Gabriele Bad AH by Fontgrube Media Design is a free eroded display font with the blunt weight of old wood type. Its broad serifs, uneven edges, and shifting stroke widths make the letters look roughly cut rather than digitally distressed. The lowercase forms are especially squat and sturdy.
A craft brewery or smokehouse could use this rough-hewn lettering for packaging and signage, where its stamped, slightly unruly shapes support a rustic setting. For gig posters and merchandise with an Americana or garage-rock angle, it turns a name into a worn, genuinely rough shop mark rather than a clean retro revival.
Gabriele was the name of his granddaughter. In 1957 Max Grundig, German industrialist, bought the two companies Triumph and Adler and merged them into his office machine label 'Triumph Adler'. Thus, 'Gabriele' became the name of a popular series of typewriters in postwar Germany.
We have chosen this name for our series of typewriter fonts in reminiscence of those machines and all the ladies (called Gabriele or not) that used to type on them from the 1950s to the '80s.
Gabriele Bad is the darkest face of the three (as yet). It was named after its rather dark and gruffy appearance, but inside, she's as good as gold and a good worker in your team of fonts.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2013-05-19
Revision1
Glyph count229
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classFreeform serifs
WeightSemi-bold
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals