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November 13, 2026

Proof of Words releases Dumbria, a wood-type grotesque by Reymund Schröder

Released in October, PoW Dumbria is a crude advertising grotesque with concave terminals, designed by Reymund Schröder in 2016 and based on a wood type made by Sach & Co. in Mannheim in the late 19th century. Produced by Léo Guibert and Fanny Hamelin, it comes in five weights from Regular to Black, with alternates, square dots and stacked fractions; demo fonts are free to download.

Our take

a historically grounded oddball: the concave terminals give it bite at poster sizes, though with five bold-leaning weights and no italics it is strictly a display face.

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