ABC Walter is a long-standing, joint scholarly effort by Dinamo and Omnigroup: It comprises of Walter Alte and Walter Neue, two related yet ideologically opposed families celebrating an author and design educator with fingerprints all over Switzerland’s most famous fonts.
This has been a new kind of revival project for us, one that’s not based on a pre-existing typeface. Instead, our point of departure has been a tool used to teach students how to draw letterforms, designed by type educator Walter Käch in the mid-twentieth century. The triple styles of Walter Alte are a faithful study of Käch’s lessons, while Walter Neue is an extension, update, and digitally-minded interpretation.
Walter Alte consists of three faithfully revived cuts: Walter Alte Röntgentherapie has the highest contrast, while Walter Alte Normalgrotesk is the most constructed and mono-linear. Walter Alte Rauchwaren is smoother and slimmer, sitting in-between the first two stylistically, and recalling the way it once...
