This box of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany.
Produced 1958–1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents the final effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete glyph sets. Thanks to Michael Wörgötter, a set of these cards is now in our collection, and his high-res scans are online. https://letterformarchive.org/news/schriftenkartei-german-font-index/
@letterformarchive oooh, I wonder if these scans are complete enough to vectorize...
@letterformarchive sounds like something to mess with if I see something I really like with no vectorized form available at least
@elfi They are some of the best you’ll get of a complete font, but due to ink squeeze, and not being from the type itself (printed from plates) they would only be a guide and not a direct source for basic vectorization.