A condensed grotesk with a tailed ‘a’, single-storey ‘g’, and an ‘r’ with horizontal terminal. Originally released by Krebs and first shown in 1865 as Moderne Steinschriften. Also shown in Wilhelm Gronau’s 1891 type specimen catalog. [Reynolds]

Aside from Krebs and Gronau, this typeface was sold by at least 25 other German-speaking type foundries. A list compiled by Dan Reynolds includes: Moderne Steinschrift (Krebs, Gronau), Steinschrift(en) (Drugulin, Meyer & Schleicher, Rudhard’sche Gießerei, Brendler, Scholz, Böttger, Brüder Butter, Numrich & Co., Schelter & Giesecke), Stein-Schriften (C. Schreyer & Ignaz Fuchs), Moderne fette Stein-Schriften (Trowitzsch & Sohn), Neuste Grotesque (Herrlinger & Schmidt), Schmale halbfette Grotesque (Berger; subsequently as Halbfette Grotesque by Reinhold and Halbfette Grotesk by Berthold), Grotesque (Theinhardt), Moderne Steinschrift I. Garnitur (Kloberg), Halbfette Grotesque (Rust & Co., Actiengesellschaft für Schriftgießerei und Maschinenbau), Halbfette Grotesk (Reichsdruckerei; Rühl), Schmale halbfette Grotesk (Aßmann), Neue Steinschriften (Weisert), Schmale Grotesque (Reimann), Grotesk (Woellmer), Schmale Grotesque (John), Grotesque (Ludwig & Mayer), Schmale halbfette Grotesque (Tech), Halbfette Grotesk C (Brockhaus). Similar designs were made and sold by Bauer and the Dresler/Flinsch foundry.