A narrow Gotisch by Rudolf Koch, “cut after his drawings” [1937
Klingspor ad] and released posthumously by Klingspor in 1934. In 1937–1938, two heavier weights
were added by Hans Kühne. [Reichardt 2011] The halbfett was
advertised in Gebrauchsgraphik 11/1936. Equipped
with two sets of capitals, “unziale” (i.e. Roman) by Koch himself,
and “deutsche” (i.e. blackletter), added by Kühne. [Gebrauchsgraphik,
1/1936] The former was the basis for Stahl. The sample shows the mager with an
“unzial” ‘O’. All three weights come with alternate forms for ‘a’
and ‘z’. [VdS]
Photo-Lettering had an all-caps version in two
weights. [PLINC 1950]
In 2003/2004, Gerhard Helzel has digitized the mager and the
halbfett, with both More…
A narrow Gotisch by Rudolf Koch, “cut after his drawings” [1937 Klingspor ad] and released posthumously by Klingspor in 1934. In 1937–1938, two heavier weights were added by Hans Kühne. [Reichardt 2011] The halbfett was advertised in Gebrauchsgraphik 11/1936. Equipped with two sets of capitals, “unziale” (i.e. Roman) by Koch himself, and “deutsche” (i.e. blackletter), added by Kühne. [Gebrauchsgraphik, 1/1936] The former was the basis for Stahl. The sample shows the mager with an “unzial” ‘O’. All three weights come with alternate forms for ‘a’ and ‘z’. [VdS]
Photo-Lettering had an all-caps version in two weights. [PLINC 1950]
In 2003/2004, Gerhard Helzel has digitized the mager and the halbfett, with both sets of capitals, from two sizes each.
In a workshop conducted by Jérôme Knebusch in 2022, students of the HfG Offenbach made a digitization of the 48pt size of the mager (light) weight. Participants: Simon Gerstner, Emerson Martus, Quirin Fürbeck, Ngoc Anh Tran, Paula Janser, Chiara Wißler, Ekaterina Sacharova, Edvinas Zukauskas, Yile Cho. The font was made available from the Klingspor Type Archive in 2022. In April 2025, Poem released a revised and extended version with greater language support, still under the Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0 Licence.
