About

Translated from original German description: This font is again a result of my regular visits to the Typografie.info forum

. It was on July 2, 2015, just before midnight, when the owner of a small but fine commercial printing shop in Jena, which still produces properly hand-set letterpress, reported himself with this question: “Hi, I have a box of ornate broken hot metal that I can’t name.” along with a picture of the first 4 capital letters A, BC, and D. So I got in touch, and had the next one Tag a top view photo of all existing letters, which I then began to trace.

The font’s many flourishes almost made me dizzy, I’ve never had so many intricate curves in a font before, but the more I delved into this font, the easier it was to create the missing glyphs, so that ultimately a complete typeface emerged from it.

However, if you would rather have the original, hand-set and hand-printed on fine paper, in the existing glyphs of this font, or another beautiful hot metal typeface, perhaps really classy-looking business cards, or invitation cards for a family celebration, or simply just greetings at the turn of the year , who stand out from the crowd with real craftsmanship can take a look at handpressed.de .