Can be used to set short text passages and pairs easily with many different decorative initials of the period. A very useful typeface. Don't leave home without it.
According to Bringhurst, Schelter & Giesecke was formed in 1819 by Johann Gottfied Schelter and Christian Friedrich Giesecke. This old German printing house was sucked up by state-owned Typoart in 1946, after Marshall Zhukov and the Red Army had established Soviet dominion over East Germany.
Font Family: Rundgotisch
Tags: 1800s, art nouveau, blackletter, calligraphic, german, ligatures, revival