A standard design, and the fat equivalent to Normal-Fraktur.
Available from most German foundries in the late 19th and early
20th century, in numerous hardly distinguishable versions, often
simply named Fette Fraktur. See also Normal-Fraktur.
Among the earliest fette Fraktur types were those cut by a
Berlin punchcutter named Krumwiede and announced in 1834. He sold
matrices to several foundries, incl. Eduard
Haenel, Nies,
Trennert,
and maybe also to Walbaum [Reynolds].
One influential modernized cut made in 1850 and originally named
Neue fette Fraktur is attributed to Johann Christian
Bauer, according to records by the Bauer foundry
[Helzel].
Offered by Letraset as More…
A standard design, and the fat equivalent to Normal-Fraktur. Available from most German foundries in the late 19th and early 20th century, in numerous hardly distinguishable versions, often simply named Fette Fraktur. See also Normal-Fraktur.
Among the earliest fette Fraktur types were those cut by a Berlin punchcutter named Krumwiede and announced in 1834. He sold matrices to several foundries, incl. Eduard Haenel, Nies, Trennert, and maybe also to Walbaum [Reynolds].
One influential modernized cut made in 1850 and originally named Neue fette Fraktur is attributed to Johann Christian Bauer, according to records by the Bauer foundry [Helzel].
Offered by Letraset as Fraktur Bold.
Among digital versions, Linotype’s version (shown) has the “latinized” ‘k’, while URW and E+F offer the font with the original Fraktur form. URW’s version features the long ‘s’ (ſ) as default form. Peter Wiegel’s Fette UNZ Fraktur includes two forms of ‘k’ and ‘x’ and many ligatures. Gerhard Helzel’s Weber-Fraktur fett comes in two sizes, c. 10pt and 24pt.
