BG 092-1 Corvinus-Kursiv mager
This treasure chest of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany.
Produced between 1958 and 1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents a West German agency’s effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for type researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete character sets — a resource not often included in foundry specimens. Thanks to a generous donation from Michael Wörgotter, a set of these cards is now in Letterform Archive’s collection, and his high-res scans are available in this Flickr album.
BG 092-1 Corvinus-Kursiv mager
This treasure chest of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany.
Produced between 1958 and 1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents a West German agency’s effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for type researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete character sets — a resource not often included in foundry specimens. Thanks to a generous donation from Michael Wörgotter, a set of these cards is now in Letterform Archive’s collection, and his high-res scans are available in this Flickr album.