ABC Litera

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ABC Litera [Roland Stieger] ABC Litera is the typefoundry in Sankt Gallen of Swiss type designers Jost Hochuli, Roland Stieger and Jonas Niedermann. Roland Stieger was born in Kobelwald. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the daily newspaper of Rheintal, Altstätten, he studied type design at CAS Type Design at the ZHDK. Creator of the sans typeface Alena, about which he writes: It all started with the woodcut from Jost Hochuli, published in the year 1980. I found this woodcupt in a bookshop around 1992 and was fascinated by it for many years. Until my interest in type design became so huge that I took it as a starting point to design an own typeface, a sans serif, called Alena, which builds on the shapes and proportions of this woodcut. Jost Hochuli is a book designer, successful author, and teacher. In 2011, he started work on the clean sans family Allegra. Nicolas (2012) is a new serif typeface by ABC Litera.	EXTERNAL LINKS ABC Litera [Buy fonts] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿