Tag: metal

1. Akzidenz Grotesk

   Designer: Gunter Gerhard Lange, Ferdinand Theinhardt ; Foundry: Berthold, Ferdinand Theinhardt Schriftgiesserei

   Akzidenz (sic) Grotesk was released by Berthold in Berlin in 1898, according to their own literature. It was obviously based…

2. Wagner Script

   Foundry: Canada Type

   

   This gem of a script was what metal era typographers called a “continental face”, which essentially meant an old, most…

3. Ratio Modern

   Designer: Patrick Griffin, Kevin Allan King, F. W. Kleukens ; Foundry: Canada Type

   

   Designed in 1923 by Friedrich Kleukens for the Stempel foundry, Ratio was one of the first metal faces to bring…

4. LTC Athena

   LTC Athena brings a somewhat “lost” hot-metal typeface back from obscurity into digital Opentype format. In the Fall of 2012,…

5. Beton Open

   Beton Open was originally designed by Henrich Jost as a metal foundry type face. David Tucker has digitized the type…

6. Forgia

   Forgia is inspired by utilitarian industrial objects like the riveted stanchions in New York subway stations, decorative ironwork in Grand…