Johannes Wagner Type Foundry

Johannes Wagner, Inh.

Industry	Type foundry
Founded	1921
Founder(s)	Johannes Wagner
Headquarters	Ingolstadt, Germany

Johannes Wagner, Inh. ia a type foundry created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt in 1956.^[1] In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most of those from Berthold.^[2]

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundryr^[3]:

• Antiqua 505 (1940, Arno Drescher), also called Manutius.
• Hiero Rhode Roman + Bold (1945, Hiero Rhode)
  • Hiero Rhode Roman Italic (1945, Karl Hans Walter)

References

1. ^ "Wagner". MyFonts. 2011-11-22. http://new.myfonts.com/foundry/Wagner/. Retrieved 2011-11-22. 
2. ^ Duensing, Paul Hayden Metal Type: Whither Ten Years Hense? Fine Print Magazine, January 1985.
3. ^ 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