URWGrotesk font

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URW Grotesk was designed exclusively for URW by Prof. Hermann Zapf in 1985. At the same time, Zapf designed URW Antiqua to go with URW Grotesk. At that time, we were working with a large German publishing house (Axel Springer) on type design solutions to replace certain of their newspaper fonts.

Test pages of large German newspapers (e.g. Bildzeitung) were printed with URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua font families. For reasons not disclosed to us, the project was dropped and Springer never used URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua for that purpose.

Anyway, Zapf finished his designs and URW produced both families. More…

Designers: Hermann Zapf
Source: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/grotesk/






URW Grotesk ExtraLight



URW Grotesk ExtraLight Oblique



URW Grotesk Light



URW Grotesk SC Light



URW Grotesk Light Oblique



URW Grotesk Light Italic



URW Grotesk Regular



URW Grotesk SC Regular



URW Grotesk Oblique



URW Grotesk Italic



URW Grotesk Medium



URW Grotesk Medium Oblique



URW Grotesk Medium Italic



URW Grotesk Bold



URW Grotesk Bold Oblique



URW Grotesk Bold Italic



URW Grotesk Cond ExtraLight



URW Grotesk Cond Light



URW Grotesk Cond Bold



URW Grotesk ExtraNarrow ExtraLight