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  • Insigne Grenale

    Insigne GrenaleGrenale is a sans serif font family. This typeface has forty-eight styles and was published by Insigne Design. FoundryInsigne Design DesignerJeremy Dooley Release Date2013

  • OC Bartok Font

    OC BartokSince my first contact with blackletters in 1999, I became more and more fascinated by these artistic -OC Bartók is a beautifully crafted wedge serif available in ten styles. The maverick brother of -OC Rey, it adds a brutal confidence to the former’s classical elegance, and carries a sense…

  • URW Ruca Font

    Ruca FontSince my first contact with blackletters in 1999, I became more and more fascinated by these artistic looking typefaces. It all started in the USA at the age of 16, when I took an art class. I decided to trace some blackletter typefaces because they looked very interesting. From…

  • URW Holland Gothic Font

    Holland Gothic FontBlackletter fonts are timelessly beautiful and still very popular. At some point, it seems that every type designer discovers the beauty of these forms and the great pleasure in creating blackletter characters. Like also Dutch designer Coen Hofmann who, after designing Caxtonian Gothic, has designed yet another Blackletter…

  • URW Gillies Gothic Font

    Gillies Gothic FontDesigned by William S. Gillies and released in two weights in 1934/1935 by Bauer. Named Flott in Germany, Bolide in France, and Vigor by Neufville in Spain. Much later, Letraset added Extra Bold (Freda Sack, 1980) and Extra Bold Shaded (Philip Kelly, 1982) styles. FoundryURW Type Foundry DesignersWilliam…

  • URW Kaufmann Font

    Kaufmann FontDesigned by Max R. Kaufmann in 1936, Kaufmann is a script font release by URW. Contains language support for West, East, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian. FoundryURW Type Foundry DesignerMax R. Kaufmann Release Date1936

  • URW Castle Font

    Castle FontOrigin unknown, but it existed as far back as 1968. Given the design and Red Rooster’s involvement it could be by Les Usherwood. There are many digital versions, including Salzburg, which appears to be identical beyond some differing figures. BB&S released a different face by this name in 1888.…

  • URW Kabel Font

    Broadway by URWReleased by Klingspor in 1927–30 in 8 styles (4 weights, 2 of them with italics, 2 condensed weights). [Reichardt] Zeppelin (aka Verzierte Kabel), Prisma, and Optik are related display styles. Comes with round alternates for a number of caps incl. ‘AEFKMNR’. The italic is accompanied by a set of swash initials (Geschriebene Grotesk-Initialen). A revised version…

  • URW Broadway Font

    Broadway by URWDesigned by Morris Fuller Benton in 1928, Broadway is an art deco styled font release by URW. Contains language support for West, East, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian. FoundryURW Type Foundry DesignerMorris Fuller Benton Release Date1928

  • URW Antrax Font

    Atrax by URWDesigned by Heinrich Jost, released by Bauer in 1926. No lowercase. Issued in digital form by The Font Company and URW (1995, used for sample) with faux small caps. Photo-Lettering, Inc.’s Atrax series lumped together three different German typefaces from the 1920s under one name, Atrax, Ege-Schrift, and Basalt. Their digitized Atrax is the style…

  • URW Cassandra Plus Font

    Cassandra by Wiescher-DesignCassandra Plus is a display sans and art deco font family. This typeface has five styles and was published by Wiescher-Design. FoundryWiescher-Design DesignerGert Wiescher Release Date2012

  • URW Art Gothic Font

    Art Gothic by URWDesigned by Gustav F. Schroeder and released by Central in 1885. It appears on the cover of Superior Printer as shown in the book Typology and dated by the book’s authors in the 1870s, but other sources say the magazine was not published until 1887 so this date is likely too…