Author's note

Radium FG is a new digitisation of the Art Nouveau hot-metal font Radium published in 1905 by the German typefoundry Ludwig & Mayer.

It became popular in the 1970s when Hubertus Carl Hace Frey reworked the bold weight of Radius under the new name Charleston. It was used chiefly as a display typeface on musical album covers.
Radium FG has, like the original Radium, both a regular and a bold weight. I added latin character sets for most Western and Eastern European languages. It is available as a free font under the SIL Open Font License with the reserved name Radium. For details see https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Radium FG — Font presentation

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Andreas Höfeld Fontgrube AH 2022, 2023
Font family
Radium FG
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Fontgrube Radium mager FG
Full font name
Radium FG
Name table version
Version 2.70
Postscript font name
RadiumFG
Trademark notice
aimG
Manufacturer name
Fontgrube AH
Designer
Andreas Höfeld
Description
Radium FG is a digitisation of the Art Nouveau hot-metal font Radium published in 1905 by the German typefoundry Ludwig & Mayer.

It became popular in the 1970s when Hubertus Carl Hace Frey reworked the bold weight of Radius under the new name Charleston. It was used chiefly as a display typeface on book and musical album covers.

Radium FG has, like the original Radium, both a regular and a bold weight. I added latin characters for most Western and Eastern European languages.

There is also a bold extended version under the name of Lutherkirche FG.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2023-05-25
Revision1
Glyph count330
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classNo classification
WeightSemi-light
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI
Complete pack contains 2 font weights listed below:
RadiumFG-r.TTF
RadiumFG-b.TTF