Developed by Heinz Konig and Andreas Seidel, Alarm is a screen serif font released by Fust & Friends.

In the late 1920s the Trennert foundry in Hamburg-Altona, Germany, commissioned numerous typefaces from freelancer Heinz König. His chunky, striking Alarm typeface and its blackletter-style buddy, Wiking, are among the most exceptional screen faces from that period, and were quickly quite effective throughout Germany. The 1928 Alarm was clearly designed to complete with Berthold's effective Excitement from the previous year, drawn by Louis Oppenheim, however different in every detail.

Alarm has never known a serious digital variation, up until Fust & & Friends chose to take a crack at, after collecting vintage specimens of the face, and doing some test printings with a genuine 72pt-size metal version.

Fellow Berliner Andreas Seidel (of astype) did an exemplary task, homogenizing the character set without abandoning its quirkiness, expanding the character set with the typical contemporary signs along with diacritics for most languages that utilize the Latin alphabet, and including mediaeval and tabular figures. An advertising classic is prepared for a brand-new life.

Font Family: Alarm Regular