BACKGROUND: Jena is one of the first Fraktur faces to sport the civilized feature of a cursive. Given the cursive nature of the traditional letter, it would have been easy simply to slope it, producing an ‘Oblique Fraktur’. I decided however to create it the way a German scribe versed in the way of the Latins, maybe in an episcopal scriptory, would have done it. That is, with the Italian cancelleresca as the starting point. This, I have always claimed, is as legitimately a Gothic script as anything current at that time north of the Alps; as Gothic as the rotunda was Romanesque. —LB
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BY: LARS BERGQUIST
Lars Bergquist, of Timberwolf Type, born in 1936, is a self-proclaimed "leftover from the age of lead type and letterpress printing." His first avocation was history, which may well explain his love of classical letterforms, historically significant typefaces and "...fuddy-duddy typography in general." Recently retired from a lifetime in the technically advanced field of reference publishing, he has decided to spend his next life as a dedicated type designer. His typeface Absolut Type -- published by PSY/OPS as Aalborg -- received a Certificate of Excellence in the Bukva:raz! type contest arranged by the ATypI in 2001. He has been happily married to the same woman since 1964, lives outside Stockholm, Sweden, and has two daughters and a grandson. His atypical interests are history, small arms, photography and hiking in the mountains of Lapland.
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