Georg Trump

About a decade after his unique treatment of the Garalde with Trump Mediaeval, Georg Trump took on the transitional genre with Mauritius, which was to be his last face. He started working on it in 1965. The Weber foundry published a pamphlet previewing it under the name Barock-Antiqua in 1967, then announced the availability of the metal types a year later. The global printing industry was already in third gear with cold type technology, so there weren’t that many takers. Consequently, Trump’s swan song was unfairly overlooked by typography historians and practitioners. It never made it to film technology or scalable fonts. This digital retooling is the result of obsessing over a great designer’s final type design effort, and trying to understand the reasons behind its vanishing from typography’s collective mind. All the problems of the metal types were resolved, the design was expanded into a larger family of three weights and two widths, and plenty of bells and whistles were added.