Forte, this lively and friendly typeface, has been used, abused and overused for over six decades since it was released by Monotype Corporation in 1962. Well-known figures from the world of typography such as Stanley Morison and Vincent Connare have been in the spotlight of this typeface's lively history. But the designer of the typeface, Karl Reißberger, remained little known. 

Until now.

My book sets out in search of “found objects” such as Reißberger’s early posters, original designs and advertising materials in order to trace the history of the creation of the “font that everyone knows”. Sixty years after Forte first appeared, it has been given a new lease of life as Toshi Omagari’s revised font, Forte Forward. It was released in 2022 together with the book.

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Casting of Forte with a Monotype Supra at the Offizin Haag-Drugulin printing house in Dresden

Studio SPIN (London)

studio VIE (Vienna): Happy birthday, Schatzi!

COOKIE : ARBEITERKIND Anagramming vacancy, Natalie Deewan, Rosensteingasse 46, Vienna

Participating Artists

Fons Hickmann (Berlin), Quim Marin (Barcelona), studio VIE (Vienna), Michael Endlicher (Vienna), Say Say Say, Inc. (Vienna / New York), Christian Ecker (Salzburg), buero bauer (Vienna), MOOI Design (Linz), SPIN (London), Stefan Ellmer (Oslo), Peter Daniel & Nicole Horn (Vienna / London), Tim Etchells (Sheffield), Tina Hochkogler (Vienna), Hedwig Rotter (Vienna), FabricFabrik (Vienna), LWZ (Vienna), Craig Winslow (Portland, ME), Adam G (Los Angeles, CA), Julian Montague (Buffalo, NY), Cihan Tamti (Bochum), Robert Stadler (Paris), Rüdiger Schlömer (Zurich), Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller (Vienna), Natalie Deewan (Vienna), Maria Auböck & János Kárász (Vienna), Nika Kupyrova (Vienna).