Ludwig & Mayer

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Schriftgießerei Ludwig & Mayer
TypeDefunct
Industry Type foundry
Founded1875
FounderCarl Jacob Ludwig
Defunct1984
HeadquartersGermany
Key people
 Karlgeorg Hoefer, Jakob Erbar, Helmut Matheis

Ludwig & Mayer was a German type foundry in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important designers worked for the Ludwig and Mayer type foundry, including Heinrich Jost, Karlgeorg Hoefer, Helmut Matheis, and most notably Jakob Erbar, whose Erbar Book was one of the first geometric sans-serif typefaces, predating both Paul Renner's Futura and Rudolf Koch's Kabel by some five years. Starting in 1925, Ludwig & Mayer types were distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association. When the foundry ceased operations in 1984, rights to the typefaces was transmitted to the Neufville Typefoundry. [1]

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Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by Ludwig & Mayer: [2]

House Faces

  • Allemannia Fraktur (1908), later digitized by Mew Varissara Ophaswongse (2018)
  • Allright (1936)
  • Altenburger Gotisch (1928)
  • Bastard Mediaeval
  • Beatrice (1931)
  • Behrens
  • Chic
  • Cochin (1922)
  • Commerciale
  • Die Mode (1914-1915)
  • Diplomat (1964), later digitized as Diploma by Hans van Maanen (2009)
  • Excelsior (1914), a script face
  • Firmin Didot (1929), a version Didot. [3]
  • Hallo (1956)
  • Kombinette (1932)
  • Kupferplatte (1950)
  • Largo (1939)
  • Luminous
  • Magnet (1951)
  • Manolo, an art nouveau faced revived by Ralph Unger as RMU Manolo (2019)
  • Nelson (1902), an art nouveau face.
  • Samson Script
  • Wren

Designer Faces

Licensed Faces

The following faces were originally faces cut for line-casting by Simoncini SA.

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