Symphonie Font
Symphonie is a digitisation of a 1938 calligraphic script by German type designer and digital font archivist Peter Wiegel, whose CAT-Fonts project has spent decades preserving and reviving pre-digital lettering work that would otherwise be inaccessible to contemporary designers. The original design embodies what copperplate-influenced calligraphy was doing in 1930s European lettering culture — an era when the formalism of classical penmanship was being inflected with the slightly looser, more flowing qualities that art deco sensibility brought to decorative lettering, producing scripts that carry historical authority without the full rigidity of Victorian copper engraving.
Symphonie is an open-source digitisation of a 1938 calligraphic script in our free font collection — Wiegel’s careful revival of a flowing, copperplate-influenced hand that channels the elegant restraint of 1930s European formal lettering across 89 languages. Browse our full library of free fonts and discover more distinctive typefaces crafted by independent designers around the world.
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