Luxus Gothic
The Designers Foundry · Drew Melton · 2015
A single-weight modernisation of Fette Fraktur, drawn by Drew Melton between 2013 and 2015 with slightly tighter proportions and finer detailing than the 19th-century original.
About
Drew Melton drew Luxus Gothic over two years as a contemporary reworking of Johann Christian Bauer's Fette Fraktur of 1850, a typeface that became a standard across German foundries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The design is slightly more condensed than its source material, with refined details intended to suit modern applications in branding and display. Language support extends across a wide range of Latin-script languages including German, French, Spanish and numerous African languages.
Classification
A modern interpretation of Fette Fraktur, the 19th-century German blackletter style. The page describes it as a refined gothic typeface drawn from that tradition, making fraktur the precise subcategory.