URW Grotesk was designed exclusively for URW by Prof. Hermann Zapf in 1985. At the same time, Zapf designed URW Antiqua to go with URW Grotesk. At that time, we were working with a large German publishing house (Axel Springer) on type design solutions to replace certain of their newspaper fonts.
Test pages of large German newspapers (e.g. Bildzeitung) were printed with URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua font families. For reasons not disclosed to us, the project was dropped and Springer never used URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua for that purpose.
Anyway, Zapf finished his designs and URW produced both families. More…
Designers: Hermann Zapf
Source: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/grotesk/
URW Grotesk ExtraLight
URW Grotesk ExtraLight Oblique
URW Grotesk Light
URW Grotesk SC Light
URW Grotesk Light Oblique
URW Grotesk Light Italic
URW Grotesk Regular
URW Grotesk SC Regular
URW Grotesk Oblique
URW Grotesk Italic
URW Grotesk Medium
URW Grotesk Medium Oblique
URW Grotesk Medium Italic
URW Grotesk Bold
URW Grotesk Bold Oblique
URW Grotesk Bold Italic
URW Grotesk Cond ExtraLight
URW Grotesk Cond Light
URW Grotesk Cond Bold
URW Grotesk ExtraNarrow ExtraLight
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