Woellmer Type Foundry

The Wöllmer Type Foundry was founded by black-letter and script type designer Wilhelm Wöllmer. Wöllmer was first assistant in the commercial type foundry of Eduard Haenel. Wöllmer founded his own company in 1854 in Berlin as a commercial printing business. Ten years later, in 1864, he supplemented the business by opening a type foundry which remained in operation until 1938.

Wöllmer Type Foundry
TypeDefunct
IndustryType foundry
Founded1854
FounderWilhelm Wöllmer
Defunct1938
HeadquartersGermany
Key people
Wilhelm Wöllmer

Typefaces
  • Series 1-6 (1905)
  • Atlantis Grotesk (1931)
  • Attraktion (1925, Wöllmer)
  • Barberina (1925, Wöllmer)
  • Berliner Gothic (1910, Wöllmer)
  • Berliner Gotisch (1909)
  • Berolina (1930, Wöllmer)
  • Boldrini (1902)
  • Breite magere Kolonial (1911)
  • Breite Magere Medieval (1894)
  • Consul (1903)
  • Deutsche Reichsfraktur (before 1925)
  • Deutsche Reichs-Schrift (1915, Arthur Pestner)
  • Drescher Eilschrift (1934, Arno Drescher)
  • Empire Messing (1910s)
  • Favorit (c. 1900)
  • Fette Freihand Ornamente (1903)
  • Fette Globus (1898)
  • Fette Zabel Antiqua (Lucian Zabel)
  • Freihand-Linien (1901)
  • Freihand-Ornamente (1901)
  • Gabriel (1938, Hans Möhring)
  • Goethe Fraktur (1905)
  • Halbfette Transita (1904)
  • Jewel (1908)
  • Jochheim Deutsch (1934, Konrad Jochheim)
  • Kartenschrift Feodora (1925)
  • Kartenschrift Gerda (1915)
  • Kolonial (1904), also sold as Columbia by Amsterdam and as Buffalo by the H.C. Hansen Type Foundry of Boston.
  • Lessing Antiqua (1908)
  • Lessing Antiqua (1908)
  • Mercedes (1904)
  • Mercedes Antiqua (1904, Heinrich Wieynck)
  • Reiher Grotesk (1904)
  • Reuß-Schrift
  • Römische Initialen
  • Runde Buchgotisch (ca. 1900)
  • Schattierte Grotesk
  • Senats Antiqua (1920s)
  • Siegfried (c. 1900)
  • Uncial-Gotisch (c. 1900)
  • Wilke-Kursiv (1932, Martin Wilke) [1]
  • Wilke Versalien (1933, Martin Wilke) [1]
  • Wöllmer Antiqua (1907, Wieynck)
  • Wöllmer Fraktur (1937, Erich Meyer)
  • Zabel Roman (1928-30, Zabel)

References
  1. "Martin Wilke". Luc Devroye. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Retrieved 1 January 2021.


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