Zierde Grotesk was designed by Lewis McGuffie and published by Lewis McGuffie Type. Zierde Grotesk contains 13 styles and family package options.  

Zierde is a take on early advertising, small-copy grotesks of the late 19th/early 20th century, and is largely inspired by Miller & Richard's own range of Grotesques. More importantly, Zierde is accompanied by a large set of ornaments (+200) which hark back to the look-and-feel of the early-modernist arts and crafts movement. The ornaments in, and presentation of, Zierde owe much credit to J.G Schelter & Giesecke's 1913 type specimen book 'Die Zierde'. The strong functional uppercase sans-serifs alongside luscious, beautiful patterns in 'Die Zierde' make for beautiful combinations. This early-modernist use of grotesk alongside ornament looks bizarre in the eyes of us used to seeing sans-serifs in more formal, sterile settings. The face itself retains some historical flourishes such as the eccentric leaning angle of the italics, the long cross-bar on the 'G', the gammy-leg of the 'R', a strange ampersand and some irregular terminals across the weights. Zierde is display face meant for headlines, titles, short-copy, labels and logos. It comes in caps and small caps, Latin and Cyrillic.

Font Family:
· Zierde Grotesk Light
· Zierde Grotesk Light Italic
· Zierde Grotesk Regular
· Zierde Grotesk Regular Italic
· Zierde Grotesk Medium
· Zierde Grotesk Medium Italic
· Zierde Grotesk Demibold
· Zierde Grotesk Demibold Italic
· Zierde Grotesk Semibold
· Zierde Grotesk Semibold Italic
· Zierde Grotesk Bold
· Zierde Grotesk Bold Italic
· Zierde Grotesk Ornaments

Tags: caps, cyrillic, decoration, display, editorial, grotesk, grotesque, headline, modern, modernist, ornament, pattern, sans, sans-serif