The Swiss digital type foundry Optimo has released an alternative digitisation of Akzidenz-Grotesk named 'Theinhardt'. Īs typeface designs are generally not legally protected (unlike their names, which can be trademarked), several alternative digitisations inspired by Akzidenz-Grotesk have been released under alternative names. Dan Reynolds additionally suggests that the name Akzidenz-Grotesk may have been intended as a brand extension following on from an 'Accidenz-Gothisch' blackletter face sold by the Bauer & Co. Some early adverts that present Akzidenz-Grotesk are co-signed by both brands. ) According to Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler and Kupferschmid, a likely source for some styles of Akzidenz-Grotesk is Berthold's 1897 purchase of the Bauer Foundry of Stuttgart (not to be confused with the much better-known Bauer Type Foundry of Frankfurt) Kupferschmid concludes that the design appears to be related to a shadowed sans-serif ('Schattierte Grotesk') sold by the Bauer Foundry and reviewed in a printing journal in 1896, and confusion may have occurred with fonts held by Berthold that the Theinhardt foundry licensed.
BERTHOLD AKZIDENZ GROTESK BE BOLD FULL
Professor Indra Kupferschmid, who has researched the early use of sans-serifs in Germany, however reports that this cannot be a full explanation of the family's history: 'there must have been an Accidenz-Grotesk at Berthold before the acquisition of Theinhardtâs foundry in 1908.' (Early references to Akzidenz-Grotesk at Berthold often use the alternative spelling 'Accidenz-Grotesk'. This had been established by businessman and punchcutter Ferdinand Theinhardt, who was otherwise particularly famous for his scholarly endeavours in the field of hieroglyph and Syriac typefaces he had sold the business in 1885. It was claimed by Berthold's post-war artistic director Günter Gerhard Lange that a key source of Akzidenz-Grotesk was types from the Ferdinand Theinhardt type foundry.
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