Art Nouveau Blackletter font
Andreas Höfeld
and bought two booklets just for the fonts used in them.
This one is from 1906 and a very delicate form of blackletter
with an artnouveau-ish style. Anyone can put a name to it?
Here is a quick'n dirty scan: www.fontgrube.de/~sample1.png
Andreas
rist...@hotmail.com
Nice font!
It is not really Art Nouveau, more a calligrapher's font, written with
a "Bandschriftfeder". I'm not sure what the English word is for a pen
with a straight and broad edge. In Dutch it's a "beitelpen" and in
French a "plume à bec carré".
The script looks like a cross between the Irish uncial and the old
gothic script.
Cheers
Richard
Dick Margulis
In English it's generally just called a calligraphy pen or a
broad-nibbed pen. There may be a more specific name that calligraphers
use among themselves, but I'm not aware of it.
Andreas Höfeld
> It is not really Art Nouveau, more a calligrapher's font,
> written with a "Bandschriftfeder". ... In Dutch it's a "beitelpen" and in
French a "plume à bec carré".
In German it is "Bandzugfeder". What language is "Bandschriftfeder"?
Never heard of that.
Andreas
rist...@hotmail.com
Ah
caught me again. It was a faulty translation into German. But, if you
never heard of the word, how can you write it ;) ?
Cheers
Richard
Armadillo
> It is not really Art Nouveau, more a calligrapher's font, written with
No, no, no, let's get the terminology straight. Font is vessel which contains a typeface. Font can be a drawer (case) full of lead type, a file in a computer or even an old IBM-typewriter ball but it is not a design.
Typeface is always crafted but it can be of course for example scanned and traced hand drawn letters. Calligrapher does not produce a font on paper. The style is often called 'hand'.
> The script looks like a cross between the Irish uncial and the old
> gothic script.
This typeface looks more like Rotunda, which is a Latin (Italian) version of German styles. It don't look like very old although German styles took influence from other writing styles and there is wide variety of different styles. Also German styles lived on even after Second World war, especially in calligraphy but new printing styles were created too.
German styles are often linked with Nazism because Hitler pronounced styles like textur, fraktur and schwabacher as "True German Styles" and they should be used instead of Latin styles, especially in all official documents. It failed because people in occupied countries could not read them. Story tells that it was later 'discovered' that the styles were of Jewish origin and therefore should no longer used.
As far as I know 'Gothic Script' can mean just about anything but it usually refers to similar styles created for example in Britain or in US. All kinds of Wedding Scripts and alike.
Jukka