Johannes Wagner, Inh. was a

type foundry A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Before digital typography, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces for hand typesetting, and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Mono ...

created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, moving to

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in 1956. In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most of those from

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. The company, by then named Letternservice Ingolstadt, closed in 2002, and its printing assets were moved to the printing museum in Leipzig.

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundry: * Antiqua 505 (1940, Arno Drescher), also called ''Manutius''. * Hiero Rhode Antiqua (1944, Hiero Rhode), digitized by Ari Rafaeli (2006). ** ''Hiero Rhode Antiqua fett'' (1946, Hiero Rhode) * Hiero Rhode Roman (1945, Hiero Rhode) ** ''Hiero Rhode Roman Italic'' (1945, Karl Hans Walter) ** ''Hiero Rhode Roman fett'' (1945, Hiero Rhode)Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, ''The Encyclopedia of Type Faces.'' Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, , p. 114.

References

{{Reflist Letterpress font foundries of Germany Manufacturing companies based in Berlin Companies based in Ingolstadt