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LF Spiegel
LF Spiegel is a LucasFonts font family with 12 styles priced from $67.00. Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family.
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: February 22nd, 2001 (Updated: Mar 10th, 08)
Designed by: Lucas de Groot
Designed when: 1997
Contained in Categories: Legible, Sans Serif
Design owned by: LucasFonts
MyFonts Keywords: 1990s, 2000s, booktext, businesstext, commercial, corporate, design, formal, grotesk, headline, humanist, legible, magazine, modern, modest, news, newstext, plain, poster, sansserif, signage, sophisticated [suggest]
LF Spiegel
When approached to give informal advice on the redesign of the leading German weekly Der Spiegel, Luc(as) de Groot offered to design a completely new headline font. A newly developed typeface, he argued, would lend an unmistakable personality to the magazine. He worked late nights for a week and sent in sketches; the designers immediately ordered six weights. Says Luc(as): "I get a weekly free copy of the magazine as long as the typefaces are being used - it’s been ten years now."
The Spiegel typeface embodies an interesting paradox: the shapes and proportions of an American-style gothic - the ultimate industrial typeface - are combined with the subtle diagonal stress and almost imperceptible traces of handwriting that are typical of most of Luc(as)'s text faces. Although conceived as a headline face, Spiegel is perfectly suited for medium-sized body text. Designers who can do without small caps and oldstyle figures will find it a pleasant, unobtrusive text face for brochures and illustrated books. The Condensed version is an elegant, spacing-saving headline font.
The current OpenType version includes character sets for dozens of languages including special sets for Central European, Baltic, Icelandic and Turkish.
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