HGB is Helmut G. Bomm's design studio in Backnang. Bomm was born in 1948 in Backnang, Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart-based type designer who publishes his type designs with Linotype and URW++.

Catalog of some of his typefaces. These include Linotype Nautilus (1999, humanistic sans), Linotype Humanistika (1997), Linotype Invasion (2002), Linotype Invasion Animals (2002), Linotype Männeken Outline and Black (2002, funny guys, part of TakeType 4), Legal (2004, a 6-weight sans family that grew out of his HGB Grotesk which he made in the 1970s), Linotype Scott Venus (1999), Linotype Scott Mars (1999, the latter two are alien script-like faces). At URW++, he made HGB Lombardisch (2008, an uncial), Klassika (2004, a sans family with a nice 3d version, Klassika Bronze; probably the same as HGB Klassika), Rotata Mysticons (2004), Baldur Seventy (2004), Rotate Klassik (2004), Rotate Modern (2004), Rotate Nouveau (2004), Bommi Carbon, Jazz Ragtime, Solo Mita, Solo Data, Bommi Oxygen, HGB Grotesk (2005, geometrical sans family), Schillerplatz (2008, URW++: a condensed didone face), Joga (2008, URW++: a stylish theatre headline face, art deco), Linotype Nautilus Text and Nautilus Monoline Text (2009), Neudoerffer Fraktur (2009, Linotype). Runs a graphics studio in Backnang. Exposition of his work in 2004 (site includes a bio).

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Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ 3D fonts ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿ Lombardic types ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿

Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html