About a year ago, we purchased several new type cases. Some were filled with complete alphabets that we had specifically searched for – Fanfare and Plak in plenty of sizes – and others just contained bits and pieces or assorted faces. One of them consisted of merely ‘uvwxyz’, umlauts and an eszett, but just enough to reveal Karlgeorg Hoefer’s Monsun. The 8 Cicero letters are neither cast in metal, nor are they manufactured from wood, but from a plastic material.