Arnold Boecklin™ Font Family

Arnold Boecklin™ Regular (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Arnold Boecklin™ Central European Regular (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

The type foundry Otto Weisert in Stuttgart created Kalligraphia (1902) and Arnold Boecklin™ (1904). Traces of the floral forms of the Jugendstil can still be seen in Arnold Boecklin. Alphabets of this type were mainly meant for larger point sizes, as on posters. A decorative feel was much more important than legibility and Arnold Boecklin was of particular importance to the book design of the Jugendstil movement. Today the font is often used to remind people of ‘the good old [...]

In the second half of the 19th century there was a cold, ugly academic tendency making itself evident in all areas of design. It manifested itself in the incompetent repetition of earlier styles and considered that enough. But then young artists all over Europe started to break out of this torpidity and create something completely new. The origin of this renewed vigor lay in the philosophy and achievements of an outstanding figure of the times, William Morris (1834-1896). His goal was a [...]

The font Arnold Boecklin appeared in 1904 with the font foundry Otto Weisert. Traces of the floral forms of the Jugendstil can still be seen in this typeface. Alphabets of this type were mainly meant for larger point sizes, as on posters. A decorative feel was much more important than legibility and Arnold Boecklin was of particular importance to the book design of the Jugendstil movement. Today the font is often used to remind people of 'the good old days'.