Stempel Schneidler

The face was expanded into digital in the early 1980s by the type foundry D. Stempel AG, and was renamed Stempel Schneidler. Four additional weights from light to black were added, and it is this version of the typeface that much of the world still uses today. It was later cloned by other foundries like URW, Bitstream, and Compugraphic. URW's version reverted to the name Schneidler Mediaeval. It also adds a set of small caps. Compugraphic's version is slightly taller. == Reception ==

Stempel Schneidler has been criticized by type and design historian Paul Shaw in his 2011 article "Flawed Typefaces". Shaw noted the design of the question mark was strange, as "it appears to be upside down". Shaw ultimately discusses the typeface's likability: "For those who like the typeface, the question mark is its flaw. But for those who dislike Schneidler—and there are reasons, ranging from its overtly cupped serifs to its capital O—the weird question mark is no big deal." In 2015, Rob Saunders, founder of the San Francisco-based graphic design museum Letterform Archive, gave a presentation at The Cooper Union on the life of Ernst Schneidler and said of the typeface: "It's a beautiful thing. I always say if I'm ever tempted to use Souvenir, I'll use this instead. It has a little bit of that fullness and simple structure, but it's just so much more graceful." == References ==