Hiero Rhode Explained

Hiero Rhode
Birth Date:	30 June 1903
Birth Place:	Saxony, Germany
Death Place:	Berlin, Germany
Nationality:	German
Known For:	Typography

Johannes Anton Hieronymus Rhode (1903-1954), known professionally as Hiero Rhode, was a German type designer.

Fonts Designed

• Humboldt Fraktur (1938, Stempel Type Foundry), named after the German researcher Alexander von Humboldt. Digitized by Helzel, Delbanco (2001, as DS Humboldt Fraktur), Gerhard Helzel, and Dieter Steffmann (2002).^[1]
  • Humboldt Fraktur halbfett (1938)^[2]
  • Humboldt Fraktur Bierbuchftaben (1938)^[2]
• Hiero Rhode Roman (1945, Johannes Wagner Type Foundry), matching italic by Karl Hans Walter.^{[1] [3] [4]}
  • Hiero Rhode Roman fett (1945)^[5]
• Hiero Rhode Antiqua (1944, Johannes Wagner Type Foundry), digitized by Ari Rafaeli (2006).^[1]
  • Hiero Rhode Antiqua fett (1946)^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johannes Anton Hiero Rhode . luc.devroye.org. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 25 May 2021.
2. Web site: Rhode.
3. Book: Berry . William Turner . The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces . 1962 . Pitman Publishing Corporation . en.
4. Book: Journal of Scholarly Publishing . October 1979 . University of Toronto Press . en.
5. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983,, p. 114.