First issued by Berthold in 1898 as Accidenz-Grotesk. Many loosely related styles from various sources were incorporated into the family. Further extended and homogenized by G.G. Lange from the late 1950s on. Lange regards Royal-Groteskas the key source and credits it to Ferdinand Theinhardt, but that is disputed, see Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler’s article in Tino Graß: Schriftgestalten (2008) and Indra Kupferschmid’s blog post. Distributed in the US and UK as Standard [Meggs] and commonly used in the 1950s–60s.
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Download Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk Bold For Free, View Sample Text, Rating And More On Fontsgeek.com. Akzidenz Grotesk. Akzidenz Grotesk is a grotesque sans-serif typeface that dates back to 1896. It was the first sans-serif typeface to ever be widely used and it later influenced the design of Helvetica.
AG Old Face (1984) is a redrawing made for phototypesetting that returns to the original forms prior to the 1950s homogenization.
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Linotype’s digital version was renamed to Basic Commercial for trademark reasons. Berthold’s digitization was reworked as Akzidenz Grotesk Next (2006). Akzidenz Grotesk Pro (2007) adds Cyrillics (by Vladimir Yefimov, Condensed by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan) and Greek (by Panos Haratzopoulos). [Typophile] CastleType’s Standard CT is a digital interpretation that uses the export name.