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Friedrich Peter

Designer, visual artist and calligrapher (b. 1933, Dresden, Germany) who moved to West Berlin in 1950, where he studied lettering design, painting, graphics, typography and calligraphy at the Academy of Visual Arts. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 with his wife, and started teaching in 1958 at the Vancouver School of Art, which later became the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and this until 1998. He has many designs for postage stamps, coins and medals in Canada between 1980 and 1998. He is an all-round artist who is also famous for his contributions to calligraphy. His typefaces:

• The formal script typeface Vivaldi (1966, VGC). This was later published by Letraset (1970). Other digital versions exist as well, including ones at ITC, Linotype, Elsner&Flake, Mecanorma, Agfa Monotype and URW. Vivaldi's designer is often incorrectly stated as Fritz Peters (such as by Phil's Fonts, Bowfin, Fontshop Austria, URW or Paratype). Cyrillic versions of Vivaldi exist. A free Cyrillic version is VivaldiD CL, by a certain "Paul".
• The ornamental Magnificat typeface (which was partially cut by Philip Kelly). Magnificat was digitized by Flanker (2011) and Studio Di Lena.

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