Fust & Schoeffer Font

Fust & Schöffer ‘Durandus’ 118G, Gotico-Antiqua first used in Mainz by Peter Schöffer & Johann Fust for Guillaume Durand’s Rationale Divinorum Officorum in 1459. The book displays two sizes, the smaller 92G for the main text and the bigger and more contrasted 118G used only for the colophon and later for the famous 48-line Bible in 1462. Used until the end of the century.Type design workshop at Hochschule Mainz and Gutenberg-Bibliothek, Mainz, June 2016.Sources: Latin Bible, 1462 & Epistolae, Hieronymus, 1470 & De officiis, Cicero,1466.Workshop participants: Frederik Fuchs, Katharina Blust, Roxane Lhéoté, André van Rueth, Lai Ping So, Marlene Arnold, Marilyn Baumann, Bettina Andresen, Sophie Golle, Yasemin Fakili.Font designed and produced by Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas, directed by Jérôme Knebusch, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT), Nancy.Copyright © 2019 ANRT. All rights reserved.

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