What is the Hellschreiber font?

The birth of the monospaced types dates back to the past. There was a need for the creation of typesets for typewriters. The difficulty was to align the different glyphs in the same width. This led to particular problems with letters like “M” and “l”; the former seemed to be squeezed into the same width of all letters and the second one appeared way too streched. Despite – or perhaps because of – the impression of the typewriter is still popular with Graphic Designers. Nowadays there are even monospaced versions of primarily proportional types; for example the the Sans Mono designed by Lucas de Groot or the DIN Mono. More… Then again, why not the other way round?! In the first half of the Nineties, Erik Spiekermann developed a proportional type named ITC Officina based on the Letter Gothic. According to a survey on the 100 best fonts of all time conducted by FontShop, ITC Officina is in an eighth place, far ahead of its forerunner. This was the reason for me to create a wider design with a Serif and a Sans Serif based on the queen of all monospaced types – the Courier.

Hellschreiber Font families

The Hellschreiber includes the following font families:

• Hellschreiber Sans Light
• Hellschreiber Sans Light Italic
• Hellschreiber Sans Medium
• Hellschreiber Sans Medium Italic
• Hellschreiber Sans Bold
• Hellschreiber Sans Bold Italic
• Hellschreiber Serif Light
• Hellschreiber Serif Light Italic
• Hellschreiber Serif Medium
• Hellschreiber Serif Medium Italic
• Hellschreiber Serif Bold
• Hellschreiber Serif Bold Italic

Hellschreiber Preview

Here is a preview of how Hellschreiber will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.