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A crude, condensed advertising grotesque with sharp concave terminals, built for tight headlines.
About
Reymund Schröder spent ten years on and off drawing Dumbria from a 1902 specimen by the Mannheim foundry Sachs & Co., pushing its narrow proportions and flared terminals further. Set tight, it turns headlines into dense black blocks with plenty of bite. Five weights from Regular to Black, with a good stock of alternates.
Classification
Narrow, high-contrast display grotesque with concave, flared terminals and spiky details, drawn from a 1902 Sachs & Co. specimen book. Counters squeezed to thin slivers; alternates include a long-tailed a, a long r and squarish punctuation.
Weights
RegularMediumBoldExtraBoldBlack
Optical sizes and widths
Condensed
Languages
Latin
Tags
displaycondensedgrotesqueflaredconcave-terminalsvictorianadvertisingheadlineposterrevivaleccentric