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Malutzki Initials

Malutzki Initials

by Spirit & Bones
Individual Styles from $15.00
Complete family of 3 fonts: $40.00
Malutzki Initials Font Family was designed by Lena Schmidt, Peter Malutzki and published by Spirit & Bones. Malutzki Initials contains 6 styles and family package options.

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About Malutzki Initials Font Family


In 1980, Peter Malutzki, Heidi Hübner-Prochotta and Manfred Prochotta founded the FlugBlatt-Presse and began producing broadsheets, which they called FlugBlätter and which also gave their press its name. They were mostly woodcuts or linocuts, combined with hand-set typography. When they finished the series in 1984 there were 67 FlugBlätter. During a Frankfurt Book Fair in the 1980s the collector Rob Saunders acquired FlugBlatt No. 37 along with other prints. Later they became part Letterform Archive, a non-profit museum and special collection library in San Francisco, which Rob Saunders founded in 2014.

In 2021, Letterform Archive posted the FlugBlatt No. 37 on social media, where type designer Lena Schmidt saw it, immediately fell in love with it, and developed the plan to bring it into the digital world. After contacting Peter Malutzki – who is still working as a book artist today – and in close consultation with him, Schmidt translated the letterforms into a font series, Malutzki Initials. The three fonts can be used for black (single-color) text using the Regular style, or for multicolor text by applying different colors to the Letter Layer and Figure Layer styles.

Designers: Lena Schmidt, Peter Malutzki

Publisher: Spirit & Bones

Foundry: Spirit & Bones

Design Owner: Spirit & Bones

MyFonts debut: Oct 1, 2023

Malutzki Initials

About Spirit & Bones

Spirit & Bones is a German foundry based in Hamburg, founded in 2021 by artist and type designer Lena Schmidt a german painter and type designer. First she studied Fine Arts in Hamburg with professor Matt Mullican afterwards graphic design with a focus on type design with type designer and calligrapher professor Jovica Veljović. With the founding of Spirit & Bones, Lena Schmidt laid the foundation for a deeper and long-term engagement with the fascinating world of type design.

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