ABOUT WIEN

Wien is a typeface influenced by the Vienna Secession and the typographic forms that resulted from it in the early 20th century. The Vienna Secession (Sezessionstil or Wiener Secession in German) was an artistic movement that flourished in Austria, and more specifically in Vienna, between 1898 and 1910. Conventionally, the movement is associated with Art Nouveau and the Jugendstil, the vast revival of artistic forms that swept across the West at the end of the 19th century. The Vienna Secession nevertheless had its own characteristics, manifestos, exhibitions and artists, with Vienna at its centre, as well as Prague, Budapest and other cities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This style is characterised by organic forms, an abundance of curves, a strong relationship between text and image, and an absence of perspective and, with it, an absence of time. Secession and Jugendstil had their own typographic styles. most of the representative typefaces are defined by a calligraphic stroke and an organic, fluid appearance. The influence of Gothic typefaces is essential to the typography of this movement.

At the time, these fonts were considered unreadable (by a wide audience). The magazines Insel (1899) and Die Fläche (1903 and 1910) and Ver Sacrum (1898) played an essential role in the development and understanding of this new typographic genre. These magazines showcased very free designs, representative of the secessionist identity, offering completely new perspectives for the time in terms of type design, which Behrens, Leitcheront, Oswald, Roller and Moser for example highlighted in their creations of this period.

INFORMATIONS

Character set: Latin extended

File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Supported Languages:

Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Genoese, German, Gooniyandi, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Makhuwa, Malay, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni