Plantin vs Ehrhardt

Plantin is a serif typeface designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont and released by the Monotype Corporation in 1913. The design is a scholarly revival of 16th-century French Renaissance types originally used by the printer Christophe Plantin, whose artifacts are preserved in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Characterized by its tall x-height and clean legibility, the typeface became a foundationa...

Ehrhardt is a serif typeface produced by Monotype in 1938, based on historical types originally cut by the Hungarian punchcutter Miklós Kis in Amsterdam during the 1680s. The matrices for these old-style letters were later acquired by the Ehrhardt foundry in Leipzig, Germany, which gave the subsequent revivals their modern name. It features moderate thick-thin contrast, bracketed serifs, and a tra...