LARISCH is a hand-lettered design by the Austrian calligrapher and teacher, Rudolf von Larisch. The original was used for the title page of the 1903 edition of BEISPIELE KUNSTLERISCHER SCHRIFT (Examples of Artistic Writing).
LARISCH is an attractive, casual set of caps of even strokes with rounded terminals. Except for the terminals, it is similar in style to Kunstler Grotesk. The numerals are lining or ranging figures, meaning they line up with the baseline, unlike old-style text figures. All are of equal width for setting up columns of numbers. The letters are well formed and easy to read, as you would expect from a writing master. Ligatures includes CH (123), CK (125), FT (135), LA (137), LO (167), OO (172), CO (177) and TT (181. An alternative O with underscore is provided at position 111. Friendly, but not fancy -- a very useful all-cap font.
RUDOLF von LARISCH Born Verona, Italy 1856. Died Vienna, Austria 1934. Type-designer, calligrapher, teacher. Larisch taught lettering at Kunstgewerbescule (School of the Commercial Arts) and Akademie der Bildenden Kunste (Academy for Visual Arts), both in Vienna. His principle focus was on improving the methodology of teaching lettering. Among his publications were UNTERRICHT IN ORNAMENTALER SCHRIFT (Instruction in ornamental writing) and several editions of BEISPIELE KUNSTLERISCHER SCHRIFT (Examples of Artistic Writing). The latter would feature examples by such well known artists as George Auriol, Ethel Lacombe and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, as well as the work of his students.
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