Wiesbaden swing

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Wiesbaden swing
font Wiesbaden swing
category script
Font designer Rosemarie Kloos-Rau
Client Linotype
Creation 1992
owner Linotype

The Wiesbaden Swing font family is a cursive typeface designed by the German communication designer Rosemarie Kloos-Rau. Since it was published by Linotype in 1992 , several typefaces and a special character font have been created.

history

Rosemarie Kloos-Rau is a calligrapher and typographer . The graduate designer, who was awarded the Rudo Spemann Prize in 1983, worked as an illustrator until the 1990s , and in 1993 she published the book script fonts together with Michael Rau . In 1992 she published the Wiesbaden Swing font for Linotype, named after the Hessian state capital , in whose district Biebrich Kloos-Rau lives. 1997 By Alexei Tschekulajew a version with Cyrillic added character development, in 1999 a bold font style . In addition, Dingbats is a special character font that belongs to the same font family.

In 2010 the original handwritten form of the script was included in the Berlin Calligraphy Collection in the archive of the Academy of Arts .

style

Wiesbaden Swing is one of DIN 16518 for signature class of script fonts , but was also the handwritten Antiqua assigned. It is a rounded font with ribbon character, the letters of which are not connected. The font is described by its author as "an application font that allows a fresh, unconventional approach to typography".

In Brush'n'Script, the font was introduced under the marker fonts, and incorrectly attributed to the designer Max R. Kaufmann , who designed poster fonts such as Balloon in the 1930s .

use

The font is used for headlines , slogans and word marks as well as decorative font, for example on greeting cards . It is particularly common in the food sector , examples are the Maggi soup tureen , Liekens Weberli , Zentis jam, Alnatura tea and coffee as well as Duplo and Milka . The font is advertised as one of the "famous Linotype fonts of the past decade".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudo Spemann Prize. From: offenbach.de , March 1, 2004, accessed April 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ example. My motley Pianobuch or My motley Songbook by Margret Birkenfeld .
  3. ^ Michael Rau, Rosemarie Kloos-Rau: Script fonts . Bruckmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7654-2572-9 .
  4. ↑ a b Wiesbaden Swing  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt , April 24, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de  
  5. ↑ Wiesbaden Swing Dingbats on linotype.com, accessed on March 7, 2012.
  6. ^ Linotype: Typeface Catalog . 2010, ISBN 3-9810319-7-0 , pp. 499 .
  7. ↑ Rosemarie Kloos-Rau in the Berlin Calligraphy Collection, accessed on March 7, 2012.
  8. ↑ script fonts on linotype.com, accessed on May 13, 2013
  9. ↑ Tonwert-Atlas digital ( Memento from February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.7 MB), page 31.
  10. ↑ Fonts in Focus No. 9 , page 11, accessed from issuu.com on March 7, 2012.
  11. ↑ Kate Clair, Cynthia Busic-Snyder: A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry. John Wiley & Sons, 2012. ISBN 978-1-11-839988-0 . P. 174.
  12. ↑ Rosemarie Kloos-Rau at designers.linotype.com, accessed March 7, 2012.
  13. ^ Geum-hee Hong: Brush'n'Script . Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2010, p. 352 .
  14. ↑ Max R. Kaufmann on linotype.com, accessed on 7 March 2012 found.
  15. ↑ Decorative fonts on linotype.com, accessed on May 13, 2013
  16. ^ Tomato and writing combined ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt , December 9, 2010.
  17. ↑ Packaging / printing . Application examples of Wiesbaden Swing on linotype.com, accessed on March 7, 2012.
  18. ↑ Type design and example at rau-design.de, accessed on May 13, 2013.
  19. ↑ Famous Linotype Fonts from the Past Ten Years , Retrieved March 7, 2012.