Frommes Kalender
Artist
Koloman Moser
1868–1918. Painter, designer, Secession artist. Born in Vienna.
Moser helped found the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte. He designed furniture, glass, books and posters.
Frommes Kalender (1899) stacks FROMMES KALENDER in tall outlined capitals under a figure with an hourglass. The letters are built from repeated vertical strokes.
- Koloman Moser
- 1899
- Art Nouveau
- Austria
- Condensed sans, Display, Geometric sans
- A. Berger, Vienna
- Public-domain scan on Wikimedia Commons
- Commons Frommes Kalender, Moser 1899
- Wikimedia Commons
- Public domain
Fonts
Kalender Capitals
Letters from the poster
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Shop Capitals
Letters from the poster
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History
Fromme’s calendar was a Viennese publishing staple. Moser’s 1899 sheet is pure Secession: flat colour, a symbolic figure, and lettering treated as ornament that still reads as type.
The title capitals are extremely tall and built from parallel strokes. The shop line under them is a thicker geometric sans that swaps V for U.
The scan used here is a public-domain reproduction of Moser’s calendar sheet.
Source and rights
Koloman Moser died in 1918. His work entered the public domain on 1 January 1989. The scan is published as public domain on Wikimedia Commons.
Scan from Wikimedia Commons, catalogue record Commons Frommes Kalender, Moser 1899. Brand names on the poster belong to their owners and are never used as font names.
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