Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Henriette is a new, historically-influenced serif type­face by Typejockeys. Here’s a bit of info about its ori­gin:
In the 1920s the Viennese gov­ern­ment decided to stan­dard­ize the street signs across the city. A type­face was espe­cially con­structed for the pur­pose. It was avail­able in a Heavy and a Bold Condensed ver­sion, to sup­port short street names as well as longer ones. As the years went by, the type­face was adopted and redrawn by sev­eral enamel fac­to­ries. These adap­ta­tions lead to vari­a­tions on the design, and to the fact that there isn’t a Viennese street sign font but 16 — in part severely — dif­fer­ent ver­sions. Henriette is not a dig­i­ti­za­tion of any of those ver­sions; rather, it is influ­enced by all of them. The italic ver­sions are com­pletely orig­i­nal and designed to accom­pany the Roman.

Pick it up at MyFonts.