Johannes Anton Hieronymus Rhode (1903-1954), known professionally as ''Hiero Rhode'', was a German type designer.
Fonts Designed
* Humboldt Fraktur (1938,
Stempel Type Foundry
D. Stempel AG was a German typographic foundry founded by David Stempel (1869–1927), in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important font designers worked for the Stempel foundry, including Hans Bohn, Warren Chappell, F. H. Ehmcke, Friedric ...
), named after the German researcher
Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, p ...
. Digitized by Helzel, Delbanco (2001, as DS Humboldt Fraktur), Gerhard Helzel, and Dieter Steffmann (2002).
** ''Humboldt Fraktur halbfett'' (1938)
** ''Humboldt Fraktur Bierbuchftaben'' (1938)
* Hiero Rhode Roman (1945,
Johannes Wagner Type Foundry
Johannes Wagner, Inh. was a type foundry created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt in 1956. In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most o ...
), matching italic by
Karl Hans Walter.
** ''Hiero Rhode Roman fett'' (1945)
[Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, ''The Encyclopedia of Type Faces.'' Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, , p. 114.]
* Hiero Rhode Antiqua (1944,
Johannes Wagner Type Foundry
Johannes Wagner, Inh. was a type foundry created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt in 1956. In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most o ...
), digitized by Ari Rafaeli (2006).
** ''Hiero Rhode Antiqua fett'' (1946)
References
1903 births
1954 deaths
German typographers and type designers
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