A type of “handwriting” discovered by chance, extremely abstract
On April 8, 1948 a certain Walter Plaga wrote a crude poem about an alleged hero on a commemorative plaque. The very poor reproduction of the handwritten original, etched into a metal sheet, produced extremely abstract forms so that — even if unintentional — a script completely void of bowls was created.
That which originally was the normal clumsy handwriting of a layman thus transformed into a pseudo-modern deconstructive typeface, which in the 21st century appears contemporary.
The capital letters especially reflect the original: in part they show forms labeled incorrectly ”old German“ handwriting, which is actually Latin, in the letters A D G I J K L S V W X Z , whereas C H N O P R appear very modern.
Truly a form of handwriting: without joining the letters, especially between the lower case characters, a silhouette effect is formed.
To a great extent »Hero« is impressive due to its driven-to-the-limit abstraction and to a lesser extent by retaining an antiquated and nearly illegible effect.
Hero
1 Font: Hero
File formats: OpenType-PS (.otf), OpenType-TT (.ttf), Webfonts
Language support:
Unicode Latin 1 (Western & Northern European languages);
Unicode Latin Extended A (Central and Eastern European languages, Turkish)