Guest Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Hello, I'm looking for fonts from german newspaper from 1938. I'm working on a project named "Culture aspects of communication design". I want to make a newspaper with present polish news and put it into german layout from '38. After all I'll make a research to know what feelings are caused by this culture experiment. I have already posted it in the german version of this siie and one of the users (Wrzlprmft) suggested that one of them is "Mainzer Fraktur" and he is right (IMO) but some glyphs are different. He also suggested Unifraktur (this one have even polish diacritics) and it'a great too! I have also identify "minion" and "akzidenz grotesk" (photo "2"), but I am still looking for texture font with alternate glyph for letter "A" like in the headline from the photo "1". The rest of the fonts are not really important for me (they are stylized as the handrawn so I can simulate them by myself). I just want to be sure that I will use proper fonts in my work :) It's important to take care of the details. As one of my lecturer says "Details make the project!" :) Thank you all for your help! Best regards, Mateusz Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 The masthead font should be Schmale Deutsche Schrift by Rudolf Koch. But I don’t know any digital versions of it. Link to comment
Þorsten Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I don’t know any digital versions of it. What about Gerhard Helzel’s Schmale halbfette Koch-Fraktur (schmale deutsche Schrift) (see page 6 of this PDF, second from the bottom or here)? Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 On 13 March 2015 at 4:30 PM, Þorsten said: What about Gerhard Helzel’s Schmale halbfette Koch-Fraktur (schmale deutsche Schrift) (see page 6 of this PDF, second from the bottom or here)? Yes, that’s it. I even checked there but not under the alternative name. Link to comment
Þorsten Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Well, it is a terrible website. 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Shouldn’t this thread belong to Font-ID (http://typography.guru/font-id/)? Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I don’t mind in such a case, where it’s not just a question of identifying one specific font, but more a discussion of fonts from a certain time and fonts for this specific project. That should fit well in the forum and in the typefaces category. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 But wouldn’t it be nice for the Font-ID to host higher level discussions than just the “I need this font ASAP to copy that logo, for free” type, once in a while? Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Sure, but regular forum members can easily get bored by a constant flood of font ID requests, so it can be useful to keep that in a separated area which one can choose to follow. Having interesting discussions there is of course not forbidden. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 So I need to print it early enough, put paper in sunny place and... wait. There are speedier and more effective ways to weather your paper. Tea, for instance, can give you beautiful results. Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Moved the blackletter legibility discussion to here: Link to comment
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