Fleischerei, Berlin
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Apr 25th, 2026.
Stentor was issued by the East German Typoart in 1964, after designs by Heinz Schumann (1934–2020). It’s the second time the upright brush script comes up on Fonts In Use, and once again it’s for the shop sign of a butcher’s in East Berlin. This time the letterforms stay closer to the metal original, preserving its calligraphic nature. Shown red against yellow, they are accentuated by a white “shadow” effect.
Spotted by Maurits van den Toorn in May 1988, eighteen months before the Berlin Wall came down.
