Issued by the AG für Schriftgießerei und Maschinenbau before
1905. [Reichardt]
Adopted for phototypesetting by Headliners as part of the Morgan
Press Collection as MP 398 [1968
catalog], by Photo-Lettering as Xenotype
3793 [PLINC
1965] AKA Tedesca [PLINC
One Liner 1971], and Lettergraphics as Edesca
(with a romanized ‘w’). [Lettergraphics
1968]
Descant
(Scriptorium, 1993, used for sample) is a mediocre digitization. It
stays close to the metal original, but has a severely limited
character set and poor outlines. Germanica
(Wiegel) (Peter Wiegel, 2014) is another digitization
that adds Cyrillics. See also Pentz,
made by Fort Foundry
together with Commonwealth // McCann for the Motown
Museum More…
Issued by the AG für Schriftgießerei und Maschinenbau before 1905. [Reichardt]
Adopted for phototypesetting by Headliners as part of the Morgan Press Collection as MP 398 [1968 catalog], by Photo-Lettering as Xenotype 3793 [PLINC 1965] AKA Tedesca [PLINC One Liner 1971], and Lettergraphics as Edesca (with a romanized ‘w’). [Lettergraphics 1968]
Descant (Scriptorium, 1993, used for sample) is a mediocre digitization. It stays close to the metal original, but has a severely limited character set and poor outlines. Germanica (Wiegel) (Peter Wiegel, 2014) is another digitization that adds Cyrillics. See also Pentz, made by Fort Foundry together with Commonwealth // McCann for the Motown Museum in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On in 2021.
