Glyptotek
A revival drawn from the original lettering of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, preserving its peculiar mix of serif uppercase and sans-serif lowercase as a distinct subfamily.
About
Based on lettering found on Vilhelm Dahlerup's 1880s museum building in central Copenhagen, the family offers four cuts: a pure sans (A), a matching serif (B), and two mixed-case variants (C and D) that replicate the original alphabet's unusual pairing of serif caps with sans lowercase. All four subfamilies are available at Regular weight only, and the full family is provided free of charge to designers working directly with the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek on signage, publications or campaigns. Its specificity of origin gives it a credibility that generic historicist typefaces lack.
Classification
Derived from archival lettering on a Danish Neoclassical museum building, the family is unusual in combining serif uppercase with sans-serif lowercase as its primary source material, making it a display revival rather than a conventional text family.