of a four-part recap of the 2010 ATypI conference in Dublin. Follow these links for part one, and part two. Writing my third instalment feels different from the first two; it has been almost a month since the event took place, and I have had a long vacation in the interlude.…
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ATypI Dublin 2010 (Part One)
Almost a week has past since this year’s ATypI Dublin 2010 conference ended. The Association Typographique Internationale, founded in 1957, travels annually to meet in a different city. Right off the bat, I’ll state that – out of the six that I have attended – the 2010 event in Dublin was the best. Over the…
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More uncial typefaces!
In November, I published a list of uncial typefaces here, most of which were available at Linotype.com. In the months that followed, many more uncials were added to Linotype’s webshop; most of these designs came from ITC or Monotype. Below are samples and descriptions of these uncials… Abbot Uncial is an exciting, hearty, and almost…
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Gaelic and/or Uncial Fonts
Month after month, the number one search term that brings visitors to this site is “gaelic font.” Readers may end up on TypeOff. because of Pater Noster, a type design shown further down in this article. I don’t know what people are looking for when they type “gaelic font” into Google. Are they looking for…
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Pater Noster in Use
When I was a student at the HfG in Offenbach, I began working on an uncial typeface that I named Pater Noster. After developing the initial alphanumeric characters, I put it aside for other, better things. A few months ago, I received a delightful e-mail from an eccumenical publishing house, which inquired where the font…
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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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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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