Rudelsberg Alternate, digitized by Dieter Steffmann from Otto Eckmann's design, is a free Art Nouveau display font with sweeping, blade-like curves. Pointed tips keep the organic shapes slightly unruly.
Poster titles are its strongest role, especially for historical exhibitions, fantasy events, or music packaging built around turn-of-the-century ornament. In branding, the lettering can become part of an emblem itself, with its hooked contours supplying the product identity rather than acting as neutral text.
Copyright (c) Typographer Mediengestaltung, 2002. All rights reserved. Digitized and hinted by Dieter Steffmann, Kreuztal. Entworfen von Otto Eckmann um 1900 fuer die Rudhard'sche Giesserei in Offenbach am Main.