Alarm

What is the Alarm Font?

In the late 1920s the Trennert foundry in Hamburg-Altona, Germany, commissioned several fonts from freelancer Heinz König. His chunky, striking Alarm typeface and its blackletter-style companion, Wiking, are among the most remarkable display faces from that period, and were briefly quite successful across Germany. The 1928 Alarm was clearly designed to compete with Berthold’s successful Fanfare from the previous year, drawn by Louis Oppenheim, but different in every detail.. Alarm has never known a serious digital version, until Fust & Friends decided to have a go, after collecting vintage specimens of the face, and doing some test printings with an authentic 72pt-size metal version.. Fellow Berliner Andreas Seidel (of astype) did an exemplary job, homogenizing the character set without abandoning its quirkiness, expanding the character set with the usual contemporary symbols as well as diacritics for most languages that use the Latin alphabet, and adding mediaeval and tabular figures. An advertising classic is ready for a new life.

Alarm Font Families

When you download Alarm, the family will include the following font styles:

• Alarm Regular

Who Designed the Alarm Font?

Alarm was designed by Heinz Konig, Andreas Seidel.

This font has 1 style(s) and was published by Fust & Friends.

Is Alarm a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Alarm is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Alarm. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Alarm for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Alarm if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Alarm to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Alarm for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Alarm, it was available for as little as $29.00.