Designed by Rudolf Koch and issued by Gebr. Klingspor in 1923.
No lowercase. Punches were manually cut by Koch himself, without
any previous design on paper. Each of the ten sizes (8–60pt) is
hence a little different. Greater differences only occur in letters
where the variation doesn’t matter much, which suggests that some
of them are intentional. [Tracy] In 1928, an inline version was
added, see Neuland
licht. Balto’s copies “were recut by pantagraph from one
size […] and thus are uniform from one size to another. The white
inline […] is slightly wider than in the German version.”
[McGrew
1993] Also cast by Manig (as Centenario) and by
Typefounders of Chicago (as Norway) [Reichardt More…
Designed by Rudolf Koch and issued by Gebr. Klingspor in 1923. No lowercase. Punches were manually cut by Koch himself, without any previous design on paper. Each of the ten sizes (8–60pt) is hence a little different. Greater differences only occur in letters where the variation doesn’t matter much, which suggests that some of them are intentional. [Tracy] In 1928, an inline version was added, see Neuland licht. Balto’s copies “were recut by pantagraph from one size […] and thus are uniform from one size to another. The white inline […] is slightly wider than in the German version.” [McGrew 1993] Also cast by Manig (as Centenario) and by Typefounders of Chicago (as Norway) [Reichardt 2011].
There are several digital revivals. URW Nueland (like Jungle Fever NF with ahistoric small caps) is the only one to include the inline version. Bitstream’s Informal 011 offers two slightly different weights. P22 Koch Nueland has alternate capitals in the lowercase. Linotype’s adds an inane decorated variation, Neuland Star.
