P22 Folkwang Pro was created by Patrick Griffin, Hermann Schardt and released by IHOF. P22 Folkwang Pro includes 1 design. p > Folkwang is an unusual roman type with a lowercase that resembles an upright italic. Unusual top serifs are contrasted by almost no foot serifs. Initially released by the Klingspor foundry in 1955, this face originated from Hermann Schardt while he was the director of the Folkwang Werkkunstschule in Essen Germany circa 1949.

According to British book designer and printing historian John Dreyfus in the 1955 Penrose Annual: Folkwang "... is an adoringly made piece of work which could have quickly have actually been little bit more than an act of awe-struck reverence for the calligraphic techniques rediscovered by Edward Johnston and spread abroad in Germany by Anna Simons. Of unique interest is the serif treatment of the lower-case letters: at the feet the terminals are mainly left bare, but the ascenders and the cross-strokes of the f and t are provided elaborate curving serifs which in the mass develop an effect unusual in a page of letters made as movable types, resembling rather more a piece of intaglio inscription. The ligatures ch and ck are original and effective."

Font Family: P22 Folkwang Pro

Tags: calligraphic, classic, engraving, essen, german, intaglio, italic, johnston, klingspor, metal, mid-century, roman, serif, simmons, werkkunstschule