Walbaum最初是由Justus Erich Walbaum于1800年前后在Weimar制作的。它与Bodoni和Didot一起被评为欧洲最伟大的“现代”风格字体。现代风格字体标志着18世纪末和19世纪初排印发展到了鼎盛。它们的特征与之前的字体截然不同：如极端的垂直应力和精细的细线与大胆的主笔划形成鲜明对比。 这款当代版本的Walbaum字体与J. E. Walbaum的原创版本非常接近，它与其他现代字体的不同之处在于它有更宽的大写字母和更大的x字高。 个别字符也与其他现代字符完全不同，例如b没有字脚衬线，小写字母a的字怀近似方形，而大写字母Q的小尾巴具有奇怪的非对称接合点。 这款出色的字体家族清晰易读，灵活多变，在开放性和优雅性方面给人不可抗拒的温暖。这可能是现代字体风格中最独特的一款。
Walbaum was originally punchcut by Justus Erich Walbaum in Weimar around 1800. It ranks with Bodoni and Didot as one of the great European "modern" style typefaces. Modern types represented the ultimate typographic development of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They have characteristics quite different from the types that preceded them; such as extreme vertical stress and fine hairlines contrasted by bold main strokes. This contemporary version of the Walbaum font is quite authentically close to J. E. Walbaum's original, and it distinguishes itself from the other moderns with its wider caps and larger x-height. Some of the individual characters are quite different from other moderns as well, such as the b with no foot serif, the lowercase a with its squarish counter shape, and the Q tail with the curious asymmetric juncture. Possibly the most unique of the modern types, this beautiful family is legible, flexible, and has compelling warmth in its openness and grace."