Dr Carbfred Pro Font

Designer: Alejandro Paul

The Charles Bluemlein Script Collection is an intriguing tip of the heady days of hand lettering and calligraphy in the United States. From the early 1930s through The second world war, there were about 200 professional hand letterers operating in New York City alone. This occupation saw its demise with the arrival of image lettering, and after digital typography, became virtually extinct. The odd way in which the Bluemlein scripts were put together and developed - by gathering various signatures and then building complete alphabets from them - is a remarkable calligraphic experience. Since the set of built designs looked nothing like the original signatures, fictitious names were assigned to the new script typefaces. The typeface designs were then showcased in Higgins Ink catalogs.

Alejandro Paul and Sudtipos bring the Bluemlein scripts back to life in a set of broadened digital versions, showing the demands these days's designer. Extreme care has actually been required to render the original scripts authentically, keeping the fictitious names originally assigned to them by Bluemlein.