Kachelofen
Konrad Kachelhofen was a printer in the city of Leipzig beginning around 1483. He printed many works by contemporary authors and also many of the classics. He acquired an unusually large amount of typefaces...
font_designer: Shane Brandes
Therhoernen
Arnold Therhoernen. (Arnoldus ther Hornen, Drucker des Dictys , Arnold ter Hoernen, Arnold ther Hoernen, Arnoldus TherHornen.) Who was this guy? He was a printer active in the city of Cologne, having graduating from...
Rusch
Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler, was in the 19 th century known mysteriously as the “R” printer. He was the first printer North of the Alps to introduce the new Roman style of type known...
Dropsomaniacal
Drop Caps happen. They started off life as decorated initials way back when in the days of illuminated manuscripts. Then printing came and they became the work of the rubricators and then somewhere soon...
Albrecht Pfister
Herr Pfister was a printer in the city of Bamberg Bavaria. He is known to have published nine works. And it has been contentiously argued that he printed the “36 line Bible.” He was...
Konrad Kachelofen
Konrad Kachelofen was a printer in the city of Leipzig beginning around 1483. He printed many works by contemporary authors and also many of the classics. He acquired an unusually large amount of typefaces...
Amerbach 883
Johann Amerbach was a very successful printer in the city of Basil, Switzerland. He maintained an extensive network of scholars and issued over a 100 works during his 35 years in the business. He...
Michael Wenssler
Michael Wenssler or Michael Wennsler, operated a press at Basel between 1472 and 1490. He apparently suffered financially to the point that he fled his creditors and came to France where he managed to...
Andreae
Hieronymus Andreae or latter in life Hieronymus Formenschneider as he proudly took a new surname to proclaim his success in the printing industry as the man who introduced the Fraktur script to the world...
Lion of Antwerp
Gerard Leeu met his untimely end in a work related altercation. He was a notable printer in both the cities of Gouda and Antwerp dying in 1492. This font face is based on the...