1543 German Deluxe Set OTF

This family Two complete files plus a limited Initials one was created inspired from the sets of fonts used in 1543 by Michael Isingrin, printer in Basell Germany to print the splendid "New Kreterbuch..." "New herbal..." , with numerous nice pictures, the masterpiece of Leonhart Fuchs, father of the modern botany. It is a Schwabacher pattern, with three different sets of fonts, small 4mm for the upper case in the main text, larger for titles 8mm for the upper case and large Initials or lettrines five lines of main text . This font contains standard ligatures and German historical ligatures german double s, long s, tz, ch,... and diacritics special umlaut "e superscript" and "" instead of dieresis with letters a, o and u, naturely, we have added numerous letters lacking in the original to permit a contemporary use of the font.