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Wimaria Gotisch

FDI Type Foundry · Max Bittrof, Ralf Herrmann · 2025

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Wimaria Gotisch specimen from FDI Type Foundry

A digitisation of a 1930s Bauer type foundry blackletter, extended with a full Western and Central European character set and optional OpenType swash capitals.

About

Originally published in the 1930s by the Bauer type foundry, the letterpress source material has been digitised by Max Bittrof and Ralf Herrmann with coverage expanded to include Win 1252/Mac Roman and Central European characters. The single style contains 462 glyphs in total, with decorative swash capitals accessible via the OpenType swash feature. Suited to logos and headlines where period blackletter texture is required.

Classification

A digitisation of a 1930s Bauer type foundry letterpress blackletter font, classified explicitly as blackletter by the foundry and suited to display use.

Weights

Regular

Languages

Latin Extended

Tags

blackletterdisplayletterpressdigitisationhistoricalswashlogosheadlines