Gothenburg (font)
Gotenburg is a broken grotesque font that was designed from 1935 to 1937 by Friedrich Heinrichsen in the entourage of Tannenberg for the type foundry D. Stempel AG . It is simply structured and very narrow. As a commercial typeface , it was primarily used as poster typeface or for writing on signs. Polemically, it was also referred to as the grotesque shaft boot . The Gothenburg is not to be confused with the Gothenburg Fraktur .
The name is likely derived from the old German name of the Swedish city of Gothenburg .
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“Actually, the typical“ German ”fonts in the Nazi sense were not the traditional or the newly created Renaissance Fraktur fonts; rather, they were hard, pseudo-Gothic fonts that had almost nothing to do with Fraktur or Schwabacher formally. They were related to the sensitive textura like the grotesque to the antiqua . The fonts had names like "Tannenberg" , " National ", "Gotenburg" and the like. The typesetters ironically called it »high boots grotesque«. "
Cuts
There are six different styles from the Gothenburg . These are divided into the two sets Gotenburg A and Gotenburg B , each with 3 font weights. In contrast to Gotenburg B, Gothenburg A has decorative capitals .
Font name | First casting | smallest font size | largest font size |
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Gothenburg A half bold | 1935 | 9 pt | 84 pt |
Gothenburg B half bold | 1935 | 6 pt | 84 pt |
Gothenburg A | 1936 | 6 pt | 48 pt |
Gothenburg B | 1936 | 6 pt | 48 pt |
Gothenburg A bold | 1937 | 12 pt | 72 pt |
Gothenburg B bold | 1937 | 12 pt | 72 pt |
literature
Web links
- Font sample of the Gothenburg on moorstation.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ delbanco-frakturschriften.de: DS-Gotenburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2014 ; accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- ↑ DS-Gotenburg - Delbanco Gothic fonts - quality in Gothic fonts. In: delbanco-frakturschriften.de. web.archive.org, 2014, archived from the original on March 5, 2014 ; accessed on April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Hans Peter Willberg: The Fraktur and Nationalism. In: The Gazette. Issue May 2001. gazette.de ( Memento from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )