A standard design, and the fat equivalent to Normal-Fraktur. Available from most German
foundries in the late 19th and early 20th century, in numerous
hardly distinguishable versions, often simply named Fette
Fraktur. See also Normal-Fraktur.
“The two earliest Fette Fraktur designs were likely created
simultaneously.
One came from a Berlin-based punchcutter whose last name was
Krumwiede. The other
was sold by the Walbaum typefoundry in Weimar, presumably cut
by Theodor Walbaum, Justus Erich Walbaum’s son. Some founders mixed
sizes by Krumwiede and Walbaum together, including
Eduard
Haenel – who first cast in Magdeburg and then, after 1837,
in Berlin.” [Reynolds]
One influential modernized design was cut by Alexander Bauer and
Christian Bauer, two of the sons of Johann More…
A standard design, and the fat equivalent to Normal-Fraktur. Available from most German foundries in the late 19th and early 20th century, in numerous hardly distinguishable versions, often simply named Fette Fraktur. See also Normal-Fraktur.
“The two earliest Fette Fraktur designs were likely created simultaneously. One came from a Berlin-based punchcutter whose last name was Krumwiede. The other was sold by the Walbaum typefoundry in Weimar, presumably cut by Theodor Walbaum, Justus Erich Walbaum’s son. Some founders mixed sizes by Krumwiede and Walbaum together, including Eduard Haenel – who first cast in Magdeburg and then, after 1837, in Berlin.” [Reynolds]
One influential modernized design was cut by Alexander Bauer and Christian Bauer, two of the sons of Johann Christian Bauer in the early 1870s, who “likely sold matrices of the design to dozens of typefoundries, including Julius Klinkhardt in Leipzig, the Reichsdruckerei in Berlin, and C. E. Weber in Stuttgart” [Reynolds].
Offered by Letraset as Fraktur Bold.
Among digital versions, Linotype’s version (shown) has the “latinized” ‘k’, while URW and E+F offer the font with the original Fraktur form. URW’s version features the long ‘s’ (ſ) as default form. Peter Wiegel’s Fette UNZ Fraktur includes two forms of ‘k’ and ‘x’ and many ligatures. Gerhard Helzel’s Weber-Fraktur fett comes in two sizes, c. 10pt and 24pt.
