A capital alphabet (A–Z plus exclamation mark) and a partial
matching lowercase (“schenk ein buch”), drawn by
Walter Haettenschweiler in 1954 on the request of Armin
Haab and reproduced in the first volume of Lettera
(1954), simply named Grotesk. Later referred to as
Lettera-Grotesk. Based on the lettering for a poster
designed by Pierre
Gauchat in 1953.
A phototype adaptation is shown as Maharaja in Dan
X. Solo’s Condensed Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts
(Dover, 1986).
Digital interpretations include Panelite (Thomas E.
Harvey, 1993, with added numerals and a few punctuation and
currency glyphs) and HFF Sultan of More…
A capital alphabet (A–Z plus exclamation mark) and a partial matching lowercase (“schenk ein buch”), drawn by Walter Haettenschweiler in 1954 on the request of Armin Haab and reproduced in the first volume of Lettera (1954), simply named Grotesk. Later referred to as Lettera-Grotesk. Based on the lettering for a poster designed by Pierre Gauchat in 1953.
A phototype adaptation is shown as Maharaja in Dan X. Solo’s Condensed Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts (Dover, 1986).
Digital interpretations include Panelite (Thomas E. Harvey, 1993, with added numerals and a few punctuation and currency glyphs) and HFF Sultan of Swat (Have Fun with Fonts, 2010, based on Maharaja and named after the sample text used in the Solotype catalog from 1992, with a few added capital glyphs).
