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Karl-Heinz Lange
Designer (b. 1929, Riesenkirch, d. 2010) at Typoart of these faces: - Publika: a sans typeface developed between 1981 and 1983---this must have been one of the last big East German faces.... It obtained a silver medal at the Bienale of Graphic Design Brno 1984.
- Primus (a 1962 workhorse family for the magazines in the DDR), Magna (a DDR magazine text typeface from 1968) and Typoart Super Grotesk. These metal faces were adapted for Phototype by Lange.
- Minima (1984): a narrow sans designed for the DDR's telephone directory.
From 2006 until 2009, Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake helped Lange with his new script typeface Viabella. Earlier, Elsner and Flake published Lange's Rotola (1985/2007). At the end of his life, Lange had a fruitful cooperation with Primetype. His old faces were revived in 2009 with the help of Ole Schäfer as Publicala [PTL Publicala has 60 faces], Minimala [PTL Minimala is a family of 96 fonts from Primetype, designed by Karl-Heinz Lange and Ole Schäfer] and Superla [PTL Superla has 64 styles in the geometric/Futura genre]. Obituary (in German) by Ivo Grabowitsch. Pictures: at the piano, frontal, at the computer.
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