decorative

Xylo Script

XyloScript is my first script with a woodcut look to it. Still, it is very elegant. Xylo is Greek and means “wood”. This script is another one I designed in the tradition of the 18th-century English ...

decorative

Venice Initials

Venice Initials are my redesign of a 15th century venetian original by an unknown calligrapher. Unfortunately only parts of the letters existed, so I had to design about half of them myself. Of ...

blackletter

FatFritz

FatFritz is a rounded blackletter typeface for those of you who do not like the martial side of blackletter typefaces. Being a German, I always had this love-hate relation to Fraktur as we call it. ...

script

Lunix

The basic idea behind Lunix was a half-moon-serif. Hence the name that is derived from "Luna" the ancient greek goddess of the moon. The serifs pretty soon developed their own life and started to ...

script

Bodoni Classic Chancery

I became interested in designing Bodoni Classic because of a lazy graphic designer at Jacques Damase publishing house. He had to change a single letter on a bookcover about J. B. BODONI. The French ...

engraving

Artegio

Artegio is an elegant, joining, classical script with impressive horizontal swirls. I designed a complementary set with simpler capitals, lower-case ending letters and medieval ciphers. Your swirly ...

script

Bohemio

Bohemio was designed in memory of Gunter Böhmer, an artist famous for his many book covers of the 1950s in Germany. The cover I took as an inspiration for this font is that of a book called Stiller ...

script

Bacterio

Bacterio is a typeface I designed for this hulk of a friend of mine who is a kitchen designer. He is huge but has a very delicate feeling for form. One day he said he was trying out something new and ...

engraving

Bodoni Classic Bold Ornate

Bodoni Classic Bold Ornate is another puzzlestone in my ever growing Bodoni Classic family. This time the letters are ornated within the limits of the letter, this keeps the classic form of the ...

decorative

Rotor

Rotor is a speedy font. In 1929 K. Sommer designed a typeface for Linotype called "Vulcan". Some years later they republished the typeface and called it Dynamo. The early Vulcan design inspired me to ...