00 Eckmania Variable

About 00 Eckmania

00 Eckmania is a digital interpretation of "Eckmannschrift", a 1900 typeface designed by Otto Eckmann (punches cut by Louis Hoell) and published at the Rudhardsche foundry (under the supervision of Karl Klingspor).
Although there are many digitisations, there was still a missing revival, faithful to the original yet redesigned and adapted to contemporary aesthetics and uses. Until now!
Instead of focusing on a single source, 00 Eckmania encapsulates a whole variety of tones of voices through its optical size axis.
The small size extreme can actually hold surprisingly well at text sizes and withstand relatively long pieces of text; while the display cuts show their full potential of expressiveness and flourishes.
The terminals seemingly morph from serif-like shapes to pen brush strokes creating a wide array of styles.
Two more axes to go? Unpublished drawings from Otto Eckmann for "Eckmann-Kursiv" and "Eckmann Initialen" could be very interesting historical sources to to draw inspiration from for potential Italic and Monospace axes. So this is only the first chapter!

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