Black Mamba and Suisse Int’l by Swiss Typefaces combined to design the identity for The Future Is, a FLINTA* pop music festival. After the inaugural event in 2022, the second edition will take place in November 2023, again at E-Werk in Erlangen, Germany.

Current status: “The Dreamy Easter Bunny”. Regular service will be resumed shortly.

This A4 booklet with an illustrated Easter story for children was first published in 1974 by Pestalozzi-Verlag, Erlangen. The image shows the 9th edition from 1983.

The title typeface is Manessa by Georg Wilkens, set in three curved lines, with an alternate a/ä. Wilkens originally created the letterforms while working on a food packaging design. On the initiative of his schoolmate Günter Gerhard Lange, Manessa was made into a typeface and included in the Berthold Fototypes library in 1971. [Klingspor-Museum]

The oblique Tabarnak (Patrick Griffin, 2012) is a digital reinterpretation, or in Canada Type’s own and slightly bigheaded words, “an assessment and correction of an old concept by George [sic] Wilkens. The original idea was for a bold upright alphabet reminiscent of Oz Cooper’s work, but ornamented with some shocard/signage traits. That idea was radically redrawn and reinvented to become a simple 21st century font made to turn heads and induce a friendly rush.”

Michael Müller Verlag uses a slightly customized version of Holger Königsdörfer’s Vela (Lazydogs, 2010) as the primary text face in their redesigned guidebooks.

Sample page from an excerpt of the New York City guide. Vela is paired with Open Sans for headlines.

Sample page from an excerpt of the Lissabon city guide

Poppl Heavy could be described as Berthold’s response to the ever-popular Cooper Black. It was designed by Friedrich Poppl in 1972, but never used widely. In 2007, Patrick Griffin saved it from oblivion and released a digital revival named Gator. The brush script is Martin Wilke’s Palette, another typeface from the Berthold library.

Ads for Sparkasse Erlangen, the local savings bank, on the front and back cover of a public transport time table. Printed by Gutenberg-Druckerei Erlangen in 1952, back when telephone numbers had four digits.

The fat upright cursive is Titanic a.k.a. Titantypo. Read more about it and the various digital versions on the typeface page. The condensed sans is the schmalfett style of Kristall-Grotesk.