Weimar Theaterplatz by Steffen de Rudder (Ed.)
The Theaterplatz is Weimar’s central square. It unites Weimar Classicism, the Weimar Republic and the Weimar Bauhaus. “This book is a snapshot and motion study, a protocol of urban development and a photographic essay, a collage …” — mottodistribution.com.
Weimar Theaterplatz was published by M Books.
For the two-colored cover design, Tobias Dahl made use of Euclid and its alternate contructivist double-storey ‘a’. The text typeface in the interior looks similar to Plantin Infant, or Galaxie Copernicus with its Schoolbook alternates for ‘a’ and ‘g’ (but not ‘y’) — however, I am not quite sure about that.
Euclid’s angular alternates and unorthodox ligatures have been employed for the text, too. Here they apparently are used to render the comments of various interviewees in different typographic voices.
2 Comments on “Weimar Theaterplatz by Steffen de Rudder (Ed.)”
Hey Florian,
The unidentified text typeface is Caudex by Hjort Nidudsson.
Thanks for the post!
Tobias, thank you very much for chiming in and identifying the typeface. I wouldn’t have guessed.
Good grief, Caudex is not exactly a beauty! Did it work for you? Glyphs like ‘Q’ or the spine of ‘S’ suggest this ‘open’ freebie started out by butchering Palatino.