The type case
Altdeutsche Fraktur
in the case
Sizes & styles
- Origin
- Monotype Series 47, a Fraktur of the Breitkopf family, cut for the Monotype composing machine around 1910 and withdrawn in the late 1960s. A set of its matrices survived at Offizin Parnassia Vättis, which cast our type from it.
- Caster
- Offizin Parnassia Vättis
- Matrices
- Monotype series 47
- Acquired
- 2025
- Size
- 11D — roman, on 12D body — composition
- Status
- In the case
Used in
- Little Snow-White
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm · in preparation