Johann Michael Fleischmann

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Johann Michael Fleischmann

Johann Michael Fleischmann (* 1701 in Wörth in Franconia ; † 1768 in Amsterdam ) was a German typographer and type founder . He developed the original cut of the font Antiqua, which is still used today .

Life

Johann Michael Fleischmann did an apprenticeship as a type founder from 1723 to 1724 . Fleischmann then went on a hike and learned the trade in 1727 in the Luther's foundry in Frankfurt , in 1728 with Isaac van der Putte in Amsterdam, then with RC Alberts and Herman Uytwerf in The Hague . From 1730 he worked for Uytwerf. From 1732 he started his own business as a die cutter and two years later as a type caster. At times he ran his own workshop and later worked a lot for the Enschede house in Haarlem .

Fonts

In 1732, Fleischmann developed his font, known today as the Original Fleischmann Antiqua . It still forms the basis of newly developed fonts today . In 1927 L. Wagner developed a modern set of Fleischmann Antiqua , also as italic and semi-bold . In 1993 it became known as DTL Fleischmann and the variant DTL Fleischmann Italic .

The Farnham font family, developed in 2004 by typographer Christian Schwartz , with 25 individual fonts, is a rational design based on the typographic work of Johann Fleischmann. Since 2004, Farnham has been the most widely used of three corporate typefaces in the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau . The numerous variants of the font are helpful for the good legibility and the aesthetic demands of the iPad edition of the newspaper.

Web links

Commons : Joan Michael Fleischman  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klingspormuseum: Johann Michael Fleischmann , accessed on February 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Paulo Heitlinger, publicando de 1996 a 2007: Fleischmann, Johann Michael. Tipógrafo alemão, activo nos Países-Baixos. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau . In: Fonts in Use . November 19, 2012 ( fontsinuse.com [accessed February 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Wörth in Franconia
DATE OF DEATH 1768
Place of death Amsterdam