Frei Otto was still a student at the Technical University in Berlin in 1950 when he started to design his own typeface “Atelier Warmbronn”. The font’s organic, flowing lines reflect the sensuality and smoothness that so fascinated the design process of its designer – recalling the work of German anthroposophist and typographer Walther Roggenkamp who was similarly inspired by the interest in Rudolph Steiner at the time. When Otto founded his own studio in 1952, he decreed Atelier Warmbronn as the official typeface. This was at a time when all labelling was still prepared by hand, using stencils and fountain pens. The font was affectionately referred to by his colleagues as “Würmchenschrift” (“Worm Type”).
Over the years, different refinements of the typeface were used in books and for cover designs until, in the 1980s, Atelier Warmbronn was digitalised for computer use. From then on Otto even used it to type his letters. Throughout his entire life Otto remained surprisingly devoted to his strange, worm-like script. I (Franziska Stein)
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