Opentype Font Revivals of Medieval Scripts and Classic Typefaces

The Oldtype "Alter Gotisch" Font

Current Version: ALOT Alter Gotisch 1.0 (Initial Release - April 2012)

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This is Alter Littera's first original design. The font has been created attempting not to reproduce any historical typeface in particular, but only to re-create the overall forms and style of classic black-letters from different time periods and places. Two specific sources must be acknowledeged nonetheless: (1) the "Black" type from William Caslon's A Specimen of Printing Types (1785), and (2) the "Caslon Gotisch" type by D. Stempel A.G. (1926). In addition to the usual standard characters for typesetting in modern Western languages, the font includes a comprehensive set of special characters, alternates and ligatures, plus Opentype features, that can be used for typesetting as in antique writings and printings. The glyphs are clean, smooth and definitely readable, so the font will be suitable not only for large titles and headings, but also for full text pages.

Adaptation from Typographische Mitteilungen - XXIII Jahrgang - Heft 2 (1926)

Sonnet by Spanish master writer Francisco de Quevedo (1648)

Adaptation from William Caslon's A Specimen of Printing Types (1785)

Adaptation from Gebr. Klingspor's Eine deutsche Schrift von Rudolf Koch (1910)

Adaptation from Erhard Ratdolt's Missale Augustanum (1496)