In any international comparison, very few institutions can offer a comparable collection. Among the most precious of these are rare typesets such as Hieroglyphics, Chinese, Cuneiform, Runes and other non-latin and ancient alphabets.

Among the oldest is a font of matrices by the famous punch cutter Jakob Sabon of 1572, as well as an original cutting of an Old Schwabacher from the well-known type foundry of Johann Christoph Zanker in Nuremberg, Frankonia, which likewise stems from the middle of the 16th century.

We cast new metal type for hand composition from the old matrices on machines from companies such as Foucher, Paris, as well as Küstermann and Berthold, Berlin.