I have seen some Kleukens designs in “Hoffmanns Schriftatlas”. Maybe you will find something there?

I’ve seen copies of Hoffman’s book for sale in the USA, but the lowest price I have found is $65 US. However, there are two copies avaliable at Amazon.com’s German site for VERY LITTLE MONEY (one for less than €5, the other for €12), but amazon.de won’t ship to the USA (they most likely will ship to Sweden).

If you buy the book, then conclude your research and wish to sell it, let me know...

If you can move a bit in Germany, check Darmstadt… Some folks have a really impressive collection of Kleuken’s works.

Nick, when I was living in Baltimore, I ordered books directly from Amazon.de. Are you sure you can’t do it? You have to navigate through the language, and you have to pay shipping charges that (for me) ending up doubling the total price. But it worked.

In this PDF file on pages 8 and 9

see http://www.sanskritweb.net/fontdocs/stempel.pdf

I have depicted two samples of Ratio Latein drawn from a Stempel catalog dating back to the early 1950s. This catalog contains the complete typeface with Kursiv, Halbfette und Fette and with the complete character sets. I addition, I also have Ratio Latein samples from the later photo-composition era. However I have only a slow modem connection. Therefore I cannot upload high-resolution reproductions of these samples.

24 Euro plus shipping - is it too much?

Ratio-Latein. Halbfette Ratio-Latein. Kursive Ratio-Latein. Gezeichnet von Prof. F. W. Kleukens

http://cgi.zvab.com/SESSz211446805111161099305/cgi-bin/n_showitem.cgi?it...

Preußisches Bleisatz-Magazin

Thank you all! Especially you Uli! And if you should upgrade your modem or change your mind regarding the samples and/or send low-res – I would be more then delighted to grant you a copy when the work is completed.

Best regards
K.T.K Möller

Mr. K.T.K Möller:

I uploaded at

http://www.sanskritweb.net/temp/

these files:

ratio1a.gif + ratio1b.gif
ratio2a.gif + ratio2b.gif
ratio3a.gif + ratio3b.gif
ratio4a.gif + ratio4b.gif

and as goody ratio4c.gif

For download add file names to http address,
e.g. http://www.sanskritweb.net/temp/ratio4c.gif

The a files are hi-res, the b files are low-res

Uli

Thank you, thank you & thank you!
Here is a little work sample:

//K.T.K Möller

Mr. K.T.K Möller:

I should like to add that Ratio-Latein was usually used as slug casting font, not as hand-composition font. As a slug or line-casting font, Ratio-Latein had identical alphabet-lengths of Roman/Italic/Bold, the variation of stroke (contrast between upstrokes and downstrokes) was mininal, and kerns (of letter f etc.) did not exist.

http://www.sanskritweb.net/temp/ratio5a.gif

http://www.sanskritweb.net/temp/ratio5b.gif