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Typographicist



Zierde is a take on early advertising, small-copy grotesks of the late 19th/early 20th century, and is largely inspired by Miller & Richard’s own range of Grotesques. More importantly, Zierde is accompanied by a large set of ornaments (+200)  which hark back to the look-and-feel of the early-modernist arts and crafts movement. The ornaments in, and presentation of, Zierde owe much credit to J.G Schelter & Giesecke’s 1913 type specimen book ‘Die Zierde’. The strong functional uppercase sans-serifs alongside luscious, beautiful patterns in ‘Die Zierde’ make for beautiful combinations. This early-modernist use of grotesk alongside ornament looks bizarre in the eyes of us used to seeing sans-serifs in more formal, sterile settings. The face itself retains some historical flourishes such as the eccentric leaning angle of the italics, the long cross-bar on the ‘G’, the gammy-leg of the ‘R’, a strange ampersand and some irregular terminals across the weights. Zierde is display face meant for headlines, titles, short-copy, labels and logos. It comes in caps and small caps, Latin and Cyrillic.

Zierde Grotesk is currently available YouWorkForThem and will be soon available on MyFonts.



Zierde Grotesk is currently available YouWorkForThem and will be soon available on MyFonts.


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Lewis is a graduate of Reading MATD 2018-19 and now he makes custom and commercial fonts, logos and lettering for a living. He is on FutureFonts and has won awards for his Latin, Greek and Cyrillic type, and has a website called East of Rome where he sells fonts and writes articles. For trial versions of fonts or to ask a question about anything at all, email him at











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