Weber Typefoundry

C.E. Weber was a German type foundry established in 1827 in Stuttgart. Noted designers working for the foundry included Georg Trump, and Ernst Schneidler. The foundry closed in 1970;[1] some designs passed to the Johannes Wagner Type Foundry, others to Stempel.[2]

C.E. Weber Typefoundry

Type	Aktiengesellschaft
Industry	Type foundry
Founded	1827
Defunct	1970
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Germany
Key people	Georg Trump

Typefaces

Foundry types produced by C.E. Weber:[3]

• Amati (1951, Georg Trump)
• Codex (1954-56, Georg Trump)
• Delphin (1951-55, Georg Trump)
• Deutsch Römisch (1926, F. H. E. Schneidler)
• Forelle (1936, Erich Mollowitz), originally cast by Trennert as Rheingold. Also copied by Stephenson Blake as Mercury.
• Forum (Georg Trump)
• Holländisch (1922 - 26, Peter A. Demeter)
• Hollandse Mediaeval (1912, S. H. De Roos), later sold by Intertype as Mediaeval.
• Jaguar (1967, Georg Trump)
• Mauritius (1965, Georg Trump)
• Mimosa, a knock-off of Copperplate Gothic, later cast by Typoart.
• Palomba (1955, Georg Trump)
• Schadow (1938-52, Georg Trump)
• Signum (1955, Georg Trump)
• Time (1956, Georg Trump)
• Trump Mediaeval (1954, Georg Trump), also made by Linotype (Frankfurt).

References

1. "Weber". MyFonts. 2011-11-22. 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