Dieter Steffmann
Our friend Brian Donnelly points us toward a huge archive of Dieter Steffmann’s fonts. A lot of them are of the gothic/novelty/not-very-useful variety, but I found several great fonts in the mix. I like Marketing Script and Faktos a lot and Maximilian has some nice lowercase characters.
I’m a little worried though, because I know I’ve seen some of these fonts elsewhere. Let’s hope that someone’s ripping off Dieter’s work and not the other way around.
4 Comments
Justin Callaghan / March 1, 2005 @ 8:59 am
Most of Dieter’s fonts seem to come from old analog sources, so some of his collection has likely been digitized by others, under different names. Not so much “ripping off” as being born of common ancestors.
Brian Donnelly / March 1, 2005 @ 3:20 pm
Cool. I am a friend. I dig. Faktos is cool - good for headline work… I missed that one on my first look at the archive!
forrest / March 8, 2005 @ 6:19 pm
Steffmann’s done all of us a huge service by digitizing so many different blackletter typefaces. I mostly just use his faces to generate specimens for my own blackletter projects, but he’s put in a lot of work and I totally don’t consider that stuff to be novelty work at all. He’s the only source for digital versions of several of Rudolf Koch’s typefaces!
Cory Maylett / September 7, 2005 @ 11:31 pm
I don’t know Dieter, but I do know that Faktos isn’t his font design, and I know it isn’t a free font. I know this because I designed Faktos several years ago as a shareware Macintosh Type 1 font. I’m happy that people like it enough to use it, but it’s more than a little annoying not to get paid for your work. It’s even more annoying to have it ripped off by someone who takes credit for it and then proceeds to give it away for free — illegally, I might add.
RSS feed for comments on this post
Comments are closed for this post.