First cast by Berthold in 1899. The initial style is credited to Peter Schorr. Expanded into 5 styles until 1902. In 1911, a 6th breitfett (extrabold extended) style completed the family. [Reichardt 2011] Came also with a set of decorated initials. A Cyrillic version named Lateinisch Russisch, or Latinskaya, provided the base for Literaturnaya.

In 2010, Gerhard Helzel digitized the Regular (used for the sample) and halbfett (bold) weights, based on a large size. A Lateinisch kursiv (Italic) was added in 2020, based on the italic of Romanisch. Tancred (Scriptorium, 1993) and Latinish (Intellecta, 2008) can’t be recommended.