Elegant Grotesk

Jeez. Just look at that cover! Do we really need to write anything more about this? Talk about elegant! So how’s about we just copy the description of this face from Fonts in Use? They write:

Issued by Stempel as Elegant-Grotesk in three weights (mager, halbfett, fett) in 1928. A two-line open style (licht) was added in 1929, a normal in 1936, and two italic weights in 1938. Adopted for the Linotype. Bauer accused Stempel of plagiarizing their Futura. [Drama!] Stempel claimed the typeface was inspired by Möhring’s lettering for the cover of Gebrauchsgraphik 12/1926. Mager, normal, and halbfett came in two variants: series I has pointed spurs in ‘a b d g n’ etc., while series II shows more conventional rectangular shapes. Alternates: ‘J’ with/without top bar, two-story ‘a’. The latter is shown as default in series II.

Did you get all that? Anyway, a lovely thing showing a face we don’t see much of.