Date: 1900
Designer:
Otto Eckmann
Foundry:
Klingspor
Location:
Offenbach Am Main, Germany
Current equivalent:
Linotype Eckmann
See also:
BT Freeform 701, Rudelsberg digitised by Dieter Steffmann
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Postscript
Truetype
Famous for:
Fusion of blackletter and art nouveau styles.
Applications: Experimental and Expressive
Ubiquity:
Average use
Category:
Modernised Blackletter
Stress: Angled
Serifs: Calligraphic
Design history:
Showing a clear influence from the German variant of Art Nouveau, the decorative Jugendstil style, which Otto Eckmann helped popularize, firstly as a painter and subsequently as a commercial designer. His short career encompassed magazine and book design, teaching, as well as logo design, in which he joined his mentor Peter Behrens in working for AEG. Eckmann was originally available in two weights, from which only the bolder version has been digitised as a Postscript font.
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