According to British book designer and printing historian John Dreyfus in the 1955 Penrose Annual: Folkwang "...is a lovingly made piece of work which could have easily have been little more than an act of awe-struck reverence for the calligraphic techniques rediscovered by Edward Johnston and spread abroad in Germany by Anna Simons. Of special interest is the serif treatment of the lower-case letters: at the feet the terminals are mostly left bare, but the ascenders and the cross-strokes of the f and t are given elaborate curving serifs which in the mass create an effect unusual in a page of letters made as movable types, resembling rather more a piece of intaglio engraving. The ligatures ch and ck are original and successful."
Font Family: P22 Folkwang Pro
Tags: calligraphic, classic, engraving, essen, german, intaglio, italic, johnston, klingspor, metal, mid-century, roman, serif, simmons, werkkunstschule