Johannes Wagner Type Foundry

Johannes Wagner, Inh.

Industry	Type foundry
Founded	1921
Founder	Johannes Wagner
Headquarters	Ingolstadt, Germany

Johannes Wagner, Inh. was a type foundry created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt in 1956.[1] In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most of those from Berthold.[2] The company, by then named Letternservice Ingolstadt, closed in 2002, and its printing assets were moved to the printing museum in Leipzig.[3]

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundry:[4]

• Antiqua 505 (1940, Arno Drescher), also called Manutius.
• Hiero Rhode Antiqua (1944, Hiero Rhode), digitized by Ari Rafaeli (2006).[5]
  • Hiero Rhode Antiqua fett (1946, Hiero Rhode)[6]
• Hiero Rhode Roman (1945, Hiero Rhode)[5][7][8]
  • Hiero Rhode Roman Italic (1945, Karl Hans Walter)[5]
  • Hiero Rhode Roman fett (1945, Hiero Rhode)[9]

References

1. "Wagner". MyFonts. 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
2. Duensing, Paul Hayden Metal Type: Whither Ten Years Hense? Fine Print Magazine, January 1985.
3. Spiekermann, Erik (January 1, 2009). "Johannes Wagner | Typophile - comments by Erik Spiekermann". www.typophile.com. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
4. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 2408–249
5. "Johannes Anton Hiero Rhode". luc.devroye.org. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
6. Rhode
7. Berry, William Turner (1962). The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces. Pitman Publishing Corporation.
8. Journal of Scholarly Publishing. University of Toronto Press. October 1979.
9. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 114.