![Crossing linguistic borders: Roman Scherer’s typefaces conquered the world in the early 20th century.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-scherer-lettern-300x225.jpg)
World-famous typefaces from Kriens
Roman Scherer’s highly specialised factory in Kriens manufactured wood type for the whole world – including for Pravda, the official newspaper of Russia’s Communist party in Moscow.
![The marshalling yard in Kupferhammer, Kriens: the Scherer wood type factory was located just behind it. Photo circa 1920.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/fabrik-scherer-300x190.jpg)
![Typographic pioneer Roman Scherer.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/scherer-portrat-225x300.jpg)
![An insight into the production processes at a wood type factory: in 1913 the letters were made by hand.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/fabrik-1-300x192.jpg)
![Roman Scherer’s ‘Reform’ soon became the title font of the Russian daily Pravda.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/serie-5015-300x138.jpg)
![The first issue of the newspaper Pravda from May 1912.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/prawda-300x229.jpg)
![Death notice in the newspaper Der Bund dated 21 February 1922.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/todesanzeigen-207x300.jpg)
Film by the Letterform Archive in San Francisco on a catalogue from 1920. It provides a good insight into Roman Scherer’s wide range of different typefaces. Letterform Archive