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Gradl Zierschriften from HiH Gradl Zierschriften is a HiH font family with 1 style priced from $10.00. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: December 2nd, 2005
Designed by: M.J. Gradl
Designed when: 1900
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Sans Serif
Design owned by: HiH
MyFonts Keywords: 1900s, artnouveau, decorative, elegant, ligatures, modern, plain, retro, sansserif, zeitgeist [suggest]
Gradl Zierschriften
Here is another design by jewelry designer Max Gradl.
Zier is a verb, meaning to decorate, adorn or ornament; zierlich means decorative, elegant, fine, neat. Schrift means type. Zierschrift, therefore, means decorative type. Gradl Zierschriften is a decorative type in the Art Nouveau style, rather than the more ornate Victorian style. Very modern, very young, with an elegant simplicity of form.
Maria Makela, in her book The Munich Secession (Princeton 1990) suggests that the frequent use of simple, flowing, organic forms that was so characteristic of Art Nouveau was a reaction against the growing complexity and rapid urbanization that resulted from 19th century industrialization.
In keeping with that reaction is the hand-drawn quality that intentionally rejects a mechanistic mathematic precision of line rendering. This font preserves that hand-drawn quality. Designed with upper case only, this face was obviously intended for short headlines only and is best set at 18 points or larger. However, I don't think you really get to experience the grace of this design until you get to 36 points or more. In the larger sizes, it is simply stunning.
Please note that while most of the uppercase letterforms are repeated in the lower case for convenience, the ‘F’,‘L’ and ‘T’ are rendered a little narrower than in the uppercase to provide for visual variety.
The font also includes a generous supply of ligatures for just the right fit ... and just for the fun of using them. Three common ways of inserting a ligature, accented letter or other special character are:
1) Key in “ALT”+“0”+[ascii #]; for example ALT+0233 for the e-acute,
2) From within your application program, go to the INSERT menu and look for something like “Insert Symbol,” (this function is NOT available in all application programs) &
3) Cut & Paste from the CHARACTER MAP display that has been supplied by every generation of Windows Operating System that I can recall (All Programs>Accessories>System Tools).
Isn't it amazing what you can do? Don't be afraid to experiment. If you back up your work, you have very little to lose and a lot to gain. Not only do you acquire a new tool, but by the very process you have learned how to continually expand your knowledge and skill base.
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