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Lo-Type® BQ Medium Italic

- by Louis Oppenheim & Erik Spiekermann
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Lo-Type® BQ Pro Medium Italic
  Format: OpenType Pro

... is part of the Lo-Type® BQ Font Family, comprising altogether 6 fonts in OpenType Pro format.
Character set features:
fractions supersub ordinals alternates ligatures proplining caseforms
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Lo-Type® BQ Pro Medium
Lo-Type® BQ Pro Medium Italic
Lo-Type® Pro Medium
Lo-Type® Pro Medium Italic
Exclusively contained in:
LoType Pro BQ
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Designer Erik Spiekermann created the following fonts: Berliner Grotesk® BQ (1913), Lo-Type® BQ (1914 ,this font has been adapted from the original for use in photosetting applications), ITC Officina Sans® (1990), ITC Officina Serif® (1990). Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Erik Spiekermann.
Louis Oppenheim (born 1879 in Coburg, died 1936 in Berlin) was a Graphic design graphic artist, painter and type designer. Born in Coburg, Oppenheim studied in London from 1899 to 1906. He moved to Berlin and started his work as a graphic artist in 1910, signing his work with his initials, “LO” and working for clients such as AES, the Reichsbahn, Persil and Adrema. Oppenheim worked for the type foundry Bertholdand created a handful of significant and wide-spread typefaces, all [...]

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Designer: Louis Oppenheim / Erik Spiekermann, 1913
Lo-Type® BQ Medium Italic belongs to the Lo-Type® BQ Font Family which is part of the Berthold.
Designed by Louis Oppenheim for the Berthold foundry, Lo-Type was revived for digital typesetting by Erik Spiekermann in 1980. A display face typical of its time, it has an irregular outline which gives it a hand cut feel. Lo-Type is useful for advertising, posters and headlines.
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