Anyone in need of a topic for a typeface revival?
Today in the mail: a type card by Eckehart SchumacherGebler featuring a rare Didone (together with a real one, the Pierre Didot by him and Vilbert).
The Roman and Italic was acquired by Offizin Haag-Drugulin of Leipzig in 1868 from the tradition-rich printer Tauchnitz, who winded up their in-house type-foundry by then. They were kept under the name “Französische Schriften” (French Typefaces).
In 1919 the matrices made their way to D. Stempel foundry, who renamed the typeface “Didot”. Just recently SchumacherGebler was able to discover, that the face does not originate from Didot, but from the Parisian punchcutter Nicholas Pierre Gando. Unfortunately it is not available anymore.
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Who is Gando?
Anyone in need of a topic for a typeface revival?
Today in the mail: a type card by Eckehart SchumacherGebler featuring a rare Didone (together with a real one, the Pierre Didot by him and Vilbert).
The Roman and Italic was acquired by Offizin Haag-Drugulin of Leipzig in 1868 from the tradition-rich printer Tauchnitz, who winded up their in-house type-foundry by then. They were kept under the name “Französische Schriften” (French Typefaces).
In 1919 the matrices made their way to D. Stempel foundry, who renamed the typeface “Didot”. Just recently SchumacherGebler was able to discover, that the face does not originate from Didot, but from the Parisian punchcutter Nicholas Pierre Gando. Unfortunately it is not available anymore.