Your browser (Safari 5.1) is out-of-date!
It's recommended to update your browser to view this website correctly.
Update my browser now

Dan Reynolds
Researching the history of typography and typefounding

Latest Articles

Visit blog

Bauer’s view of Berthold up until about 1927

Posted on 2 June 2024 in: , ,

Berlin foundries, part 3

Posted on 13 February 2024 in: , ,

Unger versus Decker

Posted on 10 January 2024 in: , , , ,
Provenance/Rights: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Andres Kilger (CC BY-NC-SA)

Thurneysser and the later privatization of Berlin’s first state-owned typefoundry

Posted on 4 December 2023 in: ,

The Haas Type Foundry up until about 1927

Posted on 30 October 2023 in: ,

Hand drawings for Berthold’s phototypesetting library

Posted on 23 October 2023 in: , ,

Augsburg typefoundries

Posted on 6 September 2023 in: ,

J. D. Trennert & Sohn

Posted on 15 August 2023 in: , ,
1925 reproduction of an 1820 portrait of J. D. Trennert, from Friedrich Bauer’s Ursprung und Geschichte der Schriftgießerei J. D. Trennert & Sohn in Altona 1634–1925.

Making Neuland

Posted on 12 May 2023 in:

Notes on the origin of Akzidenz-Grotesk

Posted on 28 April 2023 in: , , ,

Fette Fraktur questions

Posted on 6 March 2023 in: , ,

Depesi Types

Posted on 13 December 2022 in: ,

Sandcasting brass types for bookbinders

Posted on 6 December 2022 in: , ,

Berthold steel types from Dornemann & Co.

Posted on 23 November 2022 in: , , , ,

Berthold’s patented type designs, 1900–1907 and 1921–1931

Posted on 26 August 2022 in: , ,
…

Blackletter Resources

Take a look

Webfonts

View all webfonts
…