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Maiers Nr 21 Pro

Maiers Nr 21 Pro

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Individual Styles from $42.00
Complete family of 3 fonts: $110.00
Maiers Nr 21 Pro Font Family was designed by Ingo Zimmermann and published by Ingo. Maiers Nr 21 Pro contains 3 styles and family package options.

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About Maiers Nr 21 Pro Font Family


A handwritten ”font for technicians“ from ca. 1900.

Very geometrical, rigid forms borrowed from the typical characteristics of Jugendstil / Art Nouveau.


This script is found in a magazine from the Otto Maier publishing house, Ravensburg, which was issued sometime in the years shortly before WWI. The magazine is entitled ”Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker: Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete“ (Collection of scripts for technical specialists: reduced scripts of the most significant alphabets) and published by Karl O. Maier. The original copy, produced by means of a galvanized plate, is just 7 centimeters wide. It served as the model for technical professions in which, at that time, the captions of drawings were still done by hand.

The characters have been scanned, digitized and greatly magnified. Special attention was given to ensure the ”uneven“ edges, typical of handwritten script, remained effectively noticeable even in the digitized form. As a result, this ”technical“ font retains a handmade touch.

Especially worthy of note are the Jugendstil forms characteristic at the turn of the19th century.

In comparison, many alleged ”ultramodern“ font types of today suddenly look quite old-fashioned.

Maier’s Nr. 21 Pro is suitable for all European languages. It includes ”Latin Extended-A,“ for Central and Eastern Europe incl. Turkish, and even Cyrillic and Greek, too.

The font includes several stylistic alternates as well as a number of ligatures.

Designers: Ingo Zimmermann

Publisher: Ingo

Foundry: Ingo

Design Owner: Ingo

MyFonts debut: Nov 2, 2021

Maiers Nr 21 Pro

About Ingo

Founded in 1994, ingoFonts provides the fonts designed and crafted by me, Ingo Zimmermann. I am a type design professional located in Augsburg, Germany, and working in corporate and editorial design. My very first fonts were stencils which I cut out of paperboard and used in graffiti. During my studies I began to publish my fonts under the label ingoFonts, and of all it started with a blackletter: ”Faber Fraktur.“ By now my designs include fonts of all styles, from classical to modern, script fonts, revivals of historic typefaces, Romans, sans serifs, decorative fonts, including fonts like ”Biró Script“, ”Absolut“ or ”Maier's Nr.8“, which seem to be growing quite popular since they've been published.

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