Titling caps were released first, and the Monotype Recorder of summer 1935 presented the capitals as an advance showing. It is available in light and italic varieties. Eventually a lowercase roman was added, and later a strongly cursive, narrow italic. Wolpe studied as a metal engraver, and Albertus was modelled to resemble letters carved into bronze. Wolpe named the font after Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth-century German philosopher and theologian.
Albertus is a glyphic serif display typeface designed by Berthold Wolpe in the period 1932 to 1940 for the British branch of the printing company Monotype.
