A narrow Gotisch designed by Otto Hupp and released by Klingspor
in 1906. Complemented with decorative
initials, ornaments, borders, religious elements and vignettes.
Each size was designed independently. [Paul Shaw: The
calligraphic Tradition in Blackletter Type] Most notably,
the smaller sizes (6, 8, 9, 10p) have simpler caps without double
strokes. In sizes above 48p, some caps are decorated with fine
double diagonals. [Klingspor-Museum]
Several digital revivals exist. Gerhard Helzel’s (1999, used for
the sample) is based on the 20p size. Also distributed by Delbanco
as DS-Liturgisch. A second
size derived from a 9p size as used in a
hymnbook More…
A narrow Gotisch designed by Otto Hupp and released by Klingspor in 1906. Complemented with decorative initials, ornaments, borders, religious elements and vignettes. Each size was designed independently. [Paul Shaw: The calligraphic Tradition in Blackletter Type] Most notably, the smaller sizes (6, 8, 9, 10p) have simpler caps without double strokes. In sizes above 48p, some caps are decorated with fine double diagonals. [Klingspor-Museum]
Several digital revivals exist. Gerhard Helzel’s (1999, used for the sample) is based on the 20p size. Also distributed by Delbanco as DS-Liturgisch. A second size derived from a 9p size as used in a hymnbook is sold as L. klein 9p or Hupp-Gotisch (Helzel) and Liturgisch Buch (Delbanco). Helzel also offers a set of bichromatic initials. Dieter Steffmann’s version (2002, re-released as DS Liturgisch in 2014) has rough contours. It comes with an incomplete set of Zierbuchstaben. Kristians Šics’s (Lamatas un Slazdi, 2013) offers broad language support.