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Re: What are 'true italics'?
The italics of Frutiger Next were neither drawn nor approved by Frutiger, on the contrary. This section in Typefaces: The Complete Works (p259ff) is quite revealing.5 -
Re: German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat
Hi Steve, The “Gloria” logo looks custom to me, I can’t reliably date it. The original hat shop bag (H. Moeller Marburg) is a tad more helpful in this regard: Some of the lines are set in a face know…1 -
Re: German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat
I assume the English spelling was chosen because it appears underneath the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom. Sorry, I don’t. The letterforms for “Wilhelm Rühle Stuttgart” are in style that al…1 -
Re: German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat
Hi Steve, I don’t see how the script could help with the dating. The first image includes a line saying “R. 1857”, but that doesn’t tell us much. The sign on the inside is more revealing: “H[einri]ch…2 -
Re: There's two variants of old cursive/script lowercase d – rules on usage?
In the period in question, children in German-speaking countries typically learned two different scripts at school, “Lateinisch” (roundhand) and “Deutsch” (Kurrent, a cursive form of Fraktur). These …5
