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Aurèle Sack

Aurèle Sack (b. 1977) is a globetrotting Swiss graphic designer specialized in type and editorial design. He focuses mainly on projects within the cultural field. After graduating from ECAL in 2004 (with a sans typeface called AS Gold) Sack worked in Zürich and New York. He currently lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been teaching type and editorial design at ECAL since 2010. He has won the Swiss Design Awards three times; in 2006, 2010 and 2014.

Codesigner in 2006 with Maxime Buechi of a corporate type for NORM called Rhodesia . In 2009, he made AS Garamond in collaboration with Jonas Voegeli, Zürich for Das Magazine. In 2008, Fleurie (typewriter face) was published. Around 2006, he created Omega Bold (a sans, done with Norm in Zürich; now called Omega CT), AS Turquoise, AS Yellow (a didone), Gallery, and LL Purple (Regular, Italic; a serif typeface published at Lineto and co-designed with Norm).

Initiated as a collaborative type design project by Zurich-based designers Urs Lehni and Lex Trüb, LL Brown (2011, Lineto) has been drawn and developed by Aurèle Sack in the geometric style of Edward Johnston's Johnston (1915) and Arno Drescher's Super Grotesk (1930). LL Brown is being re-launched in 2019 with additional weights, additional non-Latin scripts, and additional Narrow and Condensed cuts.

Finally, Sack published LL Grey (2004-2016) at Lineto.

Lineto link.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Garalde or Garamond typefaces ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿








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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