Probably originated at Wagner & Schmidt who sold matrices to
various foundries. [Reichardt/Hoefer] Released in 1909 by the
Gottfried Böttger foundry in Leipzig. Initially referred to as
Deutsche Kartenschrift [VdS] and later as
Liebing-Type. Comes with two sets of caps,
glatt (plain) and verziert (decorated). A
halbfett (bold) was added in 1914, a licht (open)
in 1916. Also cast by Weber, Trennert, Berthold (as
Liebing-Type), AG für Schriftgießerei (as
Eleonore), L. Wagner
(as Elite-Gotisch), Haas (as
Froben-Gotisch), Tech (as Germanisch),
Poppelbaum (as Liebing-Fraktur, both weights, regular
in 1905?; not to be confused with another design by Liebing),
Schriftguss (as Liebing-Gotisch). [Reichardt 2011] [Wetzig More…
Probably originated at Wagner & Schmidt who sold matrices to various foundries. [Reichardt/Hoefer] Released in 1909 by the Gottfried Böttger foundry in Leipzig. Initially referred to as Deutsche Kartenschrift [VdS] and later as Liebing-Type. Comes with two sets of caps, glatt (plain) and verziert (decorated). A halbfett (bold) was added in 1914, a licht (open) in 1916. Also cast by Weber, Trennert, Berthold (as Liebing-Type), AG für Schriftgießerei (as Eleonore), L. Wagner (as Elite-Gotisch), Haas (as Froben-Gotisch), Tech (as Germanisch), Poppelbaum (as Liebing-Fraktur, both weights, regular in 1905?; not to be confused with another design by Liebing), Schriftguss (as Liebing-Gotisch). [Reichardt 2011] [Wetzig 1926–40] In some versions, ‘F’ has a straight descender, in others it is curved.
Digital revivals by Gerhard Helzel (as Liebing-Type, 2002–2005, with both sets of caps and the licht, without halbfett), by Chiron (as TbC Liebing Type, 2014) [Devroye], and by Peter Wiegel (as CAT Liebing Gotisch, softer, with plain caps only, 2016).
