Johannes Wagner Type Foundry Explained

Johannes Wagner, Inh.
Foundation:	1921
Founder:	Johannes Wagner
Location:	Ingolstadt, Germany

Johannes Wagner, Inh. was a type foundry created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt in 1956.^[1] In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most of those from Berthold.^[2] The company, by then named Letternservice Ingolstadt, closed in 2002, and its printing assets were moved to the printing museum in Leipzig.^[3]

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundry:^[4]

• Antiqua 505 (1940, Arno Drescher), also called Manutius.
• Hiero Rhode Antiqua (1944, Hiero Rhode), digitized by Ari Rafaeli (2006).
  • Hiero Rhode Antiqua fett (1946, Hiero Rhode)^[5]
• Hiero Rhode Roman (1945, Hiero Rhode)^{[6] [7]}
  • Hiero Rhode Roman Italic (1945, Karl Hans Walter)^[8]
  • Hiero Rhode Roman fett (1945, Hiero Rhode)^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wagner . MyFonts . 2011-11-22 . 2011-11-22.
2. Duensing, Paul Hayden Metal Type: Whither Ten Years Hense? Fine Print Magazine, January 1985.
3. Web site: Johannes Wagner Typophile - comments by Erik Spiekermann. Spiekermann. Erik. January 1, 2009. www.typophile.com. en. 2017-12-31.
4. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983,, p. 2408–249
5. http://www.klingspor-museum.de/KlingsporKuenstler/Schriftdesigner/Rhode/HRhode.pdf, Rhode
6. Book: Berry . William Turner . The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces . 1962 . Pitman Publishing Corporation . en.
7. Book: Journal of Scholarly Publishing . October 1979 . University of Toronto Press . en.
8. Web site: Johannes Anton Hiero Rhode . luc.devroye.org. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 25 May 2021.
9. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983,, p. 114.