Polish graphic artist, printer, illustrator and a type designer (b. 1881, Warszaw, d. 1952, Krakow). He studied at the Art Academies of Krakow, München, Leipzig and Berlin, and became art director from 1912-1927 in Warszaw at the Zaklady Graficzne B. Wierzbicki i S-ka. From 1927-1930, he was technical head at a printshop in Warszaw. From 1930 on, he edited the magazine Grafika in Warszaw with F. Siedlecki and T. Gronowski. From 1922-1939, he taught graphical and print techniques at the High School for Journalism in Warszaw. He ran his own print shop, Jednosc, in Kielce from 1945-1949. He designed fonts that were widely used by Polish printing houses until the 1960s. His main type family, Poltawskiego (1931) was the first original Polish type family. It was digitally recreated by Bogusaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk (JNS TEAM) in 2000 under the name Antykwa Pó&lslash;tawskiego starting mainly from MetaPost. It has also been digitized/revived by Felix Steffen. Twardoch's description of his contributions. Klingspor link.

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Metafont links ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ The Polish type scene ⦿

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