Johann Christian Bauer founded the Bauersche Gießerei in Frankfurt am Main in 1837. The most important designers employed by Bauer included Emil Rudolf Weiß, Heinrich Wieynck, Heinrich Jost, Lucian Bernhard, Imre Reiner, F. H. E. Schneidler, Konrad F. Bauer and Walter Baum. In 1972, the foundry closed its operations in Frankfurt and moved production to a former subsidiary in Barcelona, Fundición Tipográfica Neufville.
The Venus type family is a historic hot metal face with left slanted weights that is used for the german cartographic map production. There are also special typefaces required like the Roemisch and Topografische Zahlentafel type family.
The Platinum Collection is the exclusive series of optimized classic typefaces from the Linotype Library.
XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
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