Potsdam (font)
The Potsdam font was developed in 1934 by Robert Golpon for the JD Trennert & Sohn type foundry in Hamburg.
Like the Tannenberg, the Potsdam belongs to the Broken Grotesk family , also known as Fraktur-Grotesk or Schlichte Gothic. Polemically, it is also referred to as "grotesque high boots". The grotesque form of broken fonts emerged in Germany in the 1930s.
Potsdam is a commercial typeface and was used for the labeling of signs, e.g. B. Station signs, posters and information boards are used.
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The type foundry CE Weber took over the Potsdam narrow half-bold font under the name "Staufia".
The four sections of Potsdam were the only realized writings of Robert Golpon.
Today there are various digitizations of the font, but often they do not contain any ligatures or the " long s ".
| Font name | First casting | designer | Type foundry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potsdam |
|
Robert Golpon | JD Trennert & Sohn, Hamburg |
| Potsdam half bold |
|
Robert Golpon | JD Trennert & Sohn, Hamburg |
| Potsdam bold |
|
Robert Golpon | JD Trennert & Sohn, Hamburg |
| Potsdam narrow half-bold |
|
Robert Golpon | JD Trennert & Sohn, Hamburg |
| Potsdam narrow half-fat (Staufia) |
|
Robert Golpon | CE Weber, Stuttgart |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Golpon ( PDF , ≈ 69 kB) - Klingspor-Museum , (last published or uploaded there) on June 12, 2016