Bas Jacobs

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Bas Jacobs Cofounder of Underware (b. Wanssum, The Netherlands, 1976), a typographic design studio based in Den Haag, founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling and Bas Jacobs. Bas lives in Amsterdam since 2001. He studied at the KABK in Den Haag. Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling designed Dolly (2001), a 4-font book typeface with flourishes. The Bukvaraz 2001 award they won for it mentions that Lars de Beer and Sami Kortemäki also had a hand in the font. Dolly A Book Typeface with Flourishes is also a book. Bas also codesigned the other Underware fonts after Doly: Bello, Sauna (2002; +Sauna Mono Pro), Liza (2009), Auto (1, 2 and 3) (2004-2014), Unibody 8 (free) and Fakir. In 2015, Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling and Sami Kortemäki published the stencil family Tripper. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about education in type design. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Bas Jacobs [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿

file name: Underware Mr Porter

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file name: Underware Custom Types

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file name: Bas Jacobs Akiem Helmling Sami Kortemaki Auto Pro Bold 2004 2014

file name: Bas Jacobs Akiem Helmling Sami Kortemaki Tripper 2015

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file name: Underware Unibody9 Pro Bold 2003

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file name: Bas Jacobs Akiem Helmling Sami Kortemaki Sauna Mono Pro Bold 2009

file name: Underware Suunto

file name: Underware Suunto

file name: Underware Suunto

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file name: Underware Ulrika

file name: Underware Liza 2009 Poster by Mihael Miklosic Liza 2014

file name: Underware Liza Caps Pro 2009

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