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I think it is quite likely that Krebs imported them from Britain or the United States, too. Your email is never published nor shared. As in, sometime between and ish. Post a Comment Click here to cancel reply. Schmale magere Grotesque was a design sold under various names by at least seven other nineteenth-century German foundries.

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Wo bleibt eigentlich Font-Shopping Teil 3? The typeface was different from the other Breite Grotesques sold by e. April under the patent number The second was an italic named Cursiv-Grotesque, which probably came to Theinhardt from the J.

Named Enge fette Grotesque, this was a straight-sided sans serif, with rounded terminals. Just for me to recap the timeline of things that we know may add to this later: It would have been quite easy to expand a series by a shaded variant, but coming up with these letterforms just to use them in one specialized display style seems unlikely. Until someone comes forward with examples or other proof, could we all please stop repeating and regurgitating the Theinhardt story?

That came from the Francke foundry in Danzig. Further things that underpin this statement are: December at First read this post from a few years ago. Your email is never published nor shared. Everyone seems to give a different date for it, or is talking about different editions? My very scientific Photoshop analysis of old specimens: Typostammtisch am Freitag, 5.

Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2

The Accidenz-Grotesk page only mentions H. Where did this hunch come from?

Where are the Theinhardt-Royal samples when it allegedly was around since ? I think it is quite likely that Krebs imported them from Britain or the United States, too. Either they started working on one, and did not finish it before Berthold acquired them, or Berthold saw the Schattierte Grotesk and realized that it might sell well without the drop shadow.

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Thanks for looking into this and the confirmation, Dan! The first was simply called Grotesque. You could just add one more line to your timeline: Further things that underpin this statement are:. Sans-serifs were just a small, rather unimportant position among many wild designs that type schweizr offered around The first bound type specimen catalogue from the Theinhardt foundry dates to the late s or s, after Ferdinand Theinhardt had sold the business.

So there must have been a Royal-Grotesk available at Berthold in late or January — five years before Berthold bought the Theinhardt foundry. Already in that catalogue, a small passage of text mentions that Royal-Grotesk can be combined with Accidenz-Grotesk in text. The matrices may have come from Britain or the United States.

Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2

I did not find any in earlier specimens though. This article here is only about steinschrivt things we found since. The Berthold catalog only includes one weight of Accidenz-Grotesk in 13 sizes. I do not know where it originated. My internet snapshots of said magazine mention from January You may use these HTML tags and attributes: Upgrade, but not all the way So many good webfonts!