Famous for:
Stylised 20yh century revival of Fraktur
Applications: Advertising and Display
Ubiquity:
Rarely used
Category:
Blackletter Fraktur
Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Calligraphic
Date: 1910
Designer:
Rudolf Koch
Foundry:
Klingspor
Location:
Offenbach Am Main, Germany
Current equivalent:
Fette Deutsche Schrift (digitised by Dieter Steffmann)
See also:
Neuland, by the same designer, Berthold Trump Deutsch
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Postscript
Truetype
Design history:
A very heavy textura designed by Germany's most eminent calligrapher and type designer of the early 20th century. The rounded edges of the letterforms and the flow of the shapes reinforce the organic nature of the blackletter style, and reflect the German variant of Art Nouveau, called Jugendstil (youth style). Deutschschrift translates as 'German letter' and could be seen as an emblem of rising nationalism within Germany at that time.
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