A.k.a. Stefan-George-Schrift, but usually
abbreviated as St-G-Schrift or
St.-G.-Schrift. A custom typeface made for the use in
books by Stefan George
(1866–1933), after the poet’s handwriting style named
Stilschrift which he started using for his poems in
1897. [Kurz]
Cut in four sizes [Reuß]
and produced by Berthold, who based it on
their Circular-Grotesk [Bertheau 1995], see Royal-Grotesk. First used for the third
edition of Das Jahr der Seele in 1904, the typeface
evolved in several stages until 1909 and
1927. [Kurz]
Some sources credit George himself with the design, or at least
with the art direction. [Landmann]
“Over the course of three decades, [George] gradually developed the
St. G. typeface from a suitable antiqua that he found by
eradicating and recutting most of the letters, and is still working
on its further development today.” [Wolters
1930] (translated) Others credit Melchior
Lechter (who designed many of George’s books) [Benn]
[Kling],
at least with the glyph drawings [Riegger-Baurmann].
Yet others avoid this question by crediting both. [Hiebler]
Digitizations include Stefan-George-Schrift
(produced by Roland Reuß, Institut für Textkritik, 2003) and
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A.k.a. Stefan-George-Schrift, but usually abbreviated as St-G-Schrift or St.-G.-Schrift. A custom typeface made for the use in books by Stefan George (1866–1933), after the poet’s handwriting style named Stilschrift which he started using for his poems in 1897. [Kurz] Cut in four sizes [Reuß] and produced by Berthold, who based it on their Circular-Grotesk [Bertheau 1995], see Royal-Grotesk. First used for the third edition of Das Jahr der Seele in 1904, the typeface evolved in several stages until 1909 and 1927. [Kurz]
Some sources credit George himself with the design, or at least with the art direction. [Landmann] “Over the course of three decades, [George] gradually developed the St. G. typeface from a suitable antiqua that he found by eradicating and recutting most of the letters, and is still working on its further development today.” [Wolters 1930] (translated) Others credit Melchior Lechter (who designed many of George’s books) [Benn] [Kling], at least with the glyph drawings [Riegger-Baurmann]. Yet others avoid this question by crediting both. [Hiebler]
Digitizations include Stefan-George-Schrift (produced by Roland Reuß, Institut für Textkritik, 2003) and P22 ST G Schrift (Colin Kahn, IHOF, 2005, used for sample). See also EB Hymne.
