This entry is for the extended styles of light (1918) and medium (1914) weight from a typeface series that originated at the Leipzig punchcutting company Wagner & Schmidt. [Kupferschmid & Müller] For the bold extended style (Edel-Grotesk fett), see Annonce / Aurora-Grotesk V.

Available from various foundries under different names. Sold as Edel-Grotesk mager/halbfett (Ludwig Wagner, Johannes Wagner), Lessing-Grotesk mager/halbfett (Norddeutsche), and Aurora-Grotesk breitmager VI/breithalbfett VII (Weber). Also known as Akzidenz-Grotesk breit mager/halbfett (Haas), Uranus/Merkur (Schriftguss), Handels-Grotesk mager/kräftig (Kloberg, later Berthold), Elite-Grotesk breit mager/breithalbfett (Poppelbaum), Klassische Grotesk breit/breit halbfett (Trennert), Favorit-Grotesk breitmager/breithalbfett (Weisert), Viktoria-Grotesk fein/halbfett (John), Doria-Grotesk breitmager/breithalbfett (Karl Brendler), Grotesca moderna fina/seminegra (Fundición Tipográfica Nacional), Narciso chiara larga/neretta larga (Nebiolo), Baccarat cienki/polgruby (Warszawska), Ronsard Light Extended/Extended (Warnery), Scania grotesk bred mager/bred halvfet (Berling). [Seemann, Reichardt]

Phototype adaptations are shown in PLINC’s One Line (1971, Edel Grotesque Light Ext./Bold Ext.), Berthold’s E1 (1974, Aurora-Grotesk breitmager/breithalbfett; in the E3 from 1982 with Johannes Wagner credit) and a c. 1970s Typeshop catalog (Aurora breitmager/breithalbfett).

No known digitization except for the grunged Modernista FA, which is based on Baccarat.

Series: regular-wide uprights | bold extended | light/medium extended | compressed | bold condensed | extrabold condensed | italics | open.