Designed by Rudolf Koch and issued by Gebr. Klingspor in 1923.
Punches were manually cut by Koch himself, without any previous
design on paper. Each of the ten sizes (8–48pt) is hence a little
different. Greater differences only occur in letters where the
variation doesn’t matter much, which suggests that some of them are
intentional [Tracy]. In 1928, an inline version was added, see
Neuland licht.
Balto’s copies “were recut by pantagraph from one [28pt] size
[…] and thus are uniform from one size to another. The white inline
[…] is slightly wider than in the German version.” [McGrew 1993] Also cast by Manig (as
Centenario) and by Typefounders of Chicago (as
Norway) [Reichardt 2011].
American Wood Type Co. had a wood type adaptation named
Rugged. In 2010, Bill Jones recut the design for his
Virgin Wood Type.
Among digital revivals, the most complete is Koch Grotesk (Poem, 2023), a faithful
revival of all nine original sizes, plus a tenth style with
Klingspor’s never-released lowercase. Its Tertia (16pt) size is
used for the Neuland sample. See also Koch Lichte Grotesk.
URW
Nueland (like Jungle Fever NF with ahistoric
small More…
Designed by Rudolf Koch and issued by Gebr. Klingspor in 1923. Punches were manually cut by Koch himself, without any previous design on paper. Each of the ten sizes (8–48pt) is hence a little different. Greater differences only occur in letters where the variation doesn’t matter much, which suggests that some of them are intentional [Tracy]. In 1928, an inline version was added, see Neuland licht.
Balto’s copies “were recut by pantagraph from one [28pt] size […] and thus are uniform from one size to another. The white inline […] is slightly wider than in the German version.” [McGrew 1993] Also cast by Manig (as Centenario) and by Typefounders of Chicago (as Norway) [Reichardt 2011].
American Wood Type Co. had a wood type adaptation named Rugged. In 2010, Bill Jones recut the design for his Virgin Wood Type.
Among digital revivals, the most complete is Koch Grotesk (Poem, 2023), a faithful revival of all nine original sizes, plus a tenth style with Klingspor’s never-released lowercase. Its Tertia (16pt) size is used for the Neuland sample. See also Koch Lichte Grotesk.
URW Nueland (like Jungle Fever NF with ahistoric small caps) includes the inline version. Bitstream’s Informal 011 offers two slightly different weights. P22 Koch Nueland has alternate capitals in the lowercase. Linotype’s adds an inane decorated variation, Neuland Star.
