German Art Deco Epigraphical

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I aimed to be, as a matter of fact. Although it can hardly be a simple reproduction such a revival. To move from epigraphical to typographical lettering is a shift of conditions, some things don’t work in one medium which do work in the other one.
When looking closer you’ll spot some changes I made. For instance, I beefed up the round parts of B, R considerably. My type is less slender than the brass letters. One of the most interesting things was the issue of weight distribution in M, N, W. Initially I thought about “correcting” it according to the standard model. But then I realised that this was unsatisfying and got back to the peculiar solutions with the outer stems being stressed symmetrically (a feature which would look weird in most other typefaces.


The sportive joy is not only to complete the capital alphabet (the inscription only giving 13 letters), but also to invent the figures and a lowercase set. The latter I didn’t want to do initially, but then …