Bernhard Font Family

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Lucian Bernhard – born 15. 3. 1883 in Stuttgart, Germany, died 29. 5. 1972 in New York, USA – graphic artist, illustrator, painter, type designer, interior designer, teacher. Born as Emil Kahn, he assumes his pseudonym in 1905. Mostly self-taught, he studied briefly at the Akademie iin Munich. 1901: moves to Berlin. 1903: wins a poster competition for Priester matches. 1904: art director of the Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst. 1910: works with Hans Sachs on the publication of the [...]

Bernhard Condensed Bold (1912) German designer Lucian Bernhard developed Bernhard Antiqua, the first of his many typefaces, in 1912. The Flinsch foundry in Frankfurt/Main cast the first weights; further weights followed in the 1920s (these were produced by Bauer, which had acquired Flinsch). Bernhard Condensed Bold, the only one of Bernhard Antiqua’s weights currently available in digital form, is a design with marked historical influence. Available through the Linotype Library, it brings the [...]

The German typeface artist Lucian Bernhard designed Bernhard Antiqua as the first of his many text typefaces. The first weights were produced in 1912 by the foundry Flinsch in Frankfurt am Main. Further weights followed in the 1920s, produced by the Bauersche foundry, which had acquired Flinsch in the meantime. Bernhard font is an alphabet with a marked historical influence. It brings the viewer back to the early 20th century, when the bold forms of this typeface graced advertising displays and posters. Distinguishing characteristics of this typeface are the cross of the capital W and the rounding of the capital R. Linotype's Bernhard condensed bold, with its narrow, robust forms, is best for headlines in medium and larger point sizes.