A sans serif series designed in-house at Schelter & Giesecke,
started in 1913 with two breit (wide) weights. Until 1930,
the family was extended to 15 (14 [Reichardt] plus ganz
breit [specimen])
or 16 [S&G
ad] styles, incl. the all-caps fett
licht (bold inline, 1926) and schraffiert
(hatched, 1927). Larger sizes of the fett caps and the
fett licht also made in wood. All styles except for the
schmalfett (bold condensed, 1930) have a monocular ‘a’.
Unlike other sources, Seemann shows the breit halbfett
(wide semibold, 1913) with a two-storey ‘a’, but that’s either an
alternate or a misplaced glyph.
Typoart later cast a Cyrillic version of the
schmalfett, and 4 styles in
an all-caps version for small sizes (2/3–6 pt) as
Koralle-Grotesk-Versalien.
Inspired Koralle More…
A sans serif series designed in-house at Schelter & Giesecke, started in 1913 with two breit (wide) weights. Until 1930, the family was extended to 15 (14 [Reichardt] plus ganz breit [specimen]) or 16 [S&G ad] styles, incl. the all-caps fett licht (bold inline, 1926) and schraffiert (hatched, 1927). Larger sizes of the fett caps and the fett licht also made in wood. All styles except for the schmalfett (bold condensed, 1930) have a monocular ‘a’. Unlike other sources, Seemann shows the breit halbfett (wide semibold, 1913) with a two-storey ‘a’, but that’s either an alternate or a misplaced glyph.
Typoart later cast a Cyrillic version of the schmalfett, and 4 styles in an all-caps version for small sizes (2/3–6 pt) as Koralle-Grotesk-Versalien.
Inspired Koralle NF (Nick’s Fonts, 2012, with inauthentic lowercase) and TT Corals (TypeType, 2016). Ralph M. Unger’s Koralle RMU (2018) revives 4 styles; Koralle, zart, breitfett, and lichtfett.
