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] 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].
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 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] 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].
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 mager (light) weight. The font is available from the Klingspor Type Archive under the Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0 Licence. Participants: Simon Gerstner, Emerson Martus, Quirin Fürbeck, Ngoc Anh Tran, Paula Janser, Chiara Wißler, Ekaterina Sacharova, Edvinas Zukauskas, Yile Cho.