Ludwig & Mayer
| Defunct | |
| Industry | Type foundry |
| Defunct | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Germany |
Key people | Karlgeorg Hoefer, Jakob Erbar, Helmut Matheis |
Ludwig & Mayer was a German type foundry in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important designers worked for the Ludwig and Mayer type foundry, including Heinrich Jost, Karlgeorg Hoefer, Helmut Matheis, and most notably Jakob Erbar, whose Erbar Book was one of the first geometric sans-serif typefaces, predating both Paul Renner's Futura and Rudolf Koch's Kabel by some five years. Starting in 1925, Ludwig & Mayer types were distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association. When the foundry ceased operations in 1984, rights to the typefaces was transmitted to the Neufville Foundry.[1]
Typefaces
These foundry types were produced by Ludwig & Mayer:[2]
- Aeterna (1927, Heinrich Jost), also known as Jost Mediaval
- Allegro (1936, Hans Bohn)
- Candida (1936, Jakob Erbar)
- Charleston (1967, Hace Frey)
- Charme (1958, Helmut Matheis)
- Compliment (1966, Helmut Matheis)
- Dominante (1959, Johannes Schweitzer), offered for machine composition by Simoncini (1962).
- Domino (1959, Alfred Riedel)
- Dynamo (1930, K. Sommer)
- Elegance (1968, Karlgeorg Hoefer)
- Erbar (1922-30, Jakob Erbar)
- Feder Grotesk (1910, Jakob Erbar)
- Koloss (1923, Jakob Erbar)
- Krimhilde (1934, Albert Augspurg)
- Largo
- Life (1964, W. Bilz), also available in linotype matrices from Simoncini
- Magnet (1951, Arthur Murakowski)
- Mathies Mobil (1960, Helmut Matheis)
- Mona Lisa (1930, Albert Augspurg)
- Monastic
- Permanent (1962, Karlgeorg Hoefer)
- Primadonna (Helmut Matheis)
- Slogan (1959, Helmut Matheis)
- Sonderdruck (1923), sold in the United States as Nicolas Cochin and Le Mercure
External links
References
- ↑ "Ludwig & Mayer". Typophile. 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 2408-249