A typeface for cartographic use, with cursive forms. Berthold showed a
left-leaning style as Gemeindeschrift links-Kursiv
commissioned by the Reichsamt
für Landesaufnahme (German Imperial Agency for Surveying)
[c.1930s
specimen]
Their Diatype
version comprised four styles under the name
Kursivschrift: Stehend (upright), Liegend (oblique),
Rückwärts Liegend (left oblique, intended for labeling bodies of
water), Liegend Haar (light oblique) – plus another style named
Gemeindeteil (like Liegend, but slightly lighter and
w/ smaller x-height and shorter extenders), without credits
[Berthold 1974]. Later credited to
Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt (Bavarian State Surveying Office),
1967 [1982
Berthold specimen]. There is also a sixth style, Stehend Haar
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A typeface for cartographic use, with cursive forms. Berthold showed a left-leaning style as Gemeindeschrift links-Kursiv commissioned by the Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme (German Imperial Agency for Surveying) [c.1930s specimen]
Their Diatype version comprised four styles under the name Kursivschrift: Stehend (upright), Liegend (oblique), Rückwärts Liegend (left oblique, intended for labeling bodies of water), Liegend Haar (light oblique) – plus another style named Gemeindeteil (like Liegend, but slightly lighter and w/ smaller x-height and shorter extenders), without credits [Berthold 1974]. Later credited to Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt (Bavarian State Surveying Office), 1967 [1982 Berthold specimen]. There is also a sixth style, Stehend Haar (upright light) [1985 specimen].
Linotype’s digital version has five styles (w/o Gemeindeteil), credited to (or rather described as) “German Cartographic Design”.
