A sans serif series designed in-house at Schelter
& Giesecke, started in 1913 with two wide styles,
breit and breit halbfett, followed in 1915 by the
regular. [Reichardt 2011] By the early 1930s, the
family was extended to 15 [ad]
or 16 [S&G
ad] styles, incl. the all-caps lichtfett
(bold inline, 1926) and
schraffiert (hatched, 1927). Larger sizes of the
fett caps and the lichtfett also made in
wood.
All styles except for the schmalfett
(bold condensed, 1930) have a monocular ‘a’. Unlike other sources,
Wetzig shows the breit halbfett (wide semibold, 1913) with
a two-storey ‘a’, but that appears to be a misplaced glyph.
[Wetzig 1926–40] All styles except for the
first three had a tailed ‘l’, at least initially. The ‘A’ in breit
initially had a roof that protrudes on the left. [VdS]
Typoart later carried a Cyrillic version of the schmalfett,
and fourMore…
A sans serif series designed in-house at Schelter & Giesecke, started in 1913 with two wide styles, breit and breit halbfett, followed in 1915 by the regular. [Reichardt 2011] By the early 1930s, the family was extended to 15 [ad] or 16 [S&G ad] styles, incl. the all-caps lichtfett (bold inline, 1926) and schraffiert (hatched, 1927). Larger sizes of the fett caps and the lichtfett also made in wood.
All styles except for the schmalfett (bold condensed, 1930) have a monocular ‘a’. Unlike other sources, Wetzig shows the breit halbfett (wide semibold, 1913) with a two-storey ‘a’, but that appears to be a misplaced glyph. [Wetzig 1926–40] All styles except for the first three had a tailed ‘l’, at least initially. The ‘A’ in breit initially had a roof that protrudes on the left. [VdS]
Typoart later carried a Cyrillic version of the schmalfett, and four styles in an all-caps version for small sizes (2/3–6 pt) as Koralle-Grotesk-Versalien.
Inspired Koralle NF (Nick’s Fonts, 2012, with inauthentic lowercase) and TT Corals (TypeType, 2016). Ralph M. Unger’s Koralle RMU (2018) revives four styles; Koralle, zart, breitfett, and lichtfett.
