Schmalfette CP was designed by Jason Walcott, Walter Haettenschweiler and published by CounterPoint Type Studio. Schmalfette CP consists of 1 design. p > SchmalfetteCP is the result of another cooperation in between designers Jason Walcott and Rob King. King suggested that Walcott revive this fantastic and rather forgotten sans serif typeface from the mid 1950s. Initially developed by Walter Haettenschweiler in 1954, Schmalfette Grotesk was used for many years in the German publication 'Twen'. The typeface was infamously hard to acquire at the time and graphic designers in the U.S.A. often turned to cutting letters from the Twen magazines and reusing them in their own styles. Later on, when digital type occurred several typefaces extremely similar were developed that claimed to be digital revivals of Schmalfette Grotesk. However, they are really just loosely based on the initial. The percentages are different and sometimes a lower case was added. The original font was all caps.

At Rob King's suggestion, Jason Walcott has aimed to recreate the most devoted digital revival possible of the original Schmalfette Grotesk with the new version of SchmalfetteCP. In many cases little modifications were made to accommodate today's digital requirements (e.g. web fonts), however anybody who has actually ever browsed for this typeface now has a variation available that a lot of closely resembles Haettenschweiler's original work.

Schmalfette CP is available in OpenType format in both.ttf and.otf files and provides assistance for all Latin based and Eastern European languages.

Font Family: Schmalfette CP

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