Discus: A new Creation full of Action, Freshness and Elegance Typographics2023 Von Larisch and Koch certainly

Von Larisch and Koch certainly knew one another

the 1970 World Cup

(March Milligan)

but only movable type accelerated things (before computers and the Internet)

Discus: A new Creation full of Action, Freshness and Elegance Typographics2023 Von Larisch and Koch certainlyWhen one works on books about slabs, stencils, shadows, and scripts, one needs a lot of examples around. Like, when Louise Fili was working on Scripts, she picked up this specimen of Martin Wilkes Discus (1938) for Stempel. And now we must discuss the naming of Discus: It was originally called Diskus. A face worth spinning around and heaving as far as you can. From the collection of Louise Fili.