![]() Berthold’s digitization was reworked as Akzidenz-Grotesk Next (2006). Linotype’s digital version was renamed to Basic Commercial for trademark reasons. Distributed in the US and UK as Standard and commonly used in the 1950s–60s.ĪG Old Face (1984) is a redrawing made for phototypesetting that returns to the original forms prior to the 1950s homogenization.Ĭopied by Scangraphic as Ad Grotesk and by Bitstream as Gothic 725. Lange regarded Royal-Groteskas the key source and credited it to Ferdinand Theinhardt, but that is refuted, see Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler’s article in Schriftgestalten (2008), Indra Kupferschmid’s blog post, and, most detailed, Dan Reynolds’s article and lecture (2019). Many loosely related styles from various sources were incorporated into the family, see also Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed. Try a search!įirst issued by Berthold in 1898 as Accidenz-Grotesk. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.Haas Inserat-Grotesk / Neue Aurora VIII (43).
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