Neuland is a German

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are list of type ...

that was designed in 1923 by

Rudolf Koch Rudolf Koch (20 November 1876 – 9 April 1934) was a German type designer, professor, and a master of lettering, calligraphy, typography and illustration. Commonly known for his typefaces created for the Klingspor Type Foundry, his most widel ...

for the

Klingspor Type Foundry The Klingspor Type Foundry was a German moveable type, hot metal type foundry established in 1892 when Carl Klingspor bought out the Rudhard’sche Foundry of Offenbach. His sons, Karl and younger brother Wilhelm, took on the business in 1904, ren ...

. Koch designed it by directly carving the type into metal. The original typeface thus had a great deal of variance between the sizes, something not followed in digital versions where the same font serves for every print size. While originally intended as a form of modern

blackletter Blackletter (sometimes black letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule, or Textura, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. It continued to be commonly used for the Danish, Norweg ...

, Neuland has come instead to be used as a signifier of the “exotic” or “primitive”, such as in the logos for

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cigarettes, promotional materials for

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'' films (which use the inline variant); controversially, this has included an association with African or African-American themes. A common variant of Neuland (perhaps more common than the standard variety) is Neuland Inline.

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licensed the design under the name of 'Othello' (released 1928) with the agreement that it would not be sold in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Phospor, by

Jakob Erbar Jakob Erbar (8 February 1878 – 7 January 1935) was a German professor of graphic design and a type designer. Erbar trained as a typesetter for the Dumont-Schauberg Printing Works before studying under Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons. Erbar ...

, was a contemporary and more regular competitor. Phosphate, an unofficial revival created by Red Rooster Fonts, is bundled with OS X. Nick Curtis designed the JungleFever typeface, which based on the Neuland typeface.

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A collection of digital Neuland varieties
Display typefaces Letterpress typefaces Photocomposition typefaces Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1923 Digital typefaces Typefaces designed by Rudolf Koch {{typ-stub