Super grotesque
The Super Grotesk font family was designed by the German type designer Arno Drescher and first cast between 1930 and 1938. Along with the Maxima, the font is considered the most frequently used font in the GDR .
Origin and use
Arno Drescher designed the font in the 1930s as a sans serif sans serif in various weights for Schriftguß KG in Dresden . In 1951, Schriftguß KG was merged with Polygraph VEB (formerly Schelter & Giesecke , Leipzig) to form VEB Typoart . The font family's design is influenced by the Futura , probably also because Arno Drescher and Paul Renner were close friends.
In the GDR, the super grotesque was regarded as a “contemporary and unencumbered grotesque” because the font was not used during the Third Reich . Numerous printed matter, publications, signs, advertisements, publishers and daily newspapers in the GDR were set in the Super Grotesk, from 1987 in the photo typesetting version by Karl-Heinz Lange . The Super Grotesk is the most widely used font in the GDR.
In 1999, the Berlin type designer Svend Smital added several weights to the font family and made revisions; these versions are sold by FontFont under the name FF Super Grotesk.
Classification of the script
- According to DIN 16518 , the super sans serif is categorized in Group VI - Sans Serif Linear Antiqua.
- In the classification according to the principle of form, it is classified as a geometric grotesque.