Either at www.gutenberg-shop.de/Type.-Buchdr... or any German bookstore could order it and then ship it. It should be on all German bookstore-chain websites now.

I think this is a drawing for Stempel’s phototypesetting version of the font, not one for the original Deberny & Peignot letterpress fonts.

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They also document the names of the employees who made the additions. With time, this will help round out our understanding of how many people worked in type-making at the company, and who they were.

Nevertheless, those are helpful from a historical perspective, too. They tell us when certain alternates were made, or when certain characters were swapped out for new forms entirely.

A good chunk of type-makers’ work at Berthold wasn’t necessarily glamorous; anyone making fonts today can probably understand! Most records in these files are orders for additional matrices to be made, as orders for new coverage came in. Sometimes, that might have only been one new character, too.

The website’s information, and the file names, are all in German. But at least most of the typeface names should be familiar!

These offer our only glimpse into day-to-day type-making practices at one of the world’s then-largest foundry-type manufacturers.

You can browse all 75 files online now. Each image is published with a CC0 license, so you can use it however you like, without restrictions.