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Gutknecht

Gutknecht

by Proportional Lime
Individual Styles from $9.99
Complete family of 2 fonts: $18.99
Gutknecht Font Family was designed by Shane Brandes and published by Proportional Lime. Gutknecht contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Gutknecht Family

2 fonts

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$9.49

Pack of 2 styles:

$18.99

About Gutknecht Font Family


Jobst Gutknecht was a highly successful printer in the city of Nuremburg from 1514 to 1542. He published the "Achtliederbuch" (the first Lutheran hymnal, with a whole 4 tunes) and many works by Martin Luther. This font is an accurate "recutting" of the font face Gutknecht used for the body text in his printed works. It has been extended to over 900 glyphs adding hundreds for modern use. It also presents many ancient things like old ligatures such as "tz", a hedera, and alternate style pilcrow for visual interest. And for those conservative types the modern lower case "k" is also available.

Designers: Shane Brandes

Publisher: Proportional Lime

Foundry: Proportional Lime

Design Owner: Proportional Lime

MyFonts debut: Feb 19, 2013

Gutknecht

About Proportional Lime

Proportional Lime Type Foundry is a second floor operation that is overrun with a bird, cats, and unpleasant levels of heat, some of which is generated by the obsolescent machinery, and the rest enforced by the laws of thermodynamics. The bird owns the cats. And the cats own the humans. However, even considering the aggressive nature of the bird's endless commentary, and the cat's intermittent proofreading sessions, work is still routinely accomplished, and the goal of creating historically influenced typefaces achieved. We at PLTF desire to create typefaces that accurately recreate the feel of the old printing technologies for use in the modern world and also to explore novel designs.

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