Peter A. Demeter was a German designer at the
Weber Typefoundry
C.E. Weber was a German type foundry established in 1827 in Stuttgart. Noted designers working for the foundry included Georg Trump, and Ernst Schneidler. The foundry closed in 1970; some designs passed to the Johannes Wagner Type Foundry, others ...
.
Fonts Designed
* Demeter (1922,
Schriftguss Type Foundry, later
Typoart
VEB Typoart was the only type foundry of East Germany. It was a state-owned enterprise ("Volkseigener Betrieb") located in Dresden. The foundry's most influential art directors were Herbert Thannhäuser (until 1963) and Albert Kapr (until 1987). ...
) This is one of a few German faces
BB&S in Chicago received in exchange for rights to the Cooper types.
* Demeter Schraffiert (1922,
Schriftguss Type Foundry
* Dresden, decorative face, for Schriftgus A.G. Dresden, cut by
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was an American typeface company founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design an ...
in 1925, 12-30pt
* Fournier (1922, probably
Schriftguss Type Foundry, later
Typoart
VEB Typoart was the only type foundry of East Germany. It was a state-owned enterprise ("Volkseigener Betrieb") located in Dresden. The foundry's most influential art directors were Herbert Thannhäuser (until 1963) and Albert Kapr (until 1987). ...
)
* Holländisch (1922 - 1926,
Weber Typefoundry
C.E. Weber was a German type foundry established in 1827 in Stuttgart. Noted designers working for the foundry included Georg Trump, and Ernst Schneidler. The foundry closed in 1970; some designs passed to the Johannes Wagner Type Foundry, others ...
), shaded roman capitals in regular, bold, and extended.
* Pearl Fournier (1922, probably
Schriftguss Type Foundry). In Germany this is known as Geperlte Fournier
[Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, ''The Encyclopedia of Type Faces.'' Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, , p. 174.] and called Dresden when it was later published by
BB&S in Chicago.
References
1870s births
1947 deaths
German graphic designers
German typographers and type designers
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