WeissRundgotisch by Rudolf Weiss of Bauersche Giesserei is a free blackletter font with broad, broken strokes and the compact authority of medieval manuscript lettering. Angular joins and pointed cuts give the letters a carved, heraldic silhouette.
Designers working with fantasy, folklore, or historical themes can use it for book covers, game graphics, and event posters. In packaging and merchandise, its repeated diamond-like cuts can become part of an illustrated crest or ornamental border rather than serving as neutral text.
Glyphs in the WeissRundgotisch font — Basic Latin, page 1
Basic font information
Copyright notice
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Font family
WeissRundgotisch
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
WeissRundgotisch
Full font name
WeissRundgotisch
Name table version
2.0
Postscript font name
WeissRundgotisch
Description
Weiss Rundgotisch based on a type originally cut by Rudolf Weiss, a great German Fontdesigner in the Twentieth. Weiss Rundgotisch is a Rotunda (Blackletter), designed for the Bauersche Giesserei (Frankfurt/M.), digitized by Dieter Steffmann, Kreuztal, in 1998
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2004-12-13
Revision2
Glyph count200
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation