Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke

Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878–1965) was a German graphical designer, typographer and illustrator.

Born in Inowrocław, Prussia (now Poland), Ehmcke was educated as a lithographer in Berlin during 1893–1897. In 1900, he was a co-founder of Steglitzer Werkstatt. From 1903, he taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf, from 1913 to 1938 in Munich, during 1920-1921 also in Zürich. During 1946 to 1948, he was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

He designed a number of typesets, notably Ehmcke-Antiqua and Ehmcke-Kursiv in 1909/10 (adopted for English-language typesetting by Stephenson Blake under the name Carlton).

Typesets

 * Ehmcke Antiqua (1908 Flinsch)
 * Ehmcke Kursiv (1910 Flinsch)
 * Ehmcke Fraktur (1912 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Rustika (1914 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Schwabacher (1914 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Schwabacher halbfett (1915 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Fraktur halbfett (1917 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Mediaeval (1922 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Mediaeval kursiv (1923 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Mediaeval halbfett (1924 D. Stempel AG)
 * Ehmcke Latein (1925 Ludwig & Mayer)
 * Ehmcke-Latein halbfett (1925 Ludwig & Mayer)
 * Ehmcke Brotschrift (1927 Rupprecht Presse)
 * Ehmcke Elzevir (1927 L. Wagner)
 * Ehmcke Elzevir kräftig (1930 L. Wagner)