page_title: Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry
section_title: Typefaces
hierarchical_section_title: Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry / Typefaces
caption_attribution_description: Español: Logotipo_ICC_Buenos_Aires_1965
context_page_description: J.G. Schelter & Giesecke was a German type foundry and manufacturer of printing presses started 1819 in Leipzig by punchcutter Johann Schelter and typefounder Christian Giesecke. The foundry was nationalized in 1946 by the new German Democratic Republic, forming Typoart, Dresden.
context_section_description: These foundry types were produced by Schelter & Giesecke:
  Alt Latein (1924)
  Belwe Roman (1907, Georg Belwe)
  Gravira (1935, Herbert Thannhaueser)
  Romanisch, later copied by the Central Type Foundry of Saint Louis as De Vinne.
  Schelter Antiqua (1905)
  Shakespere Medaeval (1927–1929, Georg Belwe)
  Wieland (1926, Georg Belwe)
  Schelter & Giesecke's Breite halbfette Grotesk (wide, semibold sans-serif) was popular in trade and advertising printing in the mid-twentieth century, and was used by both Bauhaus-movement printers and Swiss-style designers of the mid-century. Christian Schwartz's FF Bau is a loose digitisation.
  The foundry claimed by the twentieth century to have been one of the first to offer general-purpose sans-serif typefaces with lower-case, as early as 1825. This was repeated by some authors, but is now known to be untrue: Wolfgang Homola dates it to 1882 based on a study of Schelter & Giesecke specimens.
caption: A poster for the International Bartenders Association competition of 1965 in Breite halbfette Grotesk.
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