Gothenburg (font)

Font sample: Gothenburg
(above: set A; below: set B)

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 .

Quote

“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«. "

- Hans Peter Willberg

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 .

Designer: Friedrich Heinrichsen; Type foundry: D. Stempel AG
Font name	First casting	smallest font size	largest font size
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

David Stempel (Ed.): Gotenburg . D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main 1936, OCLC 66578039 .

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 )

[1] -frakturschriften.de: DS-Gotenburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2014 ; accessed on February 27, 2014 .

[2] 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 .

[3] Hans Peter Willberg: The Fraktur and Nationalism. In: The Gazette. Issue May 2001. gazette.de ( Memento from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )