| Date: 1514 Designer:
Leonhard Wagner and Johannes Schönsperger Foundry:
Schönsperger founder and printer Location:
Augsberg, Germany Current equivalent:
Gebetbuch Fraktur (digitised by Dieter Steffmann) See also:
FF Schoensperger Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Postscript
Truetype | | Famous for:
The first fraktur type used for printing. Applications: Religious and Devotional Ubiquity:
Very rarely used
Category:
Blackletter Fraktur
Stress: Angled
Serifs: Calligraphic | | Design history:
Schönsperger was commissioned by the Emperor Maximilian the First to produce ten copies of a prayer book (gebetbuch). Rejecting the existing types as too common or too antiquated for such a project, Schönsperger cut the punches from drawings by Wagner, cast and set the type, printed the book on parchment and subsequently passed the copies out to be illustrated by leading artists of the day, including Albrecht Dürer. The Gebetbuch of Maximilian the First ranks alongside the Gutenberg bible as a masterwork of German book making. | |  |
