Ludwig & Mayer

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Schriftgießerei Ludwig & Mayer
TypeDefunct
IndustryType foundry
Defunct1984
HeadquartersGermany
Key people
Karlgeorg Hoefer, Jakob Erbar, Helmut Matheis

Ludwig & Mayer was a German type foundry in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important designers worked for the Ludwig and Mayer type foundry, including Heinrich Jost, Karlgeorg Hoefer, Helmut Matheis, and most notably Jakob Erbar, whose Erbar Book was one of the first geometric sans-serif typefaces, predating both Paul Renner's Futura and Rudolf Koch's Kabel by some five years. Starting in 1925, Ludwig & Mayer types were distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association. When the foundry ceased operations in 1984, rights to the typefaces was transmitted to the Neufville Typefoundry.[1]

Typefaces[2][]

These foundry types were produced by Ludwig & Mayer:

House Faces[]

  • Allemannia Fraktur (1908), later digitized by (2018)
  • Allright (1936)
  • Altenburger Gotisch (1928)
  • Bastard Mediaeval
  • Beatrice (1931)
  • Behrens
  • Chic
  • Cochin (1922)
  • Commerciale
  • Die Mode (1914-1915)
  • Diplomat (1964), later digitized as by (2009)
  • Excelsior (1914), a script face
  • Firmin Didot (1929), a version Didot .[3]
  • Hallo (1956)
  • Kombinette (1932)
  • Kupferplatte (1950)
  • Largo (1939)
  • Luminous
  • Magnet (1951)
  • Manolo, an art nouveau faced revived by Ralph Unger as (2019)
  • Nelson (1902), an art nouveau face.
  • Samson Script
  • Wren

Designer Faces[]

  • Achtung (1932, ), a heavy script face.[4]
  • Aeterna (1927, Heinrich Jost), also known as Jost Mediaval and offered for machine composition by Intertype (Berlin).[5]
  • Allegro (1936, Hans Bohn)[6]
  • Altenburger Gotisch (1928, ), a fraktur face.
  • Antiqua die Schlanke (1938/9, )
  • Augenheil (1908, Richard Ludwig)
  • Big Band (1974, Karlgeorg Hoefer)
  • Brigitte (1935, )
  • Candida (1936, Jakob Erbar), offered for machine composition by Linotype (Frankfurt).[7]
    • Candida Italic (1937, )
  • Charleston (1967, ), an updating of a Victorian display face.[8]
  • Charme (1957/8, ), a calligraphic face.
    • Slogan (1959, ), a bold version of Charme, not to be confused with the Nebiolo type foundry’s face of the same name.[9]
  • Colonia (1938/9, ) an early humanist sans.[10]
  • Compliment (1965, ), an angular vertical script.[11]
  • Contact (1968, ), not to be confused with the American Type Founders face of the same name.[12]
  • Dominante (1959, ), offered for machine composition by Simoncini SA (1962) .[13]
  • Domino (1959, Alfred Riedel), a fat face.[14]
  • Dynamo (1930, )
    • Motor (typeface) (1930, ), an engraved version of Dynamo.[15]
  • Elegance (1968, Karlgeorg Hoefer)
  • Erbar-Grotesk (1922-30, Jakob Erbar), many faces in this series were also offered for machine composition by Linotype.[16]
  • Express (1952, ), a script face.[17]
  • Feder Grotesk + Fett Feder Grotesk + Feder Italic (1910, Jakob Erbar)[18]
  • Germroth-Deutsch (1935, ), a blackletter face.
  • Headline (1964, Karlgeorg Hoefer)
  • Hoelderlin (1937/8, ), blackletter face.
  • Koloss (1923, Jakob Erbar)[19]
  • Kombi (1930, )
  • Krimhilde (1934, )
  • Lyrisch (1907, )
  • Matheis Mobil (1960, ), a formal script.[20]
  • Mona Lisa (1930, )[21]
  • National (Fraktur) (1933/4, )
  • Prägefest (1926, )
  • Primadonna (1956, ), a formal script.
  • Professor-Krause-Fraktur (1930, Wilhelm Krause), a blackletter.
  • Rasse (1924, )[22]
  • Reichert-Gotisch (1930’s, )
  • Rhapsodie (1949-51, ), a modern romanization of a Schwabacher blackletter.[23]
  • Schlanke + Bold + Semibold (1939, ), known outside Germany as Slender.[24]
  • Schräge National (1933/4, )
  • Skizze (1935, ), a script face also known as Sketch.[25]
  • Stereo (1968, Karlgeorg Hoefer)[26]
  • Stop (1939, ), a dry-brush script face.[27]
  • Symphonie (1945, ), a highly flourished script sold outside of Germany as Stradivarius.[28]
  • Welt (1931, ), a slab serif made in at least five weights. Also known as Luxor, Landi (1939-43 Nebiolo Foundry with additional variations by Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese)), Ramses (Fonderie Typographique Française), and Atlas (Amsterdam Type foundry), it was also offered for machine composition by Linotype.[29]
  • Welt-Fraktur (1910, )
  • Werbekraft (1926, )
  • Werk-Fraktur (1918, )
  • Werbeschrift Deutsch (1933, )
  • Wolfram (1930, ), a heavy upright italic.[30]

Licenced Faces[]

The following faces were originally faces cut for line-casting by Simoncini SA.

  • Armstrong (1970, Francesco Simoncini)
  • Aster or Aster Simoncini (1958, Francesco Simoncini), a newspaper font in several weights with matching italics.[31]
  • Life (1965, Francesco Simoncini), a newspaper and book font in several weights with matching italics.[32]
  • Permanent (1962, Karlgeorg Hoefer) a display font made in at least six weights.[33]
  • Simoncini Garamond (1958-61, Francesco Simoncini + ), a recutting of Garamond.[34]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ludwig & Mayer". Typophile. 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
  2. ^ Except where noted, this list is compiled from :"Ludwig & Mayer". Luc Devroye. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  3. ^ :Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, William Turner; Johnson, Alfred Forbes (1986) [1953]. Encyclopedia of type faces. Blandford Press Ltd. p. 29. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
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  18. ^ :Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, William Turner; Johnson, Alfred Forbes (1986) [1953]. Encyclopedia of type faces. Blandford Press Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
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  26. ^ :Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, William Turner; Johnson, Alfred Forbes (1986) [1953]. Encyclopedia of type faces. Blandford Press Ltd. p. 342. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
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  30. ^ :Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, William Turner; Johnson, Alfred Forbes (1986) [1953]. Encyclopedia of type faces. Blandford Press Ltd. p. 242. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
  31. ^ :Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, William Turner; Johnson, Alfred Forbes (1986) [1953]. Encyclopedia of type faces. Blandford Press Ltd. p. 11. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
  32. ^ :Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, William Turner; Johnson, Alfred Forbes (1986) [1953]. Encyclopedia of type faces. Blandford Press Ltd. p. 137. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
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