BehrensSchrift-Lichtreduced Font

BehrensSchrift family consisting of 4 fonts
BehrensSchrift_Licht.otf
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Peter Behrens renowned art nouveau type from 1902 with ornaments. Newly revised and neatly digitalized

In 1902, Peter Behrens (18691940), architect, designer and typographer, created a new German type which became very successful very quickly for the Rudhardsche Gieerei (foundry which later became Gebr. Klingspor AG) in Offenbach am Main. It served, for example, as the official German type for the world expositions in 1904 and 1910.

Behrens himself writes about the development of this type ...For the actual form of my type, I took the technical principle of the Gothic script, the stroke of the quill feather. The proportions of height and width and the boldness of the strokes of the Gothic letters were also decisive for me in producing a German character. A cohesive character could be hoped for by avoiding all non-necessities and by strictly carrying out the design principle of holding the quill at an angle *
Behrens Typeface is still sought after as is proven, at the very least, by a few poorly digitalized free fonts which can be found on the WWW.
A project about the modern use of historical industrial buildings in Germany motivated me to take a closer look at the work of Peter Behrens. With the type of Peter Behrens, the ideal display type exists; unfortunately, it can only be found in an absolutely unacceptable quality.

Even D. Stempel GmbH, which still today casts the types of the former Gebr. Klingspor AG (formerly Rudhardsche Gieerei) for manual typesetting, shows in a digitalized specimen sheet of typefaces a neat version of the Behrens Typeface, but still not one which meets todays quality standards. Reason enough for ingoFonts to create the perfect Behrens Typeface.
Voil here it is: the new, revised, original Behrens Typeface from 1902, first newly and neatly drawn and digitalized in detail, and then expanded for all European languages with the Latin font system.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright (c) 2008 by Ingo Zimmermann 2008. All rights reserved.
Font family
BehrensSchrift
Font subfamily
Licht reduced
Unique subfamily identification
PeterBehrens1902,IngoZimmermann2008: BehrensSchrift Licht: 2008
Full font name
BehrensSchrift-Lichtreduced
Name table version
Version 1.001
Postscript font name
BehrensSchrift-Lichtreduced
Trademark notice
BehrensSchrift Licht is a trademark of Ingo Zimmermann 2008.
Manufacturer name
Designer
Description
Copyright (c) 2008 by Ingo Zimmermann. All rights reserved.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2009-10-26
Revision1
Glyph count53
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below:
BehrensSchrift_Licht.otf
Behrensschrift.ttf
BehrensSchrift_Schmuck.otf
BehrensSchrift_Normal.otf
Behrensschrift Website TrueTypeFreeware
  • Accents (partial)
  • Euro
Behrensschrift.ttf
BehrensSchrift-Schmuckreduced Website OpenTypePersonal use
BehrensSchrift_Schmuck.otf
BehrensSchrift-Normalreduced Website OpenTypePersonal use
BehrensSchrift_Normal.otf