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WHAT WE DO
BAUER TYPES TODAY
We do typography. From the creation to the distribution and implementation of digital fonts, offering a global typographic service, always prioritizing the relationship with our clients and thus providing a unique added value.
COPYRIGHT
PRODUCTION
We not only bring the classics into the digital era, but also, offer a mediterranean alternative to mainstream design fonts. This is our brand, Neufville Digital.
TYPOGRAPHY
We represent the most prestigious font production companies, small, innovative, big or traditional, we aim to offer our clients the best quality type.
EVENTS
We aim to transmit our accumulated knowledge by offering masterclasses, events, webinars, and personalised courses for companies, studios, agencies and schools.
OUR HISTORY
“AN ENTIRE LIFE DEVOTED TO TYPOGRAPHY”
Bauer Types, SL is the successor of two well-known type foundries of the twentieth century: Bauersche Giesserei in Frankfurt / Main – Germany (1837 – 1972) and Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, SA in Barcelona-Spain (1885-1995). Both companies made history in type casting over more than 170 years.
GEORG HARTMANN
Was the owner of Bauersche Giesserei in Germany and Neufville in Spain. Under his leadership, internationally renowned artists contributed with their creations to the success of typefaces which still enjoy great popularity in the new digital era: Futura, Bauer Bodoni, Weiss…
GEORG HARTMANN (1870 – 1954)
In 1898 Georg Hartmann (1870-1954) bought Bauersche Giesserei in Frankfurt / Main – Germany (1837 – 1972) and Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, SA in Barcelona-Spain (1885-1995). Under his leadership, internationally renowned artists contributed with their creations to the success of typefaces which still enjoy great popularity in the new digital era. These artists are, among others, E.R.Weiss, Ernst Schneidler, Lucian Bernhard, Elizabeth Friedlaender, Heinrich Jost, Imre Reiner, Oldrit Menhart and Paul Renner, the latter author of Futura.
In 1927 Georg Hartmann decided to open a branch office in New York, the Bauer Type Foundry, later converted into Bauer Alphabets. For over five decades they introduced as prestigious typefaces as Bauer Bodoni, Weiss, Venus, Beton, Futura and many others into the US Market. Two American designers, Howard A. Trafton and William Gillies also created types of Bauer.
CARLOS HARTMANN
Took over the ownership of Fundición Tipográfica Neufville SA in 1922. This company not only was the leading type foundry in Spain, but also supplied machines for the Printing Industry, such as Heidelberg, Roland, Koenig & Bauer, Krause, Hoh & Hahne, Goebel…
CARLOS HARTMANN (1899-1950)
After Georg Hartmann died in 1954, Dr Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum designed Folio, Imprimatur and Volta (Fortune), just as Adrian Frutiger did in 1966 with Serifa.
Carlos Hartmann (1899-1950), son of Georg, took over the ownership of Fundición Tipográfica Neufville SA in 1922. This company not only was the leading type foundry in Spain, but also supplied machines for the Printing Industry, such as Heidelberg, Roland, Koenig & Bauer, Krause, Hoh & Hahne, Goebel, etc.
WOLFGANG HARTMANN
Took over the management of Fundición Tipográfica Neufville SA in 1936 which then became Bauer Types, the only type company in the world capable of moving from the Lead to the Digital era.
WOLFGANG HARTMANN
In 1963, Wolfgang Hartmann (1936), son of Carlos, took over the direction of the type department of Fundición Tipográfica Neufville SA, after having worked for 5 years in Bauersche Giesserei.
As new technologies evolved, Neufville was able to maintain the manufacturing of types by acquiring several European type foundries, as Fundición Tipográfica Nacional (1971), Bauersche Giesserei (1972), Fonderie Typographique Française (1974), Lettergieterij Amsterdam (1984), Ludwig & Mayer (1985) and finally Les Fonderies Réunies de Caractères du Liban (1988).
In 1974 a branch office was opened in France, Neufville France. This company supplied foundry types to France and to Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
VIVIAN HARTMANN
She rejoins Bauer Types in 2021 with the vision of positioning the company as a national leader for typography and a clear mission of service and typographic excellence.
VIVIAN HARTMANN
In the year 2000 Vivian (4th generation of the family business), Wolfgang's daughter, joined Bauertypes and developed the sale of digital fonts in Spain, produced by international typeface manufacturers such as Monotype, Linotype, FontBureau, FontShop, House Industries and many others. After a 5-year hiatus from the academic world, she decided to rejoin the company in 2021, with the vision of positioning the company as a national benchmark in typography and a clear mission of service and typographic excellence.
Due to her extensive experience and knowledge of the business sector, she is firmly committed to creating a distinctive value for clients through typography as a sign of identity and offering solutions for all their technical and linguistic needs, in order to choose and implement them correctly, both in physical and digital media.
NEUFVILLE DIGITAL
Our typeface factory
Neufville Digital is a joint venture between Bauer Types SL, a Spanish company which succeeds Bauersche Giesserei and Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, and Visualogik, a Dutch-French company.
Neufville Digital takes advantage of the high professional skills of Visualogik in producing fonts which ensure great quality and reliability. Meanwhile Bauer Types SL offers a long experience in technical and professional delivery, and gives part of its typographic catalog to replicate the designs, ensuring their total reliability.
Our Collections
BAUER CLASSICS
Typefaces produced by Bauersche Giesserei and Fundición Tipográfica Neufville like the famous Futura or the elegance and beauty of Elizabeth.
MODERN COLLECTION
Our latest collection, with a wide variety of type styles, offering the most complete font families like Pragma, Andralis and Fontana.
GRAFÍA LATINA
Specific style of typefaces based on Mediterranean culture, such us Paris, Ilerda, Flash from Enric Crous-Vial or Sully-Jonquières and Pascal from José Mendoza.