Blackletter from 1983

Question

looking for this typeface
It was released here in 1983
not Letraset, or Mecanorma
any help would be appreciated
thanks

Answer 1

Appears to be Fenwick (Dan X. Solo) / Fenwick Woodtype (Dieter Steffmann), but neither is commercially available any longer. A Google search will lead you to some sketchy download sources....

Comments

thank you - i knew i have seen it before
Dan Solo should be the first who has digitized it
Any further informations? Designer, foundry, year of release?

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Sorry, the Solotype website doesn’t provide any background information, and I haven’t found it in type specimens from the moveable type era (though I’ve only looked at a handful so far).

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No need to check out the sketchy places. Dieter Steffman's blackletter fonts, including Fenwick Woodtype, can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160203234441/http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm

They were all released for non-commercial use only, despite the conflicting information you may find on various sketchy free-font-download websites.

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thanks
i found out more
it also was released from Mecanorma
called Decaligra
but still not sure if this was the original design - maybe inspired from an old wood type of unknown source