Designed in-house at Schelter & Giesecke in schmal and halbfett (a.k.a. schmal halbfett) styles in 1896. A licht (open, 1900) [Wetzig 1926–40] could be combined with the halbfett for two-color printing [1912 specimen]. The halbfett has an uncial-like alternate ‘e’. [1899 ad] The name for poster sizes was Nerita, with slightly condensed proportions. [1912 specimen]

New Deutsch appears to be a phototype version with romanized glyphs for ‘D’, ‘E’, ‘N’. [Solo 1992]

The halbfett was digitized by Gerhard Helzel in 2002, and, less successfully, by Intellecta Design as Münster Gotische in 2009. See also BN Tillman (Brandon Nickerson Studio, 2023).