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 ...
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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fleurons V
Fleurons are embellishments and here is my fifth set. I again found some nice old ones and made them completely new. These very elaborate ones go extremely well together with my scripts Nadine and ...