In 2001 Lange helped Berthold complete the AG series with the additions of AG light italic, Super Italic, light condensed, condensed, medium condensed, extrabold italic, light extended italic, extended italic and medium extended italic. Lange was instrumental in developing the Akzidenz-Grotesk program at Berthold in the 1950s and 1960s. Under the direction of Günter Gerhard Lange, Berthold added AG Medium Italic (1963), AG ExtraBold (1966), AG Italic (1967), AG ExtraBold Condensed & Italic (1968), AG Super (1968). In the 1950s Günter Gerhard Lange, then art director at Berthold, began a project to enlarge the typeface family, adding a larger character set, but retaining all of the idiosyncrasies of the 1898 face. free download Aktiv Grotesk fonts, free Aktiv Grotesk fonts, Geo Grotesk, Geo Groteski, GEO-Grotesk, GEO-Groteski, Grotesk, Grotesk, GROTESK A&V, Grotesk. The Theinhardt foundry later merged with Berthold and also supplied the regular, medium and bold weights. Unlike many other grotesque font families, Aktiv Grotesk was specifically designed to stay true to the grotesque tradition. It was the first sans-serif typeface to ever be widely used and it later influenced the design of Helvetica. Grotesque fonts have been hugely popular over the past 50 years, with font users choosing them. Originally named “Accidenz-Grotesk” the design originates from Royal Grotesk light by royal type-cutter Ferdinand Theinhardt. Aktiv Grotesk is therefore an ideal choice for branding exercises which require a diverse use of type, or where quiet authority is needed. Akzidenz Grotesk is a grotesque sans-serif typeface that dates back to 1896. 426,636 downloads (56 yesterday) 1 comment Free for personal use - 8 font files. Aktiv Grotesk was designed as an intentional alternative to the most ubiquitous typeface from the grotesque genre a typeface which Bruno Maag, founder of Dalton Maag, openly despises as the ‘vanilla ice cream’ of a designer’s type library.

Berthold first published Akzidenz-Grotesk in 1898.

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