font_designer: Berthold Wolpe
Albertus
Berthold Wolpe’s innovative design undertaken for Monotype in 1932 suggests the texture of letters cut in wood. Albertus can be seen as Morison’s improvement of Othello, Monotype’s 1928 copy of Neuland, executed by Pierpont.
Wolpe Pegasus
Wolpe Pegasus™ is full of surprises. Some characters have oversized serifs, others have very different weights, and some even look inconsistent with the other characters in the set. “This is the typeface that taught...
Wolpe Tempest
“It looks like it could have been designed last year,” says Toshi Omagari, the lead designer for The Wolpe Collection, about the original Tempest typeface. For Wolpe Tempest™, Omagari drew three weights and additional...
Wolpe Fanfare
“Fanfare is such a fun typeface,” says Toshi Omagari, who revived the design for The Wolpe Collection. “It was my happiest discovery when I was digging through the Monotype archive. I came across it...
Sachsenwald
Toshi Omagari’s revived Sachsenwald design can be the perfect choice for distinctive headlines and brand identities for music, movies, video games and more. The revised design includes a regular and light weight – maintaining...
Albertus Nova
Albertus® Nova is a faithful digital revival of Berthold Wolpe’s earlier design of Albertus and is one of the five designs in The Wolpe Collection of typefaces. This new design enlarges the typeface set...