A.k.a. Pinselschrift (brush script)
Reporter. First cast in 1938 [Reichardt] or 1939 [J.
Wagner index card] by Norddeutsche Schriftgießerei and later by their
successor Johannes
Wagner. The metal original – larger sizes were also available
in wood – came with many extras:
alternates,
swash underlines, ligatures, as well as logotypes for common
German trigraphs like ‘sch’ and even
whole syllables (‘ent’, ‘ung’, ‘heit’, ‘keit’).
Adopted by Letraset for dry transfer lettering in 1986 [Letraset
sheet]. Shown in a 1987/1988 catalog with some alternates (h m n o
t) and ligatures (ch ff ff fl ll qu st th Fl St Th).
Reporter No. 2 is a simplified version with far
fewer gaps inside the main strokes. It lacks all of the mentioned
embellishments. Shown in LinoTypeCollection (1987) and
available in More…
A.k.a. Pinselschrift (brush script) Reporter. First cast in 1938 [Reichardt] or 1939 [J. Wagner index card] by Norddeutsche Schriftgießerei and later by their successor Johannes Wagner. The metal original – larger sizes were also available in wood – came with many extras: alternates, swash underlines, ligatures, as well as logotypes for common German trigraphs like ‘sch’ and even whole syllables (‘ent’, ‘ung’, ‘heit’, ‘keit’).
Adopted by Letraset for dry transfer lettering in 1986 [Letraset sheet]. Shown in a 1987/1988 catalog with some alternates (h m n o t) and ligatures (ch ff ff fl ll qu st th Fl St Th).
Reporter No. 2 is a simplified version with far fewer gaps inside the main strokes. It lacks all of the mentioned embellishments. Shown in LinoTypeCollection (1987) and available in digital form (©1989 Adobe).
Peter Wiegel’s CAT Reporter (2017) is a digitization that stays closer to the original.
