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Johannes Wagner Type Foundry

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Industry
  
Type foundry

Founder
  
Johannes Wagner

Founded
  
1921

Headquarters
  
Ingolstadt, Germany

Johannes Wagner, Inh. is a type foundry created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt in 1956. In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most of those from Berthold.

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundryr:

  • Antiqua 505 (1940, Arno Drescher), also called Manutius.
  • Hiero Rhode Roman + Bold (1945, Hiero Rhode)
  • Hiero Rhode Roman Italic (1945, Karl Hans Walter)

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