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Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk Italic
For Akzidenz Grotesk specifically and this for grotesques in general: Acumin – History It goes back quite a bit (way before digital type) and was also the inspiration for Helvetica. You may not find the convenient hard date you are looking for, but you will get a boatload of back history. 49 Professional Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk BE Extra Bold Fonts to Download. Please note: If you want to create professional printout, you should consider a commercial font. Free fonts often have not all characters and signs, and have no kerning pairs (Avenue ↔ A venue, Tea ↔ T ea). Check it for free with Typograph. Akzidenz Grotesk. Akzidenz Grotesk is a grotesque sans-serif typeface that dates back to 1896. It was the first sans-serif typeface to ever be widely used and it later influenced the design of Helvetica. Akzidenz Grotesk has a much lower x-height than Helvetica which is an easy way to tell the two apart. First issued by Berthold in 1898 as Accidenz-Grotesk. Many loosely related styles from various sources were incorporated into the family, see also Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed. Further extended and homogenized by G.G. Lange from the late 1950s on. Lange regarded Royal-Grotesk as the key source and credited it to Ferdinand Theinhardt, but that is refuted, see Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler’s.