Character Type – Deutscher Apotheker Verlag
Character Type – Deutscher Apotheker Verlag

Deutscher Apotheker Verlag

Deutscher Apotheker Verlag (DAV) is a family owned pharmaceutical publishing house based in Stuttgart/Germany and the parent company of the Deutscher Apotheker Verlag media group. Character Type created two typeface families Schmiedel Sans and Schmiedel Serif (named after the DAV founder) with an extensive glyph set covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek as well as the international phonetic alphabet. The typefaces are being used across all corporate communication as well as an ever growing number of publishing products from books, magazines to digital platforms.

Styles
Schmiedel Sans: Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic; Schmiedel Serif: Regular, Italic, Medium, Bold
Type Design and Type Direction: Henning Skibbe
Type Design: Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy, Anja Meiners
In partnership with Wessinger und Peng: Jakob Wessinger, Marlene Kehle
Image Credits: Character Type, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, Wessinger und Peng
Character Type – Deutscher Apotheker Verlag
Character Type – Deutscher Apotheker Verlag

The Deutsche Apothekerzeitung (DAZ) is an independent pharmaceutical journal for science and practice and is published weekly. Historically, the journal goes back to the Pharmaceutisches Wochenblatt from 1861. It was redesigned in 2025 by Wessinger und Peng including the new typefaces families.

DAV publishes not only magazines and hundreds of digital product but also comprehensive encyclopedias on multiple pharmaceutical topics. The international phonetic alphabet is needed for many of these.

Character Type – Deutscher Apotheker Verlag
Character Type – Deutscher Apotheker Verlag

The DAV character set for both Schmiedel Sans and Serif contains 830 glyphs and covers 200+ languages and contains Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts.