TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Thu Mar 14 11:01:26 EDT 2024

SEARCH THIS SITE:

IMAGE SEARCH:

FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE

LUC DEVROYE


ABOUT







Karel Svolinsky

Type designer, book illustrator, painter and graphic designer, b. 1896, Heiligenberg bei Olmütz, d. 1986, Prague. Graduate of the Hochschule für Kunsthandwerk in Prague. Later he taught at this school.

In 1925, he created Svolinsky Antiqua which was used in K.H. Macha's book May. One size was cast by the Prague printing house Prumyslova Tiskarna. This high-contrast display typeface borrows ideas from the didones. Wenceslas Script was published in 1933 by Monotype. Finally, the also made an unpublished Grotesk in 1943.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Karel Svolinsky
Klingspor Museum page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Czechia ⦿








file name: Karel Svolinsky Grotesk 1943


file name: Karel Svolinsky Svolinsky Antiqua 1925


file name: Karel Svolinsky Wenceslas Script 1933


file name: Karel Svolinsky Pic







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