Bernie
A soft-serif revival dormant since the 1970s
Bernie is a soft-serif typeface designed by Laurenz Brunner and Stefan Fitze, released by Source Type in 2025. It is intended for both display and text settings, with crafted curves as its defining formal trait. The design places itself within a lineage of soft serifs tracing to Lucian Bernhard's 1920s German poster lettering, through American successors such as Cooper Black, Windsor, and American Typewriter — a style largely dormant since the 1970s.
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- The soft-serif tradition is traced directly to Lucian Bernhard's bold 1920s poster lettering, giving Bernie a documented historical anchor.
- The genre's transatlantic migration produced Cooper Black, Windsor, and American Typewriter — the explicit reference points cited for Bernie's design lineage.
- Brunner and Fitze position the revival as a deliberate gap-fill: few soft-serif releases have appeared since the 1970s.
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