The Heritage of Oldrich Menhart

• Prize
  Winner in Typefaces / Typography
• Company
  Briefcase Type Foundry
• Lead
  Tomas Brousil, Petra Docekalova
• Team
  Tomas Brousil, Petra Docekalova
• Client
  Briefcase Type Foundry
• Video
  Link to video

2022 marked 125th anniversary of birth of a master calligrapher and a great Czech typographer Old?ich Menhart. We believe that this is a great opportunity to finally release high-quality digitizations of his iconic typefaces. For the past few years, we have been intensively researching in the museum archives, studying Menhart's estate, correspondence, reading his textbooks and technical articles, and collecting both common prints and rare bibliophilis. As a result, we have gathered enough background material for high-quality digitization of his works. We like to call it digital archaeology.