| Date: 1734 Designer:
Johann Michael Fleischmann Foundry:
Enschedé / Dutch Type Library Location:
Haarlem, Holland Current equivalent:
FB Farnham
See also:
DTL Fleischmann, Fenway by Matthew Carter
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Postscript
Opentype | | Famous for:
First typeface made with a counterpunch. Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting Ubiquity:
Very rarely used Category:
Transitional Roman Stress: Angled
Serif: Transitional | | Design history:
Fleischmann's roman has an oblique stress and baroque styling in the uppercase serifs and lowercase terminals. Perhaps the first Dutch type produced with a counterpunch, Fleischmann's type was an outstanding technical achievement of the time. The digital version, by Erhard Kaiser, (from the Dutch Type Library) is a faithful interpretation that includes three weights and related italics in both display and text versions. While traditional type classification refers to Fleischmann's roman as transitional, Bringhurst describes this type as truly 'rococo' – between renaissance and transitional styles (or romantic and enlightenment periods). | |  |
