Dan Reynolds

@typeoff

Typografie- und DTP-Lehrkraft @designkrefeld. Dr. phil. @HBK_BS 2019. @Fontstand News editor. Amateur design historian researching 19th C. German typefoundries.

Krefeld, Germany typeoff.de Joined September 2008

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Dan Reynolds @typeoff Oct 10, 2023

Near Frankfurt? Coming to the Buchmesse? @jeromeknebusch, Edvinas Žukauskas & I will speak at the Klingspor Museum on the evening of October 20th. All about Neuland & its newest revival Koch Grotesk from @poem_editions. It would be great to see you! offenbach.de/microsite/klin…

Dan Reynolds @typeoff May 11, 2023

I won’t see any of you in Paris this time, but at least there is this

Poem @poem_editions May 10, 2023

Find a delicious essay by @typeoff in the @ATypI goodie bag 🥰

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Dan Reynolds @typeoff Apr 28, 2023

125 years ago today – at exactly 12:05 in the afternoon, Berlin time – H. Berthold AG filed prints of 13 sizes of Akzidenz-Grotesk’s regular weight with the Berlin Muster-Register. That means that it is the typeface’s “birthday” right now. typeoff.de/2023/04/notes-…

Dan Reynolds @typeoff Dec 12, 2022

Schneekönigin is a really excellent typeface.

St Bride Foundation @stbridefdn Dec 12, 2022

A snow-capped typeface to match today's weather from the Stempel Foundry's giant 1925 specimen book.

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#typography #TypeSpecimen #libraries

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Dan Reynolds @typeoff Dec 6, 2022

About 100 years ago, there were two methods by which brass-type fonts for bookbinders were industrially manufactured in Germany. I found a detailed description for one method (sandcasting) and translated it for you over on my website.