Designed Hans
Kühne, based on pen-drawn capitals by Rudolf Koch (see
Offenbach). Released by Klingspor in 1939
[Reichardt 2011]. Known as
Steel in the US. The family spans four weights; mager,
fett, kursiv, schmal halbfett. A monocular ‘a’, a binocular ‘g’ and
an ‘e’ with diagonal bar were available as alternates.
Gerhard Helzel has digitized six fonts (2003–2010): normal (i.e.
mager), fett, schmal(halb)fett from a 20p master; mager, kursiv,
fett from a 12p master.
StahlLUX (before 2017) is a private digitization made by
Annette Lux (HIT).
J.F.Y. Daniel Gauthier made an amateur chromium “tribute” version,
freely available as StahlSteel (GautFonts, 2003).
Unlike Devroye claims, the
caps-only freebie digitization ST37K and
ST32K (2010) by Uwe Borchert is not based on
Stahl, More…
Designed Hans Kühne, based on pen-drawn capitals by Rudolf Koch (see Offenbach). Released by Klingspor in 1939 [Reichardt 2011]. Known as Steel in the US. The family spans four weights; mager, fett, kursiv, schmal halbfett. A monocular ‘a’, a binocular ‘g’ and an ‘e’ with diagonal bar were available as alternates.
Gerhard Helzel has digitized six fonts (2003–2010): normal (i.e. mager), fett, schmal(halb)fett from a 20p master; mager, kursiv, fett from a 12p master. StahlLUX (before 2017) is a private digitization made by Annette Lux (HIT). J.F.Y. Daniel Gauthier made an amateur chromium “tribute” version, freely available as StahlSteel (GautFonts, 2003).
Unlike Devroye claims, the caps-only freebie digitization ST37K and ST32K (2010) by Uwe Borchert is not based on Stahl, but on Lydian.
