Designed in-house at Schelter & Giesecke and released in 1896 in
two weights. The lighter style also came in a Cyrillic version.
[Wetzig
1926–40]
Sylphide and
Hispania, another script by Schelter & Giesecke, were
reproduced in Petzendorfer’s Schriftenatlas, but with
accidentally swapped labels [Petzendorfer
1905]. This explains why despite its name, HiH’s Hispania
Script (2008) is not based on Hispania, but
rather revives Sylphide. Sylphe
(RMU, 2019), on the other hand, is based on
Isabel/Hispania, not Sylphide.
In addition to Hispania
Script (used for sample), Sylphide was
digitized as
Dobkin Script (David
Rakowski, 1992; extended by
Dieter Steffmann in 2000),
Esperanza (Scriptorium, 1996), Margaux
(Scholtz
Fonts, 2013, extended as Gladly,
2016), and Denise More…
Designed in-house at Schelter & Giesecke and released in 1896 in two weights. The lighter style also came in a Cyrillic version. [Wetzig 1926–40]
Sylphide and Hispania, another script by Schelter & Giesecke, were reproduced in Petzendorfer’s Schriftenatlas, but with accidentally swapped labels [Petzendorfer 1905]. This explains why despite its name, HiH’s Hispania Script (2008) is not based on Hispania, but rather revives Sylphide. Sylphe (RMU, 2019), on the other hand, is based on Isabel/Hispania, not Sylphide.
In addition to Hispania Script (used for sample), Sylphide was digitized as Dobkin Script (David Rakowski, 1992; extended by Dieter Steffmann in 2000), Esperanza (Scriptorium, 1996), Margaux (Scholtz Fonts, 2013, extended as Gladly, 2016), and Denise (Arys Design, 2014). See also Sylphe (RMU, 2019).
