Shriftguss type foundry
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Shriftguss was a German
type foundry
. As it was in the Eastern Zone, it was probably incorporated into VEB Typoart
sometime after 1945.
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Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
type foundry
Type foundry
A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...
. As it was in the Eastern Zone, it was probably incorporated into VEB Typoart
VEB Typoart
VEB Typoart was the only type foundry of East Germany. It was a state-owned enterprise located in Dresden. The foundry's most influential art directors were Herbert Thannhäuser and Albert Kapr.-History:...
sometime after 1945.