Schelter
& Giesecke’s Romanisch AKA Romanische
Antiqua includes Nr. 20 (1889) with Kursiv (1896), halbfett
(1895) with (obliqued) Kursiv (1898), schmal halbfett (1897), breit
mager with Kursiv (1898), a light Nr. 22 (1902), and schmal (1904).
Some styles available with Cyrillics. Adopted for the Typograph.
[Seemann] The halbfett is based on De
Vinne. [Bertheau]
Romanisch Nr. 20 was also named
Anker-Romanisch, probably to distinguish it from
other similarly named faces (S&G’s logo shows an anchor). Comes
with
nested capital ligatures.
Tasso is an outlined version. Together with the
halbfett, it forms the bichromatic set
Tizian. [S&G: Antiqua-Schriften] The
wood type poster equivalents were Noah, Neptun (schmal
halbfett), Norium (outlined), with
Nikodemus being a solid Cyrillic style. [S&G:
Plakatschriften] Noah and
Norium combines was named Nomen.
[specimen]
Alt-Romanisch, Borghese, and
Ratisbona are spin-offs with novelty glyphs for
some letters.
Numerous recuts, incl. one by Riegerl & Weißenborn in Leipzig
(see Romana),
who provided matrices to Böttger, Klinkhardt, Rühl, Theinhardt, and
Amsterdam before 1900, and one by Berthold (Lateinisch,
1899).
[Bertheau] These copies led to
a lawsuit. In 1908, S&G complained about Enschedé’s
copy Romein letter (series 57). [Dutch More…
Schelter & Giesecke’s Romanisch AKA Romanische Antiqua includes Nr. 20 (1889) with Kursiv (1896), halbfett (1895) with (obliqued) Kursiv (1898), schmal halbfett (1897), breit mager with Kursiv (1898), a light Nr. 22 (1902), and schmal (1904). Some styles available with Cyrillics. Adopted for the Typograph. [Seemann] The halbfett is based on De Vinne. [Bertheau]
Romanisch Nr. 20 was also named Anker-Romanisch, probably to distinguish it from other similarly named faces (S&G’s logo shows an anchor). Comes with nested capital ligatures.
Tasso is an outlined version. Together with the halbfett, it forms the bichromatic set Tizian. [S&G: Antiqua-Schriften] The wood type poster equivalents were Noah, Neptun (schmal halbfett), Norium (outlined), with Nikodemus being a solid Cyrillic style. [S&G: Plakatschriften] Noah and Norium combines was named Nomen. [specimen] Alt-Romanisch, Borghese, and Ratisbona are spin-offs with novelty glyphs for some letters.
Numerous recuts, incl. one by Riegerl & Weißenborn in Leipzig (see Romana), who provided matrices to Böttger, Klinkhardt, Rühl, Theinhardt, and Amsterdam before 1900, and one by Berthold (Lateinisch, 1899). [Bertheau] These copies led to a lawsuit. In 1908, S&G complained about Enschedé’s copy Romein letter (series 57). [Dutch typefounders’ specimens] Later shown as Romaansch (Serie 157, roman and italic). [1932 sample] Not to be confused with Amsterdam’s Romaansch, see Romana.
Cast by Nebiolo (and also by FTC? [Reichardt]) as Raffaello (Serie 105, roman, italic, bold, condensed). [specimen] Grimoldi had the design as Padova.
For a digital approximation, see Rando. A digitization of the Italic is included in Gerhard Helzel’s Lateinisch.