Mauritius

What is the Mauritius Font?

Ten years or so after his unique treatment of Garalde design with Trump Mediaeval, Georg Trump took on the transitional genre with Mauritius, which was to be his last typeface. He started working on it in 1965. The Stuttgart-based Weber foundry published a pamphlet previewing it under the name Barock-Antiqua in 1967, then announced the availability of the metal types (a roman, a bold and an italic) a year later. The global printing industry was already in third gear with cold type technology, so there weren’t that many takers, and Weber closed its doors after more than 140 years in business. Subsequently, Trump’s swan song was unfairly overlooked by typography historians and practitioners. It never made it to film technology or scalable fonts. Thus, one of the most original text faces ever made, done by one of the most influential German type designers of the 20th century, was buried under decades of multiple technology shifts and fading records.. The metal cuts of Mauritius seem to have been rushed in Weber’s desperation to stay afloat. So the only impressions left of the metal type, the sole records remaining of this design, show substantial problems. Some can be attributed to technological limitations, but some issues in colour, precision and fitting are also quite apparent, particularly in Mauritius Kursiv, the italic metal cut.. This digital version is the result of obsessing over a great designer’s final type design effort, and trying to understand the reasons behind its vanishing from typography’s collective mind. While that understanding remains for the most part elusive, the creative and technical work done on these fonts produced very concrete results. All the apparent issues in the metal types were resolved, the design was expanded into a larger amily of three weights and two widths, and plenty of 21st century bells and whistles were added.

Mauritius Font Families

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

• Mauritius Regular
• Mauritius Italic
• Mauritius Medium
• Mauritius Medium Italic
• Mauritius Bold
• Mauritius Bold Italic
• Mauritius Condensed Regular
• Mauritius Condensed Medium
• Mauritius Condensed Bold

Who Designed the Mauritius Font?

This font has 9 style(s) and was published by Canada Type.

Is Mauritius a Free Download?

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

Please do not try to find a free download of Mauritius. 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 Mauritius 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 Mauritius if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Mauritius to Buy?

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

The last time we checked the price for Mauritius, it was available for as little as $29.95.