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Coen Hofmann has rediscovered Blackletter font design and enriches URW’s FontForum with two new and very beautiful fonts: Caxtonian Black and Holland Gothic. Caxtonian Black is a remarkable classical Fraktur inspriced inspired from the...
Blackletter fonts are timelessly beautiful and still very popular. At some point, it seems that every type designer discovers the beauty of these forms and the great pleasure in creating blackletter characters. Like also...
In 1905 the Parisian typefounders Peignot & Cie. issued their Série 16. This clear roman with a large x-height and an italics soon enjoyed a great popularity. Coen Hofmann’s drawings made for the Seizième...
The characteristic ‘French face’ was originally made in 1899 under the supervision of Joseph Pinel. Thus, what was originally French 10 pt. Nº 2, got its present name. The Frenchman Joseph Pinel called himself...
Yet another display face by Coen Hofmann, originally issued by Schriftgieserei D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt a. M. as Globus-Kursiv in 1932. This fat italic with script like features, was designed by Friedrich Hermann Wobst...
This very elegant and calligraphic Initial type design by Coen Hofmann is derived from a specimen sheet of the Parisian type foundry of Firmin Didot Frères of 1821. This Initial font only includes upper...
The design of this display face is based on the hot metal typeface Acropolis, issued by the German type foundry Ludwig Wagner in Leipzig in 1940. To further increase its usefulness a Cyrillic was...