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123 Buero
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Original typefaces made in 2001: 2TheLeftDingbats, 3t (pixel font), DepthChargeSemiPhat, HKIMetropol, HKINightlife, LeftOvers, LeftOvers2, LeftOvers3, LeftOvers4, LeftOvers5, LeftOvers6, LeftOversII2, MrQuicke (nice futuristic font), Optimal (like Bank Gothic), Switzerland, YUMYUM, LeftOversII, LeftOversII31, Punavuori (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ABC Litera
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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 face 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. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss type technology expert of Russian origin. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Church Slavonic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adrian Frutiger
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Designer in Zurich. Creator of the custom typeface Val Mustair (2010), a stitch font: The shape of the font is inspired by the local handwork while the color system is a visualization of the sunrise and sunset and represents the rhythm of life in the valley. Award: ADC Nachwuchswettbewerb 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Affolter und Gschwind AG
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Some examples of the types shown, in alphabetical order: Antique Wood MP363 (art nouveau), Antique Wood MP 364 (oriental simulation face) [the Antique Wood series is quite extensive, and is just numbered], B+T Classic (roman), Bernhard Fett, Beton Fine Line (typewriter), Burko (avant garde family), fonts starting with G, Gaston Fett (a squarish gothic face also called Gipsy), Gaston Halbfett (also called Grassy), Gemini Computer, Germanic Sans (more avant garde and Lubalin-style glyphs), Hollandse Mediaeval, Hollywood (a 3d decorative family), typefaces starting with K, Lineamarca (slabby), Linear (avant garde, geometric monoline), Melen (experimental, geometric), Meola Bookman swash (decorative), Metro (art nouveau, after the Metroploitaine font), Moraine (squarish), the Old Foundry sub-collection [another mysterious numbered collection; examples include some uncials, and some more art nouveau faces, some Victorian ornamental faces (F260 through F262), more art nouveau (MP418 through MP420) and blackletter faces (MP421)], Pierrot (psychedelic, groovy), Phydian (one of many Western style ornamental faces0, Ronda, Roulette, Roulette Schattiert (=Rajah) (more Western fare), Ruby (shaded caps), Runic Small (condensed), Rustic (wood log look), typefaces starting with S, Spengler Gothik, St. Clair (ornamental), Zither (calligraphic script). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Agenturtschi
| Ralf Turtschi's Swiss site that specializes in type publications. A must-buy book for type classification: Schrift vergleichen, Schrift auswählen, Schrift erkennen, Schrift finden (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 1991): 430 pages! Author of TypoTuning (2006) and of Praktische Typografie (1999, Verlag Niggli AG). In 2004, Anatina Blaser made a handwritten style font called Rooster (after Peter Rooster's handwriting), which can be had for free with any order over 59 dollars. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nice list of German language books on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontNest (Switzerland) who made the lively pixel face Wellkrau (2010) with Jerome Rigaud and Pierre Terrier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ala webstatt
| Digital media firm and pixel font site. You can buy the pixelfonts Baby and Screenie-Folio here. Alexandra Rimaldi and René Etienne Keller run this site. Keller teaches Screendesign at The Fachschule für Gestaltung (HFG) in St.Gallen, Switzerland. I guess, but am not sure, that Keller made the fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Zurich-based creator of an experimental squarish 3d typeface (2013), tentatively called 360 Degrees. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Originally from Zürich, he is currently studying graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Creator of the playful slab face Albina Medium (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer, b. Luzern, 1930, d. Vernazza, 1974. He designed Pointille (1975, VGC), Siris (Hollenstein Phototypo, 1972), Tivi (Hollenstein Phototypo, 1968), Brasilia (ABM Hollenstein, 1960, with Albert Boton), Primavera (ABM Hollenstein, 1963, with Albert Boton), Rialto (ABM Hollenstein, 1960, with Albert Boton). With Albert Boton, he designed ITC Eras. Catalog of the serif faces at Hollenstein Phototypo. Hommage by Peter Gabor. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Some typefaces were influenced by Giacometti's art:
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Alessandro Volz
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Type designer living and working in Zurich, Switzerland, b. 1971, Männedorf. Alex Meier started out as a multimedia designer. From 2004 to 2006, he he studied typography. He studied type design (CAS Typedesign) at ZHdK in Zurich, where he graduated in 2008. After graduation, he started sharing a studio with his former fellow student Dominique Kerber. Creator of Minora (2011), an organic contemporary sans family. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Geneva-based designer who also does some type design. He is working on Rotative Mono (2012). He created the sans and mono family Rational (2012) in eight cuts. He also did the identity of Fonderie Kugler (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexander Aeschbach
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Alexander Meyer
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Swiss graphic and type designer who lives in Duebendorf but was born in Arbon in 1982. In 2008, he graduated in Visual Communication from the School of Art and Design Zürich.He created the didone typeface Quick Black (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Altgriechische Zeichensätze
| Lucius Hartmann (Hinwil, Switzerland) at the University of Zürich lists the main fonts that are useful to classicists and users of old Greek. Downloadable fonts include Aisa Unicode (by Hildegund Mueller&Stefan Hagel, 1997-1998). Hartmann himself created Sappho (2002) and Alkaios (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Partner with Dario Hofstetter at Monom in Switzerland. Together, they designed 100 pixel and experimental fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
amb+
| André Baldinger is the Swiss typographer and type designer (b. 1963) who made the Newut (1996, all letters of equal size, and thus a semi-unicase) and the B-Dot (pixel) families (1998). His outfit in Lausanne is called amb+. In 1994, he graduated from the Atélier National de Création Typographique (ANCT) in Paris. Since 1995, he teaches typography at the École supérieure d'arts visuels de Lausanne. He lives in Paris. Together with Philippe Millot, he heads the type design unit of the Creation and Innovation Research Centre (EnsadLab) at ENSAD Paris. He teaches typography and type design at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He was involved in projects such as the logotype for the Cité Universitaire and a custom type for the Eiffel tower. He also digitized the Frutiger-Hunziker typeface CGP (used in the Centre Georges Pompidou, originally designed in 1974) in 1997. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin where he introduced the Gering project. I cite: Based on a close analysis of typefaces created by Ulrich Gering at the Atelier de la Sorbonne and the Soleil d'Or workshop in the 1470s, the first typefaces produced in France, postgraduate students Timm Borg, Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon have been working on a versatile, modern font family for the last 2 years under the the guidance and watchful eyes of André Baldinger and Philippe Millot. Focusing on two of Gering's designs --- a sturdy roman font that closely imitates the texture of blackletter and a roman with blackletter influences --- the EnsadLab team has developed a complete family, reviving the work of the father of the printed word in France and bringing together aesthetics rarely seen in such an ensemble. Working only a few hundred metres from the original site of Gering's workshop they have thoroughly reworked the letterforms found in the extant incunabula available in the Bibliothèque Nationale, complementing the original characters with italics, small caps, and supplementary weights, as well as all of the glyphs necessary in a 21st century font. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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The studio is run by Jean-Benoît Lévy (b. 1959, Pully, Switzerland). Lévy is a visual communicator who has been active since 1983 in Switzerland. After his studies at the Basel School of Design with teachers such as Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann, he opened his studio AND in 1987. Jean-Benoit received his green card in 2001 and is now sharing his time between United States and Europe. He designs logos, corporate identities, postage stamps, coins, posters, and books. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Coauthor with André Gürtler of Die Handschrift, Comedia, edition 02-4, 2002. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
André Baldinger
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About Unica, Hrant Papazian writes: Unica is amazing. The only grot I like - although some people don't think it's a grot - which would explain my attraction! It avoids both the sterility of Univers and the... well, idiocy, of Helvetica. [...] art of it is Gurtler's mystique. Another is the amazing "rationalization" exercise Team 77 carried out in making it (elaborated just as amazingly in a small publication I have a copy of). I guess the main reason I can cling to is that it's not "naive". Most old grots (like Akzidenz) are like backwards villagers to me, and new grots (like FF Bau) are urbanites pretending to be villagers. In comparison, Unica is like an urbanite who has had to move in with his villager in-laws, but has decided to make the best of it. On the other hand, I suspect this is exactly why some people think Unica is not in fact a grot - it's a geo in grot's clothing. Stephen Coles writes: Scangraphics Digital Type Collection (which included Haas Unica) was purchased by Elsner + Flake in 2003, to which they added font-specific Euro and @ symbols in 2004. The revamped typeface was set to be sold by Scangraphic and its distributors, but Linotype is currently preventing the release, citing trademark violations. Although similarities to other typefaces often occur between foundries, it is rare that one finds typefaces that have been shelved indefinitely due to such resemblances. In truth, the real problem lies within a dispute over who owns the name Haas Unica, rather than any resemblance infringment. Haas Unica is commercially unavailable thanks to Linotype and Scangraphic. Linotype especially stands to lose a lot of Helvetica money if it ever appears. Michael Hernan digitized Unica Deux in 2006. PDF of Unica. The Ministry of Type calls it the ultimate archetypal sans serif face. Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas A. Lorenz
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German-Swiss typographer. With Julien Saurin, she published the classic avant-gardist hand-drawn typeface Paris (2012, La Goupil). It comes with art nouveau ornaments called Paris Serif Ornaments. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at burodestruct in Bern of the gorgeous font BD GalaQuadra (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Product designer in Zurich. Creator at FontStruct (where she is known as Bananna) of the stitching font Stich Miss (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the handprinted face Rooster (2004, Agenturtschi, Switzerland), which can be had for free with any order over 59 dollars from Agenturtschi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of "Le maître de Garamond" (Editions Stock, 2002), a beautiful book on the life and death of Antoine Augereau, who was Claude Garamond's teacher and mentor. Anne Cuneo was born in 1936 in Italy and lives in Zürich. Comment by Guy Schockaert: Le 24 décembre 1534, place Maubert, accusé d'hérésie, Antoine Augereau est pendu, son corps et ses mains brûlées. Homme de lettres, érudit, théologien, Antoine Augereau était un grand imprimeur, éditeur et graveur de caractères typographiques. Il modela ceux dont nous nous servons encore aujourd'hui, et avec Clément Marot, inventa l'usage des accents et de la cédille. La publication du Miroir de l'âme de Marguerite de Navarre lui coûtera la vie. La Sorbonne, gardienne jalouse d'une orthodoxie figée, désapprouve la pensée de la soeur de François Ier, mais ne peut la condamner. Antoine Augereau paiera pour elle. Racontée par le plus célèbre de ses disciples, l'histoire passionnante et émouvante d'un humaniste prêt à mourir pour défendre ses idées. UN livre à lire absolument et à offrir. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss-born type designer Annik Troxler created the travel dingbat font Traffic (2002, Niklaus Troxler). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anton Koovit
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Anton Koovit was born in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1981, and studied graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, ESAG Paris and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006, he obtained a masters in type design at KABK in Den Haag. Anton set up his own company Khork OÜ in 2006. In 2007 he moved to Berlin, Germany. He is "extraordinary assistant professor" of typography/type design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2012, he and Yassin Baggar set up Fatype, a type foundry in Berlin and Neuchatel, Switzerland. His most well known typeface design is Adam BP (2007, B&P Foundry), a 4-weight sans family. He also designed Aleksei (2010, unreleased serif face), GQ Slab, GQ Baton (b Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar), U8 (2010: a grotesk family based on lettering in the Berlin underground), Arvo (2010: a free slab serif family at Google Font Directory, codesigned with Yassin Baggar). Experimental faces by him include Kork Sausage, Boudo (collage alphabet), Planton, Velo (geometric). Allan (2010) and Arvo are free at the Google Directory. Fontsquirrel link. Behance link for Fatype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anton Studer
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Apsara Flury is a student at the School of Graphic Design in Luzern, Switzerland, where she created a grotesk typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arial: ein Nekrolog
| German article by Ralf Turtschi (Swiss, b. 1955) on the history of Arial from its genesis in 1982 as a Helvetica "clone" to its present status as most-used font. Ralf goes on to warn his readers that Microsoft is repeating history by pushing, very soon, its own Segoe, a Frutiger clone. Notable German quotes in which he performs a damning autopsy on Arial: Die Arial ist weder als Textschrift noch als Headlineschrift zu empfehlen, da fehlt einiges an Klasse. [...] Eine unausgeglichene Laufweite, also die Proportionen und der Abstand zwischen den Zeichen, gibt der Arial einem miserablen Grauwert. Das Verhältnis von schwarzen Linien und weissen Flächen lässt sie plump und charakterlos auf dem Papier kleben. Besonders hässlich sind die angeschrägten Endstriche bei a, e, s und t. Die Proportionen und die Form des t sind eine Zumutung und das a sieht wie nach einem Hagelschlag verformt aus. [...] Die Arial ist lieblos, unausgeglichen und verbeult, sie hat mir noch nie Freude bereitet. About the Segoe drama (Trauerspiel), he writes: Die Geschichte wiederholt sich hier, Die Segoe atmet den Geist der Frutiger von Adrian Frutiger, die sich in den 80er-Jahren zur Alternative der viel benutzten Helvetica anbot. Hier springt Microsoft 20 Jahre zu spät dem vermeintlichen Lifestyle nach, und statt eine eigenständige Schrift zu entwickeln, kupfert die Branchenführerin eine der erfolgreichsten und schönsten Schriften ab. Man könnte ja auch eine bestehende Schrift ordentlich lizenzieren. Ein Trauerspiel. So, why did Microsoft not properly license Frutiger from the man himself? After Adobe had to rip off Frutiger with its Myriad, now Microsoft joins the corporate theft business. Why not reward type designers properly? Fontshop joined Turtschi in his analysis. See also this brilliant piece by Fred Nader from 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss designer and photographer, b. 1919, Baar, d. 1991, Oberwil. He studied typography in Zug, and photography from 1941-1943 first at Ecole Photographique de la Suisse Romande in Lausanne and then at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. He was mainly into photojournalism from 1950-1957. Codesigner with Walter Haettenschweiler of the famous condensed headline typeface Haettenschweiler (1954). This font was added to the standard Microsoft font library in 1995 and is sold by Ascender. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Legendary Swiss type teacher at the Design Institute of Basel. His output includes many fantastic typographic posters. Example. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artoftype
| Artoftype in Zürich is run by Swiss typographer Markus Ernst, b. 1966. Designer at URW of Deepspace (2002, writing that aliens would use?), Sepultura (2003, gravestone writing?), Courier-Variationen. Free fonts for Mac and PC: Screenhorn (pixel font), 1873 (erosion font, 2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Atelier Bubentraum
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His typeface Rekja (2011) won an award at TDC 2012. For Neo2 magazine, he designed the (free) experimental paper-fold font The Folded Font (2008). Other typefaces: Frank (2007, a commercial grotesque blackletter sold by Die Gestalten Verlag), Motion (2008, experimental), Hausbau (2008, free, experimental), Minimeter (2008, free ruler-themed font, for Neo2), Archiv (2008-2010), Goodbye (2009). Together with Clovis Valois, he set up Nouvelle Noire in 2012 in Zurich. At Nouvelle Noire, he published Rekja (2011) and Medien (2011). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Atelier Carvalho Bernau
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Kai Bernau (b. 1978) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwabisch Gmünd in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands, where he graduated from the Design & Typography course of the KABK in The Hague in 2005 with his successful Neutral Typeface project. He continued in the KABK's Type and Media Master course where he graduated in 2006. Kai teaches type design in the Master in Art Direction program at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, which is based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Typefaces:
Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Attak Fonts
| Attak is a two-headed graphic design firm formed in 2004 by Peter Korsman and Casper Herselman. It is based in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. They have some free and some commercial typefaces. Behance link. Their fonts, ca. 2009: AT AK-47, AT Babyfat, AT Blaser, AT Concours, AT Dienstuhr, AT Discipline, AT FFW, AT Helix, AT Hide and Seek, AT Hieronymus, AT Janus Kiep, AT Kerremus, AT Klaxon, AT Korsakopf, AT Litewriter, AT Mepper, AT Mohawk, AT Moker, AT Monoload, AT Muntel, AT Peetroleum, AT Praktikum, AT Promille, AT Ramseier, AT Riot, AT Sirca, AT Sirca alternate, AT Slyper, AT Snotnose, AT Streeep, AT Tabak, AT T'Atteljeej, AT TCB, AT Timeline, AT Trash Bold, AT Willi, AT With Machines, AT Zippora. Notable products: AK-47 simulates Cyrillic; Helix is a stencil face; Muntel and Concours are fat art deco faces; Practicum and Tabak are octagonal; Riot leaks blood; Sirca is based on arcs of circles; Streep is a multiline font. I presume that Peter is the main font designer in the team, as he already made fonts as early as 2003 for Burodestruct (see, e.g., BD Burner, BD El Max, BD Sirca, and BD Bardust, downloadable here). A more detailed breakdown per designer:
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Swiss designer (b. Lausanne, 1902, d. 1955), who worked for Hoffmann-LaRoche before he went to work at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928. The URW font family Theo Ballmer (2000) is based on his ideas, and was digitized by Theo's grandson Thierry Ballmer. The family has many typical Bauhaus ingredients. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss graphic designer who studied at the Haute École d'Art et de Design in Genève. Aurélien created a sketched typeface in 2012: Annual report for the Parisian section of the NGO Secours Populaire Français. A modular typeface was designed for the occasion. As always, the design is guided and inspired by the general identity created for the Secours Populaire Français by Grapus and Pierre Bernard. Creator of Boule de Gomme (2010), Planet (2011, Sans, Serif, Ultralight, Ruler), Dynamo Text (2012, a serif), and Dynamo Titling (2012, a Swiss sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aurèle Sack is a globetrotter graphic designer specialized in type design 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. 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), Gallery, and Purple (Regular, Italic; a serif face published at Lineto). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Basel School of Design (Basel, Switzerland) offers an English-language program called Basics in Design, which spans one or two semesters of study. It includes a letterform design course by Lisa Pomeroy, and Wolfgang Weingart's workshop Basics in Typography, and Layout. German page. Alternate link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bastien Aubry
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Student at ECAL in Lausanne who made Ciao (2008), a revival of Italian faces done by Caslon in 1821. He is working on a connected script face called Afterwork (2010). Scan of his poster called Foam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typography expert at Microsoft who wrote Visual TrueType, a truetype font hinting program, and who helped out with Cleartype. He is also the author of The Raster Tragedy (1997, updated in 2011). Beat Stamm has a Ph.D. in Computer Science. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces made in 2009: DB72, DBColon, DBPoints Sans, DBCube, and DB13, mostly dot matrix or octagonal fonts. In 2010, these were followed by db Outline, db Stickers, db Stick, DB Cube New, db MOKI (stencil), db Ciao, db Ticket Light, db 72, DBpoints (dot matrix), DBPoin2, and db Kopix (blackletter), db New Points Italic (dot matrix face). In 2011, we find dB Stick, dB Sticker, dB Sticker Mono (a monospaced typewriter face), db Prague (fat sans), db Backjumps (an extraordinary fat poster stencil), db Perl, db Perl 1.2 (texture face), db Quarz (2011, +Mix), and db Nox and db Nox II. Fonts made in 2012: db Como (a simple monospace sans), db Sticker (hairline sans), db Rocko v2 (stencil face), db Today v1 (a beautiful black slab face), db Today v2, db Etroite (2012, in several weights: constructivist), db N3, db Drops (fat counterless face), db Quarz Mix, db Soda, db Klacks, db NQ, db Boxer, db Como (monospaced), db Smoothie (fat stencil face), db Quick Cut (stencil), db Karton (stencil), db Frieda. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type and graphic design competition, open to typefaces designed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Past winners were often selected for certain corporate projects, not for type design per se. The 2011 competition is the 43rd in this series. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer who has his own graphic design studio in Dortmund. Behance link. Creator of a great minimalistic logo face for the Swiss company Swyx (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer at Font Nest of Miss Hardcore (a macho sans), Miss Suisse (revival of an old Swiss dot matrix passport type), Miss Monde, Miss Cosmos (monospaced didone), Miss Vesalis (revival font from the De humani corporis fabrica, written by Andrea Vesalis in 1555), and Miss Potatoe (grunge family, with Jacques Borel). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Binnenland.Ch
| Swiss foundry which made several (typically Swiss) techno-sans families, such as Regular (originally created by Norm (Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs) as a lucidly structured and fully formulated headline typeface font back in 1999. In 2006 adapted and rounded out by Nik Thoenen to this current version), Relevant (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2007; loosely influenced by 'Record Gothic', created by R. Hunter Middleton for the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1927), T-Star Pro, T-Star TW Pro (typewriter face, Michael Mischler, 2002), and Blender Pro (Nik Thoenen, 2002-2009: an octagonal sans face). Catalog (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2005) is a serif family. FRAC (Nik Thoenen, 2003) is octagonal. Korpus (2012) is a text family designed by Mika Mischler and Nik Thoenen. Klingspor link for Nik Thoenen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss photo-typesetting company. Among their typefaces, we find the 1977-1978 effort leading to Signa (by André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind), and Trinité (1981, Bram de Does, part Bobst Graphic, part Autologic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer of the experimental geometric face Boris Light (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer from Interlaken who offers one beautiful free script font of his own hand, Excellentia (2005), and, earlier, of Excellentia in excelsis (2000). For 100 Swiss Francs, he will make your handwriting into a font. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
B+P Swiss Typefaces (was: BP Type Foundry)
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Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
B&P Typefoundry
| Type foundry in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 2005 by Ian Party and Maxime Buechi. From 2000-2004, Maxime Buechi studied graphic design&typography at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL). His typefaces include Rhodesia , a private type designed with Aurèle Sack for the book African Sniper (for NORM) in 2003 (it was not used there, but was used instead in the book Periferic 7), and a corporate typeface for the Centre for Curatorial Studies Bard&Hessel Museum, New York (2006, with Ian Party). In 2007, the following BP fonts saw the light: Neutral BP (Kai Bernau, a supposedly neutral sans family), La Police BP, Romain BP and Romain BP Headline (as the creator, Ian Parry, states: Based on the Commission Jeaugeon's models and on Philippe Grandjean's classic character, the Romain BP celebrates the marriage of geometric rationality and elegance, of science and craftsmanship. The Romain BP Text is actually closer to the Commission's model than Grandjean's Romain du Roi. It is more synthetic in its structure, more radical, and thus, more modern. It is a contemporary text typeface based on a structure that was created in 1690, not a revival mimicking Greandjean's shapes.). In 2007, they released Esquire, an upright script headline face. Other fonts are listed on my site under the various designers' names. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bruno Maag
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burodestruct (or: Typedifferent.com)
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Free fonts include(d) the gorgeous GalaQuadra (by Angela Pestalozzi, 1999), Eject Katakana (1998), Dippex (1995, grunge font), Ticket (1995), Rocket 70 (1996), Ratterbit (1995, pixel font), Plakatbau (1995), Lodel Fizler (1996), Flossy (1995), Faxer (1995), Console Remix (1998), Cravt (1998, by "Katrin"), Stereotype (1998, by M. Brunner), Brockelmann (1995, free), Kristallo (1997, very original display face) and Billiet (1996). Other fonts: Acidboyz (1998), Alustar (1999), BD Asciimax (1999, ascii art font), BD Billding, Bdr_mono (1999), Brick (1996, like Kalendar), Cluster (1996), Console (1997), Doomed (1998), Eject (1998), Electrobazar (1995), Elside (1995), Globus (1996), Fazer (1996), Lofi (1997), Medled (1995), Paccer (1995), Solaris (1998), Spicyfruits_brush_rmx (1998, a nice high-contrast face), Spicyfruits_rmx, Wurst (free, by Heiwid, 2000), Relaunch (2000), Relaunch Katakana (2000, free), Rainbow (2000), DeLaFrance (2000, free, by Heiwid), Electronic Plastic (2000), Colonius (2001), Cash (2001), Cashbox (2001), Bilding (2001), Meter (2001), Mustang (2001), Bankwell (2001), BD Alm (2001), Balduin (2001), Tatami (2001, oriental look font), Hexades (2001, free), Nippori (2002, techno), Jura (2002), Bonbon (2002, free), Band (2002, free), Navyseals (2002, kitchen tile font), Ritmic (2002), BDR Mono (1999, OCR-like font), Mann (2003, ultra fat stencil), Aroma (2003), Zenith (2003), Nebraska (2003), BD Equipment (2004), BD El Autobus (2004), BD Unexpected (2004), BD Wakarimasu (2004, free kana face), BD Bernebeats (2004, futuristic), BD Deckard (2004), BD Spinner (2004), BD Victoria (2004), BD Designer (2004), BD Kalinka (2005, a curly ultra-fat display face), BD Equipment (2004), BD El Autobus (2004), BD Unexpected (2004), BD Varicolor (2005, stencil), BD Chantilly (2005), BD Memory (2005), BD Emerald (2005, beveled), BD Kalinka (2005, Cyrillic simulation), BD Extrwurst (2005), BD Aquatico (2005), BD Mandarin (2005), BD Polo (2005), BD Beans (2005), BD Tiny (2005, pixel face), BD Times New Digital (2006), BD Panzer (2006), BD Jupiter, BD Jupiter Stencil (2006), BD Pipe (2006), BDR Mono 2006 (2006), BD Fimo Outline (2007, free, by Nathalie Birkle), BD Bermuda (2007, experimental and geometric), BD Smoker (2007, psychedelic), BD Radiogram (2007), BD Mother (2007, exaggerated black Egyptian), BD Fimo Regular (2007, free), BD Demon (2007), BD Reithalle (2007, free), BD Halfpipe (2007, free), BD Broadband (2008, free; not to be confused with the much older fonts BroadbandICG or FLOP Design's Broadband), BD Viewmaster and BD Viewmaster Neon (2008), BD Electrobazaar (2008), BD Motra (2008, stencil), BD Virtual (2008), BD Spacy 125 (2008), BD AsciiMax, BD ElAutobus (2004), BD Equipment (2004), BD Ramen (2003), BD Retrocentric (2009), BDR A3MIK (2009, virile Latin and Cyrillic slab), BD HitBit (2009), BD Unicorse (2010, unicase and techno), BD Telegraph (2011), BD Schablone (2012, stencil face). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Behance link. View the Typedifferent typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Burri-Preis Graphic Design
| Graphic design bureau in Zürich run by Susanne Burri and Stefanie Preis. Brezel Grotesk (2011, Milieu Grotesque) by Stefanie Preis of Burri-Preis is a sans serif typeface, inspired by the character of classic ninetheen-century grotesques, an unpretentious typestyle, completed by the regular, yet organic shape of a Bavarian pretzel. Readable in small point sizes, yet remarkable at larger sizes, the letters have distinctive terminals. Designed in four weights to function in all text settings, Brezel is suited for a wide range of applications. Unlike most sans serif typefaces of the 19th century Brezel Grotesk comes with a true italic. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Workshop held at ECAL in Lausanne in 2008, which resulted in the communal creation of the serif face Bussigny. The contributing participants were Bertrand Emaresi, Carina Frohburg, Dinh Nguyen, Dominique Boessner, Emmanuel Rey, Fabian Widmer, Jean-François Porchez (the leader and supervisor), Mathieu Meyer, Natacha Kirchner, Nicolas Eigenheer, Sarah Kläy, and Sébastien Fontannaz. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Catharsis
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As Catharsis, the commercial foundry, he published Octant in 2013: Octant is an original steampunk display typeface drawing inspiration from Victorian-age steel and brass engineering, as well as from blackletter typography. Gryffensee (2013, in styles called Eins, Zwei and Drei) is designed to be the Futura of blackletter, combining the time-honored gravity and relentlessness of the Gothic script with the clean, contemporary freshness of the geometric sans. It also covers Cyrillic. Backstein (2013), baked brick, took its inspiration from the broken antiqua lettering in Berlin's old subway stations. Volantene Script (2013) is an uncial display typeface inspired by the penmanship of Lady Talisa Maegyr-Stark as seen on HBO's Game of Thrones. 1001 fonts link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss graphic designer, typographer and illustrator (b. Wangen, 1922). From 1959 on, he designed many postage stamps for the Swiss post office. He does the corporate identity (including type) for Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (1960-), and is best known for murals, posters and over 500 book covers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cesar Hernandez
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Swiss nonprofit organization (Swiss branch of the YMCA) whose identity sans font, CeviBold (1997), can be freely downloaded. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer who created Hydrargyrum, Bold&Round, Hopp, Ditter, Dreissiger, Effeu, Halifax1, Kissinger, Manhattan, Moood, Neunziger, Robbery, Rough G, Swirth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Le Corbusier. Swiss architect, designer, urban planner, sculptor, writer, modern furniture designer, and painter. Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, in 1887, he died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, in 1965. His lettering inspired the Letraset rubdown dry transfer face Charrette. He also inspired many digital fonts: Jeanneret NF (2011, a stencil face by Nick Curtis), Le Corbusier (a stencil face by Philippe Desarzens, Lineto), Modular Stencil (1994, stencil face by Gregory La Vardera), and Le Corbusier (2000, stencil face by Nico Schweizer). In 2013, Henry Valerian created a typeface that is based on the blocky construction of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse in Marseille. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Chhun Keo
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Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Neuro (2006), Lubmin (2008). He writes: The Lubmin typeface is a product of adaption of a standard character set (by VEB Typoart, Dresden) that was applied on roadname signs in the former Democratic Republic of Germany. It is, as far as documented, a production of early Prussian standard typefaces, which were also pattern for nowadays DIN font. The type went into action in many ways: Road signs, railway and military signals and also car plates; so almost anywhere a functional, easy reproduceable type was needed. The original letters were often different from road sign to road sign, because the signpainters had a variable elaborateness in painting the letters; some shapes are much more angular than others. So it had been a way of finding a compromise in this case. Also some points were interpreted in a new way, curves had been changed a little bit to accord readability aspects; but all in all, the Lubmin type is as original as in the time of the #Iron Curtain#. His future site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian "Cinga" Thalmann
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Christian Mengelt (b. 1938, St. Gallen, Switzerland) is a graphic designer, type designer, and teacher. He studied graphic design under Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder at the School of Design, Basel. In 1964, he set up his own graphic design studio together with different partners, and has cooperated with various design and advertising agencies, such as GGK Basel, Switzerland, and Mendell&Oberer Munich, Germany. With Karl Gerstner and Günter Gerhard Lange, he was briefly involved in the Gerstner program at H. Berthold AG. Early type designs include Univers Compugraphic (1972, Compugraphic) and Cyrillic Gothic (1974, Compugraphic), both realized in cooperation with André Gürtler. From 1972-2001, he taught graphic and type design at the Basel School of Design, which he headed from 1986-2001. With André Gürtler and Erich Gschwind, he formed Team 77 in Basel and became deeply involved in most aspects of letterform design and application, which led to these type designs:
After a long hiatus, with the help of the Linotype staff, he created Sinova in 2011, a versatile humanist sans type family in ten styles, which has broad language support. Typedia link. MyFonts link. Linotype link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christine Gertsch
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Born in Zürich in 1941, Gassner is professor at the University of Kassel. He designed Vexier (1973), Leopard (1976), Knirsch (1976). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer, b. 1979, Winterthur. He studied graphic design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern. His typefaces:
Together with Megi Zumstein, he set up Hi. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Clovis Vallois
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Site run by five guys from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. They designed CombitBox, a modular font of basic blackletter pieces. These pieces fit together to make nice blackletter fonts. Included are André Apel (Zürich), Jan Schöttler (München), Kim Hensler (Villingen), Thomas Wimmer, and Tom Prochnow (Dresden). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Comedia is a Swiss type magazine established in 2002. It has many interesting articles on typography and type design (in French and German). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
----copy----foundry
| I was told by Philippe Cuendet (the "fondator" (sic)) that this is a foundry established by Laurence Jaccottet, Gregor Schönborn and Niels Wehrspann, and that more fonts will be arriving soon. Font preview. Gregor Schönborn, who is based in Lausanne, made the Rolecks font based on the Rolex logo. Jaccottet and Wehrspann are the designers of the inline AGIP font (2001) based on the logo of AgipPetroli, digitized for the book "Benzin: Junge Schweitzer Graphik". [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cornel Windlin
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Designer (b. 1994) in Bern, Switzerland of Broken n Weak (2011). Tag Tceoretic (2011) is a graffiti face. C8a Tajra (2012) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tauted as an "entreprise graphique et utopique", CroCroTraUmAx (the font) was developed in December 1997 during a workshop at écal, école cantonale d'art de Lausanne, Switzerland, organized and headed by Michael Amzalag, Mathias Augustiniak, M/M (Paris) and Cornel Windlin (Zürich). The CroCro Team consists of Angelo Benedetto, Alexandre Bettler, Sara Bochicchio, Anne-Catherine Boehi, Philippe Cuendet, Loic Delcroix, Philippe Desarzens, Ligia Dias, Nicolas Duc, Thomas Egger, Barbara Ehrbar, Aisha Enz, Vincent Greset, Bettina Hempel-Schuster, Cédric Henny, Ivan Liechti, Patrick Monnier, Violaine Pont, Claudia Roethlisberger, Alexandra Ruiz, Dominique Scholl, Gilles Turin, Vincent Turin, Jean-Thomas Vanotti, Niels Wehrspann. Free, Mac only. PC version. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Zurich in 1973, this graphic designer created the graffiti fonts Keusta (2011), Cruze (2003) and Cruze2 (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator at FontStruct of the minimal Hofmann, in the style that (Swiss type teacher) Armin Hofmann used in one of his posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature-poetry, art manifestoes, art theory-theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity - in art and more broadly in society - that corresponded to the war. Dada was anti-art. It is believed that Dadaism started in October 1916 in Zurich where Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire expressing their disgust with the war and the interests that inspired it. In the Netherlands the Dada movement centered mainly around Theo van Doesburg, most well known for establishing the De Stijl movement and magazine of the same name. The dadaists developed some art techniques such as collages, assemblages (3d collages), photomontages, and readymades. Another encyclopedia. German page on Dada's history. Summary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dalton Maag
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Bruno Maag designed these commercial fonts:
Fonts sold at Fontworks, and through the Bitstream Type Odyssey CD (2001). At the ATypI in 2001 in Copenhagen, he stunned the audience by announcing that he would never again make fonts for the general public. From now on, he would just do custom fonts out of his office in London. And then he delighted us with the world premiere of two custom font families, one for BMW (BMWType, 2000, a softer version of Helvetica, with a more virile "a"; some fonts are called BMWHelvetica), and one for the BMW Mini in 2001 (called MINIType: this family comprises MINITypeRegular-Bold, MINITypeHeadline-Regular, MINITypeHeadline-Bold, MINITypeRegular-Regular). Other custom faces: Tottenham Hotspur (2006), Teletext Signature (by Basten Greenhill Andrews and Dalton Maag), Skoda (Skoda Sans CE by Dalton Maag is based on Skoda Formata by Bernd Möllenstädt and MetaDesign London), UPC Digital, BT (for British Telecommunications), Coop Switzerland (for Coop Schweiz), eircom, Lambeth Council, Tesco (2002), PPP Healthcare, ThyssenKrup (Dalton Maag sold his soul to these notorious arms dealers; TK Type is the name of the house font), Co Headline (2006), Co Text (2006, now a commercial font), Telewest Broadband, Toyota Text and Display (2008), TUIType, HPSans (for Hewlett-Packard, 1997). His custom Vodafone family (sans) (2005) is based on InterFace. In 2011, Dalton Maag created Nokia Pure for Nokia's identity and cellphones, to replace Erik Spiekermann's Nokia Sans (2002). The Nokia Pure typeface has rounder letters, and is simultaneously more legible and more rhythmic. In 2010, the Dalton Maag team consisted of Bruno Maag and David Marshall as managing and operations directors, and Vincent Connare as production manager. The type designers are Amélie Bonet, Ron Carpenter, Fabio Haag, Lukas Paltram and Malcolm Wooden. Interview in 2012 in which he stresses that typefaces should above all be functional. View the Dalton Maag typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dani Klauser
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Dani Klauser Grafik Design (or: DKGD)
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Daniel Bär
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Swiss designer (b. 1958, Schaffhausen) and type designer. His typefaces:
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Daniel Lüthi
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Wil, Switzerland-based creator of a nice type poster of Jan Tschichold. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dario Hofstetter
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Daryl Roske is a British and German national studying and working in Montreux, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany. He studied visual arts at the College Voltaire in Geneva, graduating in 1991. He has carried out identity designs for Buitoni, The Art Center (Europe), the IDRH, and the Federal Office of Civil Aviation. Fobia is his first typeface (Font Bureau). A fun and exciting font, it is also in Robin Williams' book "A Blip in the Continuum" (Peachpit Press). Bauklotz (2010) are letters made from building blocks. Behance link. shr communication GmbH is his art direction and graphic design business in Hamburg. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Freelance motion designer and art director who grew up in Valencia, Spain, and was born in 1976. He now lives and works in Zurich. Creator of the free geometric font Cubop (2009). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonts planned for 2011: the pixel / modular faces Interlaken and Avenches, the handprinted faces Furna and Dalpe, the minimalist monoline sans face Surpierre, the geometric sans Duvin, and the display faces Glaris, Wildberg, Faoug, Carona, Marbach, Montagny, Coeuve, Kaisten (organic), Mathod (a construction face), Kloten, Calpiogna, Hirchberg, Plagne, Reute. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Rust
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Swiss creator of the fat finger typeface Dave Ulm (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
dCTRL
| Andreas A. Lorenz is the Zürich-based designer at dCTRL of the pixel fonts Large (2000) and Fat (2000). For now, available in Mac and PC formats at the HI-TYPE site. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Design Factory
| Cesar Hernandez is a Peruvian designer who studied in England and makes custom type in Brugg in Switzerland, where he founded Design Factory. A screen font, Loft 04-06 is shown on his home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Design reviver
| Links to 50 nice high quality free fonts. Collected by Mirko Humbert, a freelance designer from Switzerland. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dice
| In 1998, Thomas A. Heim (University of Basel, Switzerland) created a metafont called Dice with dice in 2d. There is an accompanying Postscript package as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dieu et mon droit
| Jas Rewkiewicz ("Dieu et mon droit") was a Swiss graphic design student at ECAL (Lausanne) who made Armstrong (a revival of Letraset Neil Bold), Didot MAT (serifless Didot tailored for Man About Town magazine), Didot Builder, Eugenie (a didone), LOL (a clean sans), Miranda Sans, Miranda Serif and Roma 1560. He lived in Lausanne but is now in London, where he works as a graphic designer. Normandia Bold (2007) is in the spirit of the extra-black high contrast Didot caps faces. Fournier RD (2007) is his interpretation of the famous Fournier typeface. Doop (2007) is a basic sans made for a client in London. Ultra (2007) is based on a Clarendon, inspired by Beton and finally its borrowing certain details from more extreme fonts like the Gill Sans Ultra Bold and the Maple from Process Type Foundry. Bonbon (2009) is a stylized headline font designed for the unique typographic style of Bon magazine. Industria (2009, Light Italic, Light, and Medium) is a corporate font family of the Saturday Group. Neo Futura Book (2009, in progress) is a contemporary interpretation of Paul Renner's classic. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Digital type software company headed by Ernest Imhof. Based in Switzerland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dimitri Bruni
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Swiss graphic designer. Creator of My First Font (2012, based on DIN). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luzern, Switzerland-based designer of the poster typeface Chaplin Style (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Codesigner, with Moiré in Zurich, of GT Pressura (2012-2013). Grilli Type published GT Pressura (with monospaced and proportional versions), which was inspired by type stamped on shipping boxes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cast was conceived in 2007 during Dominique Kerber's type design studies at the ZHdK in Zurich (Switzerland). After graduation, Dominique Kerber continued working on this project to complete this humanist sans family in March 2011. His foundry, also called Dominique Kerber, is located in Winterthur. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer (b. 1969) who publishes his work with URW++. He created Bohemian (URW++, 2002), Parametra, Bavaroir, Organicon, Phenotype. These display fonts have a nice "je ne sais quoi" and lots of oomph. Philip has a Ph.D. in chemistry. Bio at URW. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
A brief description of the school can be found in the article écal-typografie restart (Comedia, edition 04-5/6, 2004). Led by Pierre Keller. The program on the poorly designed web page does not mention anything on typography. However, teachers include Ian Party (who runs BP Foundry). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His typefaces include Agile (2007, a sans family done at KABK), Grosse Pläne, Instant Schrift (2000: Redesign of Isonorm 3098 matching the radical restrictions of the Instant design-manual), and Sonic Waves. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typefounder who made the Haas Typefoundry as the center of the Swiss movement in the design of typefaces in the 1950s. He directed Max Miedinger in the development of Helvetica, and Hermann Eidenbenz in Clarendon (1953). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type meeting on November 25, 2006, held at Technopark, Zürich. Speakers: Michel Poffet, Lucas Stähli, Mats Küpfer, Claudia Wildermuth, Félix Müller and Stephan Rappo, Johanna and Peter Bilak, Daniel Janssen, and Yves Zimmermann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ives Zimmerman (Basel) on the design of the Euro. In Spanish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Elektrosmog
| Elektrosmog in reality is a design studio in Zürich, run by Valentin Hindermann and Marco Walser. They designed Storno (1999) at lineto. Still at lineto, they published Brauer in 2000, based on a design by Max Miedinger. I was informed that Brauer was at least partially made by Max Miedinger's nephew, Pierre Miedinger. Marco Walser of Elektrosmog and Philippe Desarzens later developed this typeface further into the six weights of LL Brauer Neue. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss designer at Haas (1906-1948) who made the heavy broad pen script font Bravo (1945) and Chevalier (1946). Bravo was revived in 2007 by ARTypes as Bravo AR (2007). There is also a free digital font by Richard William Mueller called Bravo MF (1994). Chevalier became Maurice at SoftMaker. Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typographer (b. Zürich 1914, d. Basel, 1970), and type guru in the 50s and 60s. Taught at the Basel School of Design (Kunstgewerbeschule), and founded the International Center for the Typographic Arts in New York, 1962. Author of Typographie: Ein Gestaltungslehrbuch - A Manual of Design - Un Manuel de Creation (Teufen: Niggli, 1967), and Typographie. Ein Gestaltungslehrbuch. Mit über 500 Beispielen (7th edition in 2001, Niggli). The Road to Basel (Helmut Schmid) is an homage to Emil Ruder by Helmut Schmid, one of Ruders students, who headed a group of other ex-students and organized their contributions. The former students who participated are Harry Boller, Roy Cole, Heini Fleischhacker, Fritz Gottschalk, André Gürtler, Hans-Jürg Hunziker, Hans-Rudolf Lutz, Fridolin Müller, Marcel Nebel, Åke Nilsson, Bruno Pfäffli, Will van Sambeek, Helmut Schmid, Peter Teubner, Wolfgang Weingart, and Yves Zimmermann. Karl Gerstner and Kurt Hauert also contributed. Paul Shaw reviews this book and Ruder's contributions. Quotes from Shaw's piece:
IDEA Mag's special issue #332 entitled Ruder Typography Ruder Philosophy (2009), with articles by Leon Maillet (Tessin), Armin Hofmann (Lucerne), Karl Gerstner (Basel), Kurt Hauert (Basel), Lenz Klotz (Basel), Wim Crouwel (Amsterdam), Adrian Frutiger (Paris), Hans Rudolf Bosshard (Zurich), Andre Gutler (Basel), Juan Arrausi (Barcelona), Ake Nilsson (Uppsala), Fridolin Muller (Stein am Rhein), Harry Boller (Chicago), Maxim Zhukov (New York), Taro Yamamoto (Tokyo), Fjodor Gejko (Düsseldorf), Helmut Schmid (Osaka), and Susanne Ruder-Schwarz (Basel). Article on Ruder by Shane Bzdok, 2008. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designers of the pixel font Large9 (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
See a version of Euclid in use by the city of Stockholm [called Stockholm Type], and read the (mostly negative) reactions of the typophiles. On Flickr, upon seeing that umlauts were replaced by macrons, Hrant Papazian writes: Pissed androgynous royals rule. Behance link. He currently works as a freelance designer in Berlin. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
EPFL
| Study typography, raster imaging, font recognition and related matters under the supervision of Roger Hersch at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
ERACOM is the Ecole romande d'art et communication de Lausanne. The program has one course on typography and one half course on type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lugano, Switzerland-based creator of the sharp-edged typeface Chiron (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer at You Work For Them who created Victrola, Metal Face, NYMN, DropBit Rnd, DropBit Hrzn, DropBit 50, HLLVTKA (a grungified Helvetica: see here), HLLVTKA Round, Connery, OffHand, Adderley, Offhand Round (simple handwriting), OffHand Sharp, and OffHand Script, ca. 2007-2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Zürich, 1945. Trained as compositor (lead) and as Monotype keyboard operator. Studied Typography and Type from 1969-1971 at the Basel Gewerbeschule under Robert Büchler (the director was Emil Ruder) and André Gürtler. Instructor for type apprentices in Basel, and free-lance book designer in Zürich and Cham/Zug since the 80s. Owner and publisher and editor at Syntax Press (which he founded in 1964) and later at Syndor Press Cham/Switzerland from 1996-2002. He sold Syndor Press in 2002 to Niggli Verlag Sulgen. Editor of several books by Adrian Frutiger, Hans Ed. Meier and René Groebli (a photographer). Author of "Adrian Frutiger Formen und Gegenformen/Forms and counterforms" (Cham, 1998), "Adrian Frutiger Lebenszyklus/Life cycle" (Cham, 2000), and An Introduction to the History of Printing Types (London, 1998; the original publication was in 1961). He continues to spend much of his time assisting Frutiger, Andrél Gürtler, H.E. Meier, Alfred Hoffmann and other important figures in Swiss typography who are also his close friends. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer based in Basel of ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book Oblique, one of many Oblique weights made by Gschwind in 1977 for ITC. Forms Team 77 with André Gürtler and Christian Mengelt. At Autologic, those three designers published Media (1976) and Signa (1978). Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Erich Oswald at ETH Zürich developed several pieces of software, such as OType (free open source), "a package for loading and rendering TrueType fonts within Oberon, comparable to the Freetype project." Also, Gfx, a high-level graphics library that allows one to create EPS files. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer (b. 1932, Zürich) who studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule under Rudolf Bircher and Walter Käch. He created his own graphic art studio in Zürich where he practiced typography, symbol and logo creation, and packaging design. Creator of Friz Quadrata (1965, Visual Graphic Corp). It was released by ITC in 1974. The bold weight was added by Vic Caruso. Two italics were created by Thierry Puyfoulhoux in 1994. Finally, a Cyrillic version was developed at ParaGraph in 1997 by Alexander Tarbeev. Friz Quadrata is part of the Linotype library, but Adobe, Bitstream and ITC all have versions. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Essences of Design
| Great commercial dingbats by Swiss designer Giada Ghiringhelli (b. 1981): Nav2000v1, JustFrames, Buttons Galore, Interfaces (borders). Linkware: Essbuttons, Essornaments, Esssolare, Essgem, EssInterfaces, EssFrames, EssNav1, WWW Trinkets. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
In 2012, Dick Pape created a few typefaces based on Grasset's alphabets. These include LFD Asian Stencilling 205 (original oriental-looking art nouveau drawings by E. Grasset and M. Verneil) and LFD French Printed Type 189 (this warm serif face was used in France for books). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer (b. 1916, Scherzingen) of Profil (Haas, 1946, with his brother Max Lenz). Associated in the late 40s and 50s with Haas. Profil is a set of inclined rimmed capitals and numbers. Profil became Decorated 035 at Biststream. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Europa Type
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Swiss outfit that published OCR-B in 1966, Adrian Frutiger's rounded and human readable counterpart to OCR-A. One of Frutiger's rare failures. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabian Leuenberger
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed MonoBD (monospaced sans), Kagi Mono (mini-serifed stencil), Concrete, Puzzle, Museefont (octagonal), Relief (experimental) and Helveliga (with Jerome Rigaud and Sylvain Aerni). He created the stencil face Montana at Optimo/Gavillet&Rust. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabian Widmer
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Fatype
| Foundry, est. in 2012 by Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar in Berlin, and in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Fatype has designed typefaces for GQ France (such as GQ Baton), Derzeit (2012, Fashion Week Berlin Daily: a typeface by Yassin Baggar and Manuel Schibli), Google and Journal B. Their typefaces include U8 (2010, Anton Koovit), Aleksei (Anton Koovit) and Adam BP (2008, Anton Koovit). U8 started out as a Berlin subway system signage project based on found lettering. Some glyphs had to designed from scratch. The result is an early modernist typeface with elements of DIN and Bauhaus. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A Swiss designer and type designer (b. 1970, Basel), who made Cisalpin [also called Cassini in its earlier grotesque life, 1999-2000], a typeface for cartography, which was published it with Linotype in 2004. Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Carmelo, Colonia, Uruguay in 1983, and presently based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studies Visual Communication at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design, this graphic designer created the counterless geometric face Circ (2011), and the triangulated experimental face VIGA (2011). Fermin has a Bachelors degree in Industrial Design (2009). At his foundry, also called Fermin Guerrero, one can buy VIGA and MANIFESTA (2012, a De Stijl typeface). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Fidel Peugeot
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Filippo Salmina
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flag.cc
| Zürich-based design firm of Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard, who designed interesting fonts (no sales or downloads though): Bundesrat (2006, octagonal), Macaroni (2006: letters from circles), Courier Fleurie (2006), Flop (2006). Both graduated from HGK Zürich in 2002. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss designer of PixelFJ (2003). See also here. Now also pix PixelFJVerdana12pt (2003) and pix PixelFJDuke16pt (2004), pix-PixelFJDeath16pt (2004). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flo Weber (b. 1994, Switzerland) designed PixXary (2010, FontStruct). Aka HeyHou. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A collective of mostly Swiss type designers who showcase their designs. The designers are Aimée Hoving, Franz Hoffman, Jacques Borel, Harry Bloch, Matthias Gehri, Sylvain Aerni, Jacques Dousse, Thomas Eberwein, Juerg Lehni, Fabian Monod, Émilie Renault, Jérôme Rigaud and Pierre Terrier. No downloads yet. The list of fonts: Jawut (2002, Franz Hoffman, Juerg Lehni, Jérôme Rigaud, Pierre Terrier): a face inspired by André Baldinger's Newut / Puzzle (Fabian Monod) / Troyd (Sylvain Aerni) / Encoda MM (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Encoda Anfang (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Absinthia (Sylvain Aerni) / Punebot (Sylvain Aerni) / Alchemia (Sylvain Aerni) / Basicrounded (Sylvain Aerni) / Bacted_Flagada_Trigger (Sylvain Aerni): a dirty look font / Crux (Jacques Dousse): a gothic bitmap font / Frankental (Jacques Dousse): a dot matrix font / Multitool (Jacques Dousse): a dingbat font with firemen's tools / Hexagonipus (Jacques Dousse): a kitchen tile font based on lettering on Spitfires / TGV (Jérôme Rigaud) / Lafrui (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected lettering font / Plan De Paris (Jérôme Rigaud): lettering from an old plan of Paris / ScriptedPix (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected screen font / Rhizompix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / Pix2x (Jérôme Rigaud): an experimental screen font / Condpix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / handled_Matrix (Jérôme Rigaud): a dirty screen font / Soul&Funk (2002, Jérôme Rigaud) / Russian (2002, Jérôme Rigaud): a cyrillic simulation font / mtrxs (Sylvain Aerni and Jérôme Rigaud): a dot matrix font / wellKrau (Pierre Terrier and Jérôme Rigaud): an irregularly tiled font / Minaco (Thomas Eberwein): a screen font family / Tilt (Thomas Eberwein): a dot matrix font. Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontConverter.Org
| Free on-line font format converter from these formats (as input): TrueType, PostScript (Type 1 font), TeX Bitmap Fonts, OTB (X11 bitmap only sfnt), BDF (Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format), FON (Windows), FNT (Windows), OTF OpenType font, SVG, TTC, ABF (Adobe Binary Screen Font), AFM (Adobe Font Metrics File), BDF (Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format), DFONT (Mac OS X Data Fork Font). The output is one of these: TTF TrueType, OTF OpenType, FON Generic font, PFB Printer font binary, dfont Mac OS X data fork font. By T. Reinhardt, Switzerland. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontdesign by Fidel Peugeot
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FONTSELF
| Lausanne-based type site related to a project conceived and designed by two graphic designers, Franz Hoffman and Pierre Terrier from studio koilinen, and a software developer, Marc Escher. A quote: It provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.) It appears that one can create, with their software (not downloadable, not for sale--go figure), a bitmap font. This, in turn can be used to simulate handwriting. Fonts (format unclear, not downloadable) include grunge faces (Agrotesk, Linexspray), handwriting (Psycho, Mascara, Meriem, Bic, Ehcadnarac, Manu, Signo, Manuscript), and scanned text faces (Baskerville, Garabig, Franklin Multi, Sabon, Gothique, Dido). This seems at first to a free font service, but do not waste your time. The created "fonts" cannot be downloaded. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dario Nuevo's big and well-organized font archive. It is very careful about what is posted, so don't expect to find commercial goodies here. Alternate URL. Still another URL. One more URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundations of Typography B
| A so-called web poster exhibition by René Wanner (Switzerland), who runs a quite complete poster page, on the theme of the letter B. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss boy scout and designer of MorseCode (1999), which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Zürich-based creator of the dot matrix face called Bubbles (1996, Garcia Fonts) and of the curly typeface Loop (1996). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed Jawut (2002, with Pierre Terrier, Juerg Lehni, and Jérôme Rigaud: a face inspired by André Baldinger's Newut). He cofounded Fontself with Marc Escher and Pierre Terrier: this is a bitmap text engine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FS Design
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Filippo was born in 1975 in Switzerland. His work is sold through MyFonts. Mimix (2008) is an informal and playful italic serif family. He is massaging Mimix into a sans family that mixes various styles, old and new. Sintesi (2010), Sintesi Sans (2012) and Sintesi SemiSans (2011) are sans faces with personality---the former has Peignotian contrast, while the latter two are almost monolined and eem little bit angry with the world. In 2012, he published the humanistic italics only sans family Stile. Italicfonts.com web site. Mimix web site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss creator of the handprinted Gabriel Weiss' Friends Font (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gaël Goy
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Gavillet&Rust
| Gavillet&Rust is a design company based in Geneva. It was founded in 2002 by Gilles Gavillet and David Rust, two ECAL (University of Art&Design Lausanne) alumni. Now a four people studio, they develop projects for a range of institutional and private clients such as JRP|Ringier, Zürich and the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). Their type, poster and book designs have been awarded numerous times at the Swiss design awards. In 2006, they received the Jan Tschichold Prize from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture. Type designs include Executive, Cargo (Optimo: a stencil family), Hermes, Index, Montana and Politics. Associated with Optimo in Lausanne. They are doing custom type such as the gorgeous bi-line deco face for the Saks Gallery in Geneva (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Gemjm
| Young Swiss designers Alessandro Volz and Jona Mantovan made some freeware/shareware fonts in 1997/1998: Joal, Gemypt, Sephiroth, HiSky, Pinkpixel, LaScrituraDalMeNono (5USD), SmartHand (10USD). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Georg Sommeregger runs the Swiss site Schreibmaschinen. He made two free typewrter emulation fonts, L.C. Smith 5 Typewriter (2010), and Urania Piccola II (2009, made with Fontcapture). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giada Celine Ghiringhelli
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German creator of the artistic ultra-fat face Lettres Carrées (2009) and of Mono (2009) and SupperzapperI (2010). Gian Wickj architecture, a site in Switzerland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gilles Gavillet
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Ex-student of the University of Art&Design Lausanne (Ecal) and the Cranbrook Academy of Arts. Geneva-based designer at the Lausanne-based foundry Optimo. With Cornel Windlin at lineto in Zürich, he co-designed these fonts in 1999: Pixel Crude, Vectrex, GravurCondensed, Pixel World, Vectrex World (skyline dingbats), Liquid Crystal and Supermax. Did Autologic (1997, created as a shortcut to make logos), DetroitMM (1997), Kornkuh, Lineto (2001, an octagonal font), Kabin, Chip at Optimo. With David Rust, he cofounded Gavillet&Rust in Geneva in 2002, and co-created these fonts in 2003: Cargo (a stencil face), Hermes (a typewriter family), Index and Politics. In 2004, he created the stencil family Montana (Optimo). In 2005, he and Rust added Hermes Sans to the Hermes family. In 2007, this was followed by Executive, a simple sans family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss vendors of the "1000 NewDeal Fonts CD by GOCE 1000" for 40 Swiss francs. Reportedly, this contains the Optifont collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gregor Schönborn
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Born in Rheinfelden in 1941, Gret Mengelt-Mergenthaler studied at the famous Schule für Gestaltung (Kunstgewerbeschule) Basel. Since 1962, she works as a graphic designer. She taught at her alma mater from 1975 onwards, and set up an atelier in Blauen, Baselland, in 1987. In 1963, Gret created Texpo with Walter Ballmer for the Schweizer Expo 1964. While this typeface is not generally available, Mindofone made a free version of it, called Hadley Stencil in 2013. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2010, their catalog had four type families: GT Walsheim, GT Haptik, GT Skeletor (monoline grotesk) and GT Lena (avant garde sans). In 2013, that number decreased to three, GT Walsheim, GT Haptik and GT Pressura. GT Pressura was designed in 2013 by Moiré and Dominik Huber. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grotesk
| Design bureau in Geneva, Switzerland. Here, Kimou Meyer and Vincent Sahli made Cointrin (1998), a font based on the old arrival boards at Geneva's airport. Other fonts: Synchrovision, Tricot, Sumo. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
grotesk cc
| Grotesk cc is Tobias Rechsteiner, Reto Moser, and Simon Renfer in Bern, Switzerland. The former two designed GT Haptik (2009), which is a grotesk face in which the letters are optimized to be read blindfolded and by touching them. GT Haptik was published at Grilli Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Guerilla Grafik
| From Biel, Switzerland, Thomas Balmer's outfit, Guerilla Grafik, offers a few free fonts for download. The page is extremely dangerous (it will take over your screen!), with pop-ups and uncontrollable things happening left and right. Be prepared for a reboot. Anyway, if you risk it, you may find these mostly pixel fonts: GG-Motor, GG-Realpx, GG-Nintendo, GG-Digitalareal, GG-KGB. Working on the simple sans serif face GGrapidograph (2002). Non-free fonts: GG-Modul, GG-Formular, GG-Vektor, GG-Eckhardt, GG-Info, GG-Zike, GG-Balmer, GG-Sanchezclone. Mac fonts only. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss designer of the pixel face Atari (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
View the Haas typeface library. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Hannes Famira
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Swiss type designer in Obstalden, Switzerland, born in 1922 in Horgen am Zürichsee, who was associated with ETH Zurich for a long time. He created these typefaces:
In his own words: Es entstanden die Druckschriften Barbedor, Syndor, Oberon und die Entwürfe für Barbetwo, Syntax-Letter und Lapidar sowie verschiedene Fonts mit mathematischen Zeichen für den Gebrauch am Institut. Links: Superb analysis of his life and contributions by Roxane Jubert (in French). His latest project is a school script for handwriting. Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. View Hans Eduard Meier's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Painter and drawer born in Augsburg in 1497, who died in 1543. He is most famous for his woodcut alphabet produced in Basel between 1522 and 1526 entitled The Dance of Death. At the Psymon site, we can find several initial cap alphabets of his in GIF format: these include The Alphabet Of Children (1527-1532) and The Dance Of Death (or: Danse Macabre) of Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1523). Digital versions abound:
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Born in 1929 in Balm/Lotstetten, Germany. He studied typefounding in Schaffhausen from 1944-1948, and worked as typesetter in printing shops in Zürich and Stockholm from 1951-1959. From 1959-1994, he taught typographic design in various schools, and from 1993-1998, he was a free-lance book designer associated with Niggli. Author of "Der typografische Raster The Typographic Grid" (Zürich, 2000), and "Typografie Schrift Lesbarkeit" (Verlag Niggli AG, Switzerland, 1996). The latter (highly recommended) book surveys legibility issues in type choices, and closes with a classification of post-1945 typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designed Deadtype (1999, dingbats consisting of metal parts of a typewriter, 1999) at lineto. Probably Swiss. Web page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer (b. 1938, Switzerland, based in Paris) who studied typesetting in Zürich from 1954-1958. Later he studied with Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann in Basel (1965-1967). From 1967-1971, he was a type designer with Mergenthaler Linotype in Brooklyn, NY, where he worked with Matthew Carter. From 1971-1975, he worked with Frutiger in Paris, and became a freelance designer in 1976. From 1990-2006, he led some labs at the Atelier de Recherche Typographique, NRT, in Nancy. From 1998-2002, he had his own design bureau together with Ursula Held: Atelier H. He has also taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zürich. He codesigned CGP (used in Centre Georges Pompidou; 1974-94, with Jean Widmer, and Adrian Frutiger), Centre Pompidou Pictograms (1974, for the same project in Paris), Cyrillic (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger for IBM Composer), Frutiger (in 1976 with Adrian Frutiger at Stempel), Gando Ronde (a formal script, with Matthew Carter in 1970; Linotype; called French 111 at Bitstream), Helvetica (with Matthew Carter in 1970; Linotype), Iera Arabic and Iera Roqa Arabic (1983, Institut d'étude et de recherches pour l'arabisation; Honeywell Bull), Metro (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger; used in the RATP), Univers and Univers Cyrillic (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger; Linotype), and the Siemens custom type family (in 2001, a cooperation with URW). Siemens, the project he is best known for, won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typographer (b. Zürich, 1939, d. 1998). He had his own studio, Lutz Verlag, in Zürich. He published books such as "Typoundso" and "Ausbildung in typografischer Gestaltung". He taught at the schools of design in Zürich and Luzern for over thirty years, and founded the typography department in Luzern in 1968. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Happypets is an experimental lab of graphic designers based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Type experiments only. No fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Harry Oesch
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Bern-based creator (b. 1983) of Schuboise Handwrite (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss/French graduate of Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL), who designed Chiavari (2011), a typeface that won an award at TDC 2012. Hélène Zünd (b. 1983) lives in New York. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heidrun Osterer (b. 1966, Switzerland) is a graphic designer and CEO of Feinherb Visuelle Gestaltung. She is also the co-founder of the Swiss Foundation Type and Typography. In addition, she is a part-time lecturer of screen typography at the Vocational School of Design in Zürich. Consultant of the Swiss Typographic Magazine STM. Since 2001, she carried out research on the professional career of Adrian Frutiger. Her book, coauthored with Philipp Stamm, on Frutiger's life is Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces The Complete Works (2009, Birkhäuser). She spoke about this work at ATypI 2008 in Petersburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of BD Reihalle (2007, Burodestruct) and BD Halfpipe (2007, Burodestruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Japanische Typographie und Schweizer Typographie, published in Comedia, edition 03-1, 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Helveticfonts (or: The Swiss Type Foundry)
| Lionel Bovet (Geneva, Switzerland) founded Helveticfonts ca. 2012. He created the Peignotian typeface family La Collongeoise (2012). The following typefaces are being planned: Geometria, Geofil, Geofil Slab, Elbé. Personal web site. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer based in Zurich. In 2013, he started work on the ans family Hikari. He writes: Before the Haas Type Foundry released Helvetica in 1957, constructivist sans serif fonts were classified as Grotesk, a term that reflected the dismissive notion of typesetters in previous times. It was Art Deco and the Bauhaus movement, along with modernist architecture, fresh ideas and stricter shapes in interior design, a style influenced by industrial and technological developments, that made Grotesk fonts more popular over time. Ever since the introduction of Helvetica Neue, classicistic sans serif fonts have been domineered by this Swiss style. Over the last six decades, typesetters, designers and typographers remembered and used other constructivist sans serif styles, like Futura and Neuzeit. In the late 1980s, American classics like Trade Gothic and Franklin Gothic were used again in Advertising, so the American newspaper title style has been a second strong influence on sans serif fonts and Adrian Frutiger’s typeface for the Parisian airport, Frutiger, sparked a rennaissance of humanist sans serif fonts. It seems impossible to reimagine a constructivist or classicistic sans serif without taking one of these previous styles in account. However, its tone of voice can still be different. [..] We interpret new things with the language we learned from existing things. It's interesting to see how typefaces like Helvetica Neue gained popularity in Japan, a country and culture that in the last century stood for discipline, strictness, but also beauty and simplicity in design and architecture. But it was used for English words, an inspill of Western influenced cultural elements, or the Japanese interpretation of those elements. Hikari is a font with a Japanese touch. It is primarily a Latin font with no relations to Hiragana, Kanji or Katagana. And yet, the sense for proportions, a strict architecture and its overall feeling transmits a faint memory of Japanese post war culture assimilating and accumulating Western typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eidenbenz designed numerous posters, logos, and Swiss and German bank notes. From 1932 until 1953, he and his brother Reinhold and Willy ran a graphics studio in Basel. From 1955 until 1967, he was art director at the Reemtsma company in Hamburg. Digital revivals:
Pic. MyFonts link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
School in Zürichwhere one can study typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hi
| Hi is the foundry of Swiss type designer Megi Zumstein, b. 1973, together with Claudio Barandun. Megi is the creator of Albis (2005, squarish, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), Dorfbeiz (2009, HI), Idol Stencil (2004, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), V&A-Outline (2003, Graphic Thought Facility). All her typefaces are in the orbit of DIN and VAG Rounded. House faces include New Elante (2007), Roxy (2008), and Countdown (2008, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ian Party
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Idealphabet
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In 1992, Manfred Klein made Tokay-MK after one of Reiner's ideas. In 2004, he added VariationsForImre, a playful face based on Reiner's lettering, and this was followed in 2005 by Magyarish. Reiner wrote several books, including Modern and Historical Typography An Illustrated Guide (1946, Paul A. Struck, New York, and 1948, Zollikofer and Comp., St. Gallen). | |
in the habit
| Design firm of Tiziana Haug, a Swiss designer who lives in New York. Tiziana has made some custom type such as Typographica (2001, a circle and crosshair dingbat face) and a folded paper-theme alphabet font in 2007 called ADC Paper Expo. Other faces: Built (2005), Home Sweet Home (2005, stitching face), Trace (2004, Neon light simulation). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ingrama
| Defunct foundry in Vevey (Switzerland) which produced Raleigh (1977, now a Bitstream font family) and Seagull (1978, Adrian Williams, Bob McGrath; now also a Bitstream font). Raleigh's story as told by MyFonts.com: Started by Carl Dair. After Dair's death, David Anderson redrew the design for Typsettra, where it was renamed Raleigh. Adrian Williams at Fonts added three weights as a display series for Conways, while Robert Norton drew the text series. Ingrama was run by Peter Henninger out of Vevey, Switzerland. SoftMaker claims that its art deco family Expressa (1994), its text family Lingwood (1994), its Accolade family, its Leamington roman serif family (based on Adrian Williams' Leamington, 1978), its Pasadena (1994), its Helium RR (1994), its Digital Serial (1994), its square sans family Diamante (1994) and its Casablanca family (1994) were also made by Ingrama. However, Lingwood EF (Elsner&Flake) has a date of 1974 associated with it, so I do not know who made the first Lingwood! [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Zürich-based corporate identity and branding company. Designers of the Telekom corporate fonts Tele Antiqua, Tele Grotesk, Tele Logo. These fonts were done in cooperation with URW++, where you can also purchase them. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Swiss designer. Third prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library for Linotype Belle (1999), a casual script typeface. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Wust is also involved in the Free Tengwar Project: The Free Tengwar Font Project aims at developing a family of general purpose fonts that cover J. R. R. Tolkien's tengwar script and that are compatible with the Unicode standard. [...] Johan Winge's Tengwar Telcontar font already existed previous to this project. Indeed, it has been an important inspiration, aiming at Unicode compatibility in a tengwar font. Johan's joining in has been a giant leap for the Free Tengwar Font Project. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacques Borel
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Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Crux (a gothic bitmap font), Keytype, Frankental (LED simulation), Padsans (dot matrix), Padtype (dot matrix), Multitool (a dingbat font with firemen's tools), Hexagonipus (a kitchen tile font based on lettering on Spitfires), Code. Cofounder of Home Clothing in Switzerland and Canada. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss [T-26] designer of Broken Screen (2004, blackletter pixel face), Diphtong (2003), Blockletter (2009, arched letters), Tivoli (2006, sans family in four styles), Hive (2000, dot matrix face), Ruota (2003, two wheel dingbat fonts), Yr-72 (2000), Jakone (2000, a fantastic techno headline face), DPI (2001, dot matrix font). Home page. MyFonts claims that he was born in Berlin in 1975. View the typefaces of Jakob Straub. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Lausanne-based designer who is working on this triangularly-serifed gothic face (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Leipzig (1902), died in Locarno, Switzerland (1974). Influential German type designer whose typefaces include these:
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Jas Rewkiewicz
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest (which he cofounded in 2002 with Pierre Schmidt&Fritz Menzer while studying at ECAL) who designed these fonts at Font Nest: Wellkrau (pixel face, with Peirre terrier and Aimée Hoving), TGV, Lafrui (a connected lettering font), Plan De Paris (lettering from an old plan of Paris), ScriptedPix (a connected screen font), Rhizompix (a screen font), Pix2x (an experimental screen font), CPC (screen font), Condpix (a screen font), Angula (angular face), Thin Flower, P-Text (sans; with Pierre Terrier), Handled_Matrix (a dirty screen font), Soul&Funk (2002), Russian (2002, a Cyrillic simulation font), After The Rain, mtrxs (with Sylvain Aerni: a dot matrix font), Helveliga (with Fabian Monod and Sylvain Aerni), Jawut OT (with Pierre Terrier, Franz Hoffmann, and Juerg Lehni), Circulaheute, Courrierbitmap. He is a digital editor and designer. With Pierre Schmidt and Fritz Menzer he created Electronest (a company). In 2008, he created the experimental type family Futura Domus. Alternate URL. Currently, Rigaud is a London-based artist, designer, digital editor and technologist producing both design and art work for companies, collectors, and institutions. He has a continuing interest in going beyond the traditional boundaries of the art, business, science and technology fields through hybrid collaborations. His type design blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer and punchcutter, 1580-1658, who has some typefaces named after him. Frantisek Storm writes this: The engraver Jean Jannon ranks among the significant representatives of French typography of the first half of the 17th century. He was born in 1580, apparently in Switzerland. He trained as punch-cutter in Paris. From 1610 he worked in the printing office of the Calvinist Academy in Sedan, where he was awarded the title "Imprimeur de son Excellence et de l'Academie Sédanoise". He began working on his own alphabet in 1615, so that he would not have to order type for his printing office from Paris, Holland and Germany, which at that time was rather difficult. The other reason was that not only the existing type faces, but also the respective punches were rapidly wearing out. Their restoration was extremely painstaking, not to mention the fact that the result would have been just a poor shadow of the original elegance. Thus a new type face came into existence, standing on a traditional basis, but with a life-giving sparkle from its creator. In 1621 Jannon published a Roman type face and italics, derived from the shapes of Garamond's type faces. As late as the start of the 20th century Jannon's type face was mistakenly called Garamond, because it looked like that type face at first sight. Jannon's Early Baroque Roman type face, however, differs from Garamond in contrast and in having grander forms. Jannon's italics rank among the most successful italics of all time ? They are brilliantly cut and elegant. Many of today's Garamond style typefaces are in fact due to Jannon. The headline of this page is set in New G8 (2012, Michael Sharpe), which in turn is a digital descendant of URW Garamond No. 8. Commercial digital typefaces based in Jannon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Benoît Lévy
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Jean-Marc Wettach
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Art director and photographer in Geneva, who created The New Black Typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jessica Tapolcai was born in America, grew up in Switzerland and moved to London to get a BA (hons) s typographic and graphic design at London College of Communication. She created the experimental typeface Picasso (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe Scerri
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Joe Scerri Design
| Joe A. Scerri is a British born Maltese-Australian graphic designer based in Zürich Switzerland. Since graduating with a diploma from Central Metrolpolitan College of Visual Art in Perth Western Australia in 1990, he has worked in publishing, multimedia, advertising and design, both in Sydney and in Basel. For the Spanish magazine Neo2, Joe Scerri created the free experimental dotted line face Kassette (2006). In 2005, he made the experimental face Faena (no download). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Basel-based graphic designer, who created nice typographics for an Aston Martin promotion in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss or Swedish designer of OCR-A (2008), Atari Small (2007), and Beteckna (2007), which is modeled after Paul Renner's Futura. He had help of Gürkan Sengün. Supported by the Free Software Foundation license, it comes in these styles: Beteckna, BetecknaLowerCase, BetecknaLowerCaseBold, BetecknaLowerCaseCondensed, BetecknaLowerCaseItalic, BetecknaSmallCaps. All old links for Mattsson are dead. These include Beteckna, Kernerst, Linuks, ETH, OFL, and Debian. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johann Terrettazz
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Jonas Williamsson (Reala) is the designer associated with Lineto who created Biff (1999, a 3-d face inspired by New York graffiti) and Tablettenschrift (1999, a 3-d blocky face, based on the logo of PEZ candies). Jonas graduated in graphic design and illustration from Konstfack University College of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockholm 1999. He is a founding member of "reala", an art and poetry collective based in Stockholm. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typographer and book designer, b. 1933, Sankt Gallen. After study at the Kunstgewerbeschule St.Gallen, he trained as a compositor with the printer Zollikofer and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich; his education as completed in 1959 in Adrian Frutiger's class at the École Estienne. Since then he has practised as a freelance graphic designer, eventually specializing in book design. In 1979 he co-founded the co-operatively run publishing company VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft St.Gallen, for which much of his book design work has been done. He has taught at the schools at Zurich and then St.Gallen since 1967. His publications include Book Design in Switzerland, "Book Design: Theory and Practice", Detail in typography (Agfa Compugraphic, Wilmington, 1987), Designing Books: Practice and Theory (with Robin Kinross, 1996), "Book typography" (Agfa Compugraphic, Wilmington, 1990), "Jost Hochuli's Alphabugs" (Agfa Compugraphic, Wilmington, 1990), "Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books", Buchgestaltung in der Schweiz, "Kleine Geschichte der geschriebenen Schrift" (Verlag Typophil, St. Gallen, 1991, Agfa Compugraphic-Reihe), Das Detail in der Typographie. Buchstaben, Buchstabenabstand, Wort, Wortabstand, Zeile, Zeilenabstand, Kolumne (Compugraphic Corp., Wilmington, 1987), "Bücher machen. Eine Einführung in die Buchgestaltung, im besonderen in die Buchtypographie" (Compugraphic Corp, Wilmington, 1989). Winner of the Gutenberg Prize in 1999. He is aprt of the type foundry ABC Litera together with Roland Stieger and Jonas Niedermann. at ABC Litera, he designed the sans family Allegra (2011). Earlier in his career, he designed quite a few typefaces, including a Trajan woodcut that served Roland Stieger as model for his typeface Alena (2012). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss co-designer with Urs Lehni and Rafael Koch of Lego (1999) at lineto. He studies in Lausanne. His projects such as Vectorama and Scriptographer combine graphic design with programming. Scriptographer provides a scripting language as an aid to and an extension of Adobe Illustrator. About the Lego font, he writes: "I was not involved in the creation of the font itself. I wrote the lego font creator as a sort of a interactive font specimen for the lineto site. Later, the tool grew to a real little application with eps vector output." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss-American designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for the slab serif face Tourist. He works at MetaDesign in San Francisco. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Grésivaudan valley in France, Julien Gaillardot went to Lausanne to study graphic design at the University of Art & Design Lausanne (Ecal) in Switzerland. He now lives and works in Avignon, France. Designer of PharmaFont (2001) while he was a student at ECAL. Now available as (2007, Optimo). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Julien Mercier
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Swiss type design student at ECAL. Creator of the techno face Kreislauf (OFL, 2010) and Dumbo (OFL, 2010). Some of the typefaces he is working on got started under the direction of Ed Benguiat during Julien's exchange semester at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Not to be confused with the other Swiss type designer called Julien Mercier. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Julmeme
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The foundry is run by Swiss-born Julien Mercier (b. 1983), who works as a graphic designer in Tokyo. YWFT link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
In 2012, he designed Frontage, a layered type system that includes the shadow face Frontage 3D. MyFonts link. Foundry link. You Work For Them link. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During his/her graphic design studies at ECAL, University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland, K. Pensaya created the high-constrast monospace typeface Konsrukt (2012). Finnection (2012) is similar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kai Bernau
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Swiss calligraphy awards with beautiful work by Helga Ladurner, Annikki Rigendinger, Gabriella Garbognani, Annemarie Grunder, and Elisabeth Megnet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Basel in 1930, Gerstner designed Gerstner Programm (1967), Privata, and Gerstner Original (1987, Berthold; see Gerling on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), as well as the Akzidenz-Grotesk family (1962, Berthold) and Akzidenz-Grotesk Buch (see Atkins on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002). In the 1980, he designed a didone for IBM's identity. That typeface is now available from URW++ under the name IBM Bodoni. Gerstner is best known for his eccentricity in design, and his use of equally eccentric type (often Grotesk) to accompany his designs. The designer as programmer Karl Gerstner Review of 5x10 Years of Graphic Design is a book on Gerstner's influence as a designer, edited by Manfred Kröplien Hatje Cantz. He was trained under Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder at the School of Design in Basel. He co-founded the advertising agency GCK which has been responsible for a number of promotional campaigns and corporate identities. His books include Integral Typography (1959), The New Graphic Art (1959), Designing Programs (1963), and Compendium for Literates (1970). In 1972, an entire issue of Typografische Monatsblatter was devoted to Gerstner. Also in 1972, he wrote Kompendium für Alphabeten (last edition: 2000, Verlag Niggli AG). BERTLib now sells his KG Privata and KG Vera type families (Vera is a new name). Berthold markets his extensive sans family Gerstner Next (2007, with Dieter Hofrichter), which is based on Gerstner Original BQ (1987). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer at RGB107,6 of the handwriting font Omen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer of Teacher's Pet (2008), a kid's handwriting font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Khmercenter
| Free Khmer Unicode/Opentype fonts by Chhun Keo, dated 2004: Khmer-Tonlesap, Khmerbattembang-704, Khmertakeo-A705, Krong-Phnompenh. In 2008, he added Ang DaunKeo, Ang DaunPov, Anf Daunsok, Ang DaunTeav, Ang DaunTep, Ang TaPich, Ang Taso, Ang Tasom. He is somehow associated with the Khmer Culture Center in Switzerland. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kiwi (1998) is a family of type 1 fonts that used to be available at this Swiss company. At the parent directory, we could find the FlumRoc fonts. All that seems to be gone now. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kimou Meyer
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Kinobrand Design
| Nelio Barros is part of Kinobrand Design in Geneva (and now Lausanne). While they are mostly occupied with graphic and brand design in general, they found the time in December 2011 to design a geometric monoline fashion mag family called Nixin. Typophile link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Kombinat Typefounders
| This Dutch-Swiss foundry (est. 2001) offers interesting font families: Feisar (Paul van der Laan), N&M Hornet (Neeser+Müller), N&M Punkt Schrift (Neeser+Müller), Blocker, InterPol, InterSerif, InterForm (dingbats), H-Stamps, Tieshy, Bubblejet on Steroids, Plantijn (Legib, Legib Small Caps, B-Form, Paradox), and Kugelkopf Letter. Another designer is Hannes Famira, who founded Kombinat. The initial crew also contained Martijn Rijven, but his name is longer there. The current team in 2012 includes Martin Wenzel, Thomas Lehner and Roland Dill. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kontour
| Swiss designer Sibylle Hagmann (b. 1965) runs Kontour, est. 2000. With a BFA in 1989 from the Basel School of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia in 1996, she became art director of the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles, and she is now working as a designer and art director for institutional publications and she teaches at the University of Houston in the graphic communications program. Cholla won at Bukvaraz 2001. She also won an award at Granshan 2008. She designed these typefaces:
CV. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Behance link. Interview by MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
The Group Scout La Roselière (Switzerland) created a free TrueType Morse font and a free hieroglyphs (sic) font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Laika
| Based in Bern, Nicolas Kunz and Michael Flückiger developed the multiparameter family Laika in 2009. It has five parameters, italic angle, weight, serif radius (at the heel), serif length, and contrast. A fun applet lets you play with this multiple master font in the five-dimensional space. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lars Müller edited the book HELVETICA---Homage to a typeface (Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, Swtzerland, 2002). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Laurence Jaccottet works at //copy// in Lausanne. Laurence Jaccottet and Niels Wehrspann are the designers of the inline AGIP font (2001) based on the logo of AgipPetroli, digitized for the book "Benzin: Junge Schweitzer Graphik". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Lineto of fonts such as Pez, a block letter font (1999). He lives and works in London, after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss-born London-based designer at Lineto of Akkurat (2004), a 3-weight sans family (Leicht, Normal, fett). He also made Circular (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Workshop held in Lausanne in December 2005, in which Porchez supervised the development of three typefaces, Bussigny, Ligats and Regina (modular). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type workshop held on November 17, 2007 in Lugano. Speakers: Andreu Balius, Patrick Thomas, Alessandro Segalini, Tarek Atrissi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letterwerk
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His (free) fonts: Mister Pix&Junior (2004, pixel font), BlackPearl (2005, not finished), Jungle (2005, experimental) and Kreuzfahrt (2005, religious dingbats). His Nomad (2006, a sans family) and Carrosserie (2009, a display sans influenced by the 1930s; in 2011, new styles were added) are not free. Carrosserie showcased. His main work in 2012 is the six-layer stacking display family Modular Roman and Slab. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
lineto
| Since 1994, Swiss type designer Cornel Windlin (b. 1964, Küsnacht) heads "lineto" in Zürich, with Stephan "Pronto" Mueller. He made these typefaces:
FontFont write-up. Fonts by designers. The Lineto collection has many beautiful trend-setting digital-look typewriter faces. From other designers:
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Lionel Bovet
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Swiss logo type service outfit located in Winterthur. Makes truetype fonts for money. Free demo font Logo (1997). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lorenz Lopetz Gianfreda
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Lorenz Lopetz Gianfreda
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Lorenzo Geiger
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Lorenzo Geiger Typewerk
| Swiss designer who made the commercial families Bastard (6-weight grotesk), Dinomono (typewriter, monospaced) and Trans-Am (octagonal). Born in 1982 in Bern, Geiger studied visual communication at the BFH Haute Ecole des Arts de Berne from 2002-2007 and did an internship with Philippe Apeloig in Paris. He works in Bern. MyFonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Swiss graphic designer in Lugano. Creator of these alphabets in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Vissole, Switzerland, who created the free painted display typeface Huis Clos (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lucius Hartmann
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Swiss typographer and graphic designer who creates new typefaces out of old ones. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zug, Switzerland-based designer of the brush face Blemished (2008), the ornamental caps face Polar Shift (2010), the didone stencil face Femoralis (2010), and the hand-printed typeface Camille Javal (2012, named after Brigitte Bardot in Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard). Fontsy link. Home page for his illustrations and graphic design. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lukas Schiltknecht (was: Lucas Gardener) is a designer from St. Gallen, Switzerland, b. 1982. He created the blackletter face Helvedding (2009), the graffiti face Hinterwelt (2011), Goodwill (2011), Malice (2011, more graffiti style), and the sans face Phat Otto (2010). Home page. Another home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luvburn
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Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer, b. 1988, Fläsch, Switzerland. He created the vernacular all caps wall paint face Valparíso (2010, Volcano). At the Hochschule der Künste Bern, he designed the angular family Rijeka (2011, Volcano), the sans family Buenos Aires (2011), and the multilayer family Lisboa (2011). Luzi made the sans typeface Cadiz in 2013. Klingspor link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at burodestruct in Bern of Stereotype (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maelle Keita
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Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Norm is a graphic design studio in Zürich, run by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs. They designed Simple (2000), Normetica (1999, a monospace font family) and Prima (1999) at Lineto. Regular (1999, Binnenland) was also done with Dimitri Bruni, but extended later by Nik Thoenen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance Swiss designer (b. Bern, 1978) who graduated in 2004 in visual communication from the Hochschule de Künste in Bern. Creator of the typefaces 3x3-block, 3x3-flat, 3x3-italic, 3x3-outline, 3x3 (2001) and Rotor (2003, sans). He also made Radion (2006), a minimalist futuristic typeface. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Dalton Maag in 2007, he codesigned Kings Caslon with Ron Carpenter. In 2010, that was followed by Aller Typo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer (b. Zürich, 1961) of the successful sans serif families Linotype Mano (1988) and Linotype Veto (1994). He works as an artist in Zürich. Now, Mano really is Avantis BQ, and Veto is a replica of Evo BQ, both Berthold fonts, but Marco does not wish to be associated in any way with Berthold any further, hence the switch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Cofounder with Valentin Hindermann of the design bureau Elektrosmog in Zürich. They designed Storno (1999) at lineto. Still at lineto, with Philippe Desarzens, they published LL Brauer Neue in 2000, based on a design by Pierre Miedinger. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mark Jamra
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Markus Ernst
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Markus Ernst
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Markus Ernst Typografischer Gestalter
| Swiss graphic and type designer Markus Ernst did an internship with Bruno Maag in London in 2003, and set up Artoftype, where he created Screenhorn (free pixel face), 1873 (free eroded face), Deep Space (2002, URW, writing that aliens would use?), Sepultura ((2003, URW, gravestone writing?), and Courier-Variationen. He also made corporate type for K-Tipp and Blick. Ernst is based in Zürich. URW++ link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in 1925, died in 2008. Former president of ATypI who was also a board member of a Swiss chocolate company. Unknown to most, he supported many ATypI meetings privately, behind the scenes. I quote a text written by Erich Alb in 2008 which describes part of the history of ATypI: [...] There was never an official language [at ATypI]. But since it was a Swiss based society/association with international focus it was clear and normal, language would be English, French and German. I have a programm from the Budapest congress 1992 in hand, which is printed both in english and German. - Lectures and the General Meeting in the Annual Congress was mostly in english, and has been simultaniously (!!) translated by Gertraude Benöhr, Secretary for Walter Greisner at Stempel Foundry (she worked later in the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft Mainz for decades). I remember in the 70's, when John Dreyfus organized lectures and speaking in the General Assembly, he did that in english and french himself. This was the same when Martin Fehle (also a former President) organized the Meetings. - During the Paris congress mid 80's we all visited the National Museum, when I was translating infos from the guide simultaneously into English and German. Big changes came with Type'90, when a huge load of Americans attended the congress, and from then on suddenly english became the "official language". From that year onwards no translations were done anymore. (Occasionally some professsional simultan-translators have been organized like at Rome, but this has cost a fortune). Sponsoring: It never has been said in public, that prior to Type'90 mostly Type foundries (Haas'sche, Linotype, Agfa et.al) paid/sponsored the congress, and reasonable congress fees were payable by some 100 to 150 attendees. The financer and Board member of a Swiss chocolate company, Mr Fehle, was sponsoring congress' to a large amount from his own pocket, when Foundries closed one after the other. Fehle never wanted people to know that he was helping out, but by being quiet it probably led many guys to think, that the type companies were paying for all of ATypI. Only insiders knew the truth. And that gave a false perspective to the new people taking over ATypI about how the finances were. (BTW: The word "sponsoring" started in late 80's I think, and if one had an idea, he was looking for sponsors first. But earlier we've had an idea and just did it (!), looking afterwards how we maybe could raise some money). Changes came early 90's when the organization needs lots of members to be able to afford fancy conferences. And to get lots of attendees they have to do entertainment ... Earlier Mr Fehle helped bankroll ATypI for many years. An incredible story. But no one knew it (except the Swiss) and so he was treated very rudely. An embarrassment. - Around Christmas '07 his wife died after many years of illness, and Mr Fehle looked after her for a long time. He is now in bad health himself. I always wanted to see him for an interview re early years in ATYPI, but he was too busy as "nurse". I still feel bad for what happened to him at ATypI. That is the reason I'm not member anymore since a few years. Beside that, I didn't like the fancy conferences (in contrast to the serious ones we've had with 100 engaged attendees). After Fehle's death, Alb wrote this to the type board: Mr. Fehle was a very gentle person. He was a long standing member of the Board for Lindt&Sprüngli chocolate company in his home town Kilchberg/Zürich (Switzerland). With his great know how on finance and organisation he was an important consultant. Furthermore he worked for Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Type foundry) for almost 30 years, being responsible for the whole licening business and financial consulting. For about 8 years he was President of ATypI end of 80s to early 1990s. He spoke German/French/English, but his English was a bit funny to listen. American members (many joining because of Type 87 and Type90) did not take him seriously and got a bit suspicious who Fehle was. Martin Fehle had been generously financing ATypI. He organized with his close friend Alfred Hoffmann the congress at Basle which was mainly sponsored by Fehle, but also many congresses have been paid by Martin Fehle - probably not many knew that. He wasn't the man to make a big fuss about his own public relation. Sadly he never was accepted much at ATypI, but his big involvement was for Sprüngli chocolate, Haas'sche, and also for the liberal Party in his home town. At his time for ATypI the organization seemed sclerotic and he got voted out. The old board probably never believed they would be booted out. It was a real shame. I have felt very bad for Martin Fehle. He was a great man, very important for ATypI. I was going to visit him last summer but he was ill. I will miss him - he was one of those great sample of the "old generation". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Geneva, he created the (serifed) Nelly family as a student at KABK. He writes: I wanted a simple typotoolbox with only a few cuts and substantial differences between them. The initial family tree contained 4 cuts: Text, Italic, Bold&Display (later dropped due to time). Nelly, as a small type family, also explores the boundaries of unity. [...] I felt strongly attached to an elegant high contrast, even for a text typeface. I chose to draw according to my fantasies without following a design concept of style evolution from cut to cut. For example, I started the Text cut with a transitional contrast, concerned with legibility issues. Along the road, encouraged by my classmates, I decided to choose a "strict" pointed pen contrast because of the fun I had writing with it. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Ligatura Regular (2004) and Ligatura Expert (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer. He created the serifed text face Florin (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matthieu Cortat
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Influential Swiss graphic designer, painter and architect, b. 1908, Winterthur. Designer of Bill (1949-1950, geometric) and ArchiType Bill. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer and calligrapher, born in Winterthur in 1916. He died in 2004. Designer of Columna (Bauersche Giesserei, 1952-1955, originally a private face of the Benteli publishing house in Switzerland; revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli, and in 2011 by URW), a slightly-serifed roman capitals face. His teachers included Jan Tschichold and Imre Reiner. Trained as a compositor (1932-1936), het set some jobs from 1936-1943. In 1941-1942, he taught typography at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basle, and was art director of the Benteli printing works in Bern from 1943-1962. From 1962-1981, he was head of the graphics department and typography teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich He consulted on type design for IBM in New York from 1962-1966, for the Bauersche Gießerei in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1966, and for the Dr. Rudolf Hell company in Kiel from 1972-1989. He worked as type consultant at Adobe since from 1990. Adobe published Caflisch Script (designed by Robert Slimbach). Columna is available from Elsner&Flake (as ColumnaEF), Linotype and URW. Linotype bio. Max Caflisch, Albert Kapr, Antonia Weiss and Hans Peter Willberg published F.H.Ernst Schneidler Schriftentwerfer, Lehrer, Kalligraph (SchumacherGebler a.o., München, 2002). This publication was thoroughly mangled by SchumacherGebler, to the dismay of Caflisch. This story was written up in "Die Chronologie der Schneidler-Monographie 1985-2002: Die 16 Jahredauernde, mühselige Entstehungsgeschichte" (Max Caflisch, 2002, Theo Leuthold Press). Other publications include: "William Morris, der Erneuerer der Buchkunst", Bern 1959; "Kleines Spiel mit Ornamenten", Angelus-Druck, Bern, 1965; "Fakten zur Schriftgeschichte", Zürich1973; "Schrift und Papier", Grellingen 1973; "Typography braucht Schrift", Kiel 1978. A Berlincourt et al "Max Caflisch. Typographia practica", Hamburg 1988. MyFonts page. Rudolf Bosshard's article about Caflisch's life (Comedia, 2004, vol. 2). Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer of Profil (Haas, 1946-1947, with his brother Eugen Lenz). Associated in the late 40s and 50s with Haas. Profil is a set of inclined rimmed capitals and numbers. Profil became Decorated 035 at Biststream. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer, born and died in Zürich, 1910-1980. His typefaces, all produced for the Haas Foundry in Basel, Switzerland:
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Maxime Buechi
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A free original Christmas font, MaZiSOFT-Christmas (1998). Truetype and type 1. By MaZiSOFT Informatik AG (Solothurn, Switzerland). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker
| German commercial school font outfit. Free demo fonts. The categories: Lateinische Ausgangsschrift, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift, Schulausgangsschrift, Druckschriften, Druckschriften Bayern, Pädagogische Zeichensätze, Zeichensätze für die Mathematik, Weihnachtsfonts, Sekundarfonts, Sekundarfonts. Of the many fonts, here are some made by Manfred Klein: KreuzWort, Norddruck, Sdfett, Vahalb, Veraus, Verfett. Ralf Lohuis (from Hünxe) made these fonts: Adam, Atlas, Bausteine, Blackwhite, Boxquestion, Domino, Eisenbahn, FlaggenABC, Geheim, Guitar, KreuzWort, Lapunkt, Lineatur, MatheRechner, MatheTangram, Meteo, Musik, Norddruck, Nordspur, Saspunkt, Sdfett, Sport, Telegraf, Trainee, Vahalb, VeenPikto, Veraus, Verfett, ZahlenABC. Subpage on school fonts. Christmas fonts made between 1999 and 2002, also by Lohuis: Fichten, Lichterglanz, Osterei, Schnee, Tannen, Verschneit, Weihnacht. Sub-page on Swiss school fonts where one finds CH Schrift 1 through 4, and Stein and Stein 1-Linie, Stein 2-Linie and Stein 4-Linie. At the Austrian school font sub-page, we find Druckschrift and Schulschrift 95. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Medieval Fonts
| Detailed listing of medieval fonts on the web, by Peter Keel (Switzerland), with downloads. Categories:
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Archive of medieval truetype fonts by Peter Keel from Switzerland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Megi Zumstein
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Meik
| A free font by Michael Baumeler with the emblems of the 26 Swiss cantons: Kantonswappen CHFL (1997). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Michael Baumeler
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Zurich-based graphic and web designer, who created the display face Niederdorf (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael Parson
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Graphic design, posters, flyers, logos and type by Michel Casarramona from Zürich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Die Gestalten of Brother (stencil) and T-Star Mono Round (monowidth). In 2002, he coedited Los Logos, a 444 page book of logos (with Robert Klanten and Nicholas Bourquin). In 2007, the typewriter face Generell TW was added. At Binnenland, he has Relevant (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2007; loosely influenced by 'Record Gothic', created by R. Hunter Middleton for the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1927), T-Star Pro, T-Star TW Pro (typewriter face, 2002), Korpus (2012, with Nik Thoenen), and Catalog (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2005). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MilieuGrotesque
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Mirko Humbert
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Modonomat
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In 2012-2013, Grilli Type published their typeface family GT Pressura (with monospaced and proportional versions), which was inspired by type stamped on shipping boxes. GT Pressura was codesigned with Dominik Huber. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Monaco Grafico
| Zürich-based design studio run by Paolo Monaco which created the free cigarette-box inspired font Case (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Monom
| Swiss outfit involved in type design. Run by graphic students at the HGKL, Amadeus Waltenspühl and Dario Hofstetter. They made 100 free truetype/opentype fonts: 001_monograf, 002_drei, 003_itchi, 004_tschiipoint, 005_dock, 006_molekular, 007_dart, 008_retne, 009_deuxtrois, 010_spacetab, 011_profil, 012_fumer, 013_sarger, 014_palcode, 015_chemic, 016_password, 017_river, 018_quader, 019_drugs, 020_cageone, 021_kravall, 022_tabs, 023_secret, 024_mops, 025_gitter, 026_a.dur, 027_fugu, 028_setball, 029_mars, 030_meteor, 031_code, 032_norm, 033_moses, 034_nonono, 035_raserblade, 036_rufio, 037_sugus, 038_xenix, 039_trace, 040_pepper, 041_collaps, 042_groove, 043_trickshot, 044_machine, 045_balk, 045_wood, 046_holeinone, 047_RZ, 048_blocktab, 049_raffel, 050_plaid, 051_bensen, 052_sargo, 053_window, 054_shavetab, 055_ruine, 056_dotsperinch, 057_amenon, 058_ment, 059_darttwo, 060_pointless, 061_skyline, 062_fett, 063_core, 064_enter, 065_arche, 066_screendesign, 067_chemicout, 068_b.dur, 069_korn, 070_salzstreuer, 071_archrune, 072_minim, 073_elloco, 074_opera, 075_fatcap, 076_flash, 077_manson, 078_upper, 079_render, 080_etage, 081_invader, 082_sagur, 083_korsett, 084_nagasaki, 085_mugge, 086_read, 087_macro, 088_amenam, 089_roomate, 090_worms, 091_wirbel, 092_please, 093_keyboard, 094_actop, 095_pina, 096_m.1280, 097_c.dur, 098_bens, 099_insider, 100_cagetwo. These are mostly pixel fonts, or basic shapes for ornaments. None of them are complete, but that is not the point---they are experimental. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
MyFonts selection for Adrian Frutiger. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces that implement Haas Grotesk, or are derived from it. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyFonts lists the most popular Swiss style typefaces. A longer list of Swiss typefaces. Most of these are Helvetica clones, but there are also a few typefaces merely made by Swiss type designers. Even so, most of them only designed cold-blooded sans typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyScriptFont
| Maybe the third try is the good one. Fontifier and Fontcapture were two free font services in which scanned alphabets could be converted instantly into truetype fonts. Both went commercial after a short trial period. Now, in October 2010, we have another taker, MyScriptFont, which was developed by T. Reinhardt in Switzerland. It uses Fontforge for part of the work. I tried it out, and it first failed for me, returning an empty file. Then it worked but cut off some letters and had problems with letter spacing. I guess one can train oneself to make this tool useful. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nadia Knechtle
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Designer of BD Fimo (2007, Burodestruct) in regular and outline versions. Free fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nathalie Stotzer
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Nelio Barros
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Nico Inosanto
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Nicolas Eigenheer grew up on the shores of Lac Neuchatel. He graduated from the University of Art&Design Lausanne (ECAL) in Visual Communications. He works as a graphic and type designer in Switzerland. He created the slab titling face Material (2006, Optimo). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nicolas Kunz
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Niels Wehrspann works at //copy// in Lausanne. He designed Ingenieur (1998), a geometric face, and Rubdown (1999, 6 weights), digitized from a transfer sheet. The latter font was revamped as Gravostyle Basic (2007, Optimo), a VAG Rounded relative. Laurence Jaccottet and Wehrspann are the designers of the inline AGIP font (2001) based on the logo of AgipPetroli, digitized for the book "Benzin: Junge Schweitzer Graphik". Niels Wehrspann is the co-founder of Schönwehrs (Schönherwehrs) design studio in Geneva. He studied graphic design at the University of Art&Design Lausanne (Ecal). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nik Thoenen
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Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2010, she and Hrant Papazian set up Armenotype. In 2011, Nina published FF Ernestine (extensions by Hrant Papazian), and writes: FF Ernestine was born from the search for a versatile monoline text typeface that would feel warm yet serious, feminine yet rigid, charming yet sturdy. Its rather large x-height and wide, open shapes enable it to work well down to small sizes; ligatures, stylistic and contextual alternates, a selection of arrows, and two sizes of small caps enrich its typographic palette. Nina Stössinger first drew the Roman as a study project at the postgraduate Type Design programme in Zurich, and the Italic in dialogue with Hrant Papazian's Armenian design. Both the Roman and the Italic (which doubles as a harmonious companion to the Armenian component) are available in four individually drawn weights. In 2013, she published the free dotted typeface Sélavy together with Paul Soulellis: Sélavy is the result of a serendipitous collaboration with Paul Soulellis. For his project Library of the Printed Web, Paul was looking for a dotted typeface reminiscent of the punched-out caps on Marcel Duchamp's 1934 Green Box. As he could not find a typeface close enough, I [Nina] was spontaneously tempted to make one. This is it. Sélavy (named after Duchamp's pseudonym Rrose Sélavy) is a dotted typeface that does not follow a non-dotted model. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Nonpareille (or: Chastellun.net)
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Designer of Bentham (transitional), Bonesana (2009, Gestalten, an elegant text family straight out of the 18th century), Brett (2004, a rounded pixel face), Chastelmail (a modification of ITC Officina), Ecstrat (ornamental 18th century type), Fairplay (transitional newspaper face), Glovis (a monospaced italic typewriter face), Hans (a Koch-style blackletter), Liberté, Tartan, Monolith, and Stockmar (2007, Optimo), a 12-style baroque family inspired by by Johann Rudolf Genath II (1679-1740). At Nonpareille, he designed Stuart Pro and Stuart Standard in 2008. These text type families come in 18 styles each, and have three optical choices for the ranges below 8pt, 8-12 pt and above 12pt. Ainsifont carries Brett, Ecstrat and Glovis. In 2009-2010, he made Bonesana and Ecstrat (an ornamental face in the style of Fournier and/or Rosart). Typefaces from 2013:
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Nootype
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Fitigraf (2013) is a mix between a classical serif font and graffiti street art. Agilis (2013) is a free text typeface with bulging glyphs. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Norm
| Norm is a graphic design studio in Zürich, run by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs. They designed Replica (2008, a strictly gridded sans family), Simple (2000, a monospaced font family), Normetica (1999, a monospace font family), Purple (2006, a didone family) and Prima (1999) at lineto. They also made the monospace font Tetra B (1999). Regular (1999, Binnenland) was also done with Manuel Krebs, and extended later by Nik Thoenen. Corporate typefaces by Norm include Omega and Swatch. Klingspor link. Typedia link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bern-based screen font producers and media lab. Free pixel fonts, all made in 2001: fiftyfox, importer, screenfox9, spotdot, zedfoxin, zedfoxout. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nouvelle Noire
| Type and graphic design studio in Zurich, run by Clovis Vallois and Anton Studer. Clovis Vallois (b. Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris) graduated in 2006 after studying visual communication in Freiburg, Germany. He worked for six months at the Studio Philippe Apeloig in Paris and subsequently set up his own design business. Clovis continued his studies in type design at the Zurich University of the Arts and graduated in 2008. Since then he has been working part-time at the Zurich University of the Arts while is running his design studio. In 2009 he was awarded with the Tokyo Type Directors Club 'Prize Nominee Work' for the Unknown Alphabet poster. Anton Studer (b. Zürich, Switzerland) graduated as a graphic designer in 2006 and has since been working in the field of visual communication and type design. Anton Studer teaches part time at the Zurich University of the Arts in Zurich and at the Swiss college of textiles in Wattwil. He is the founding member of the Atelier Bubentraum which is an interdisciplinary design collective. Besides working extensively on several experimental font projects he has also worked on typeface projects with André Baldinger in Paris and developed the font Frank which is available at die Gestalten in Berlin and the Archiv Family which won Bronze at the European Design Award in Rotterdam in 2010. Anton was also awarded the Tokyo Type Directors Club 'Prize Nominee Work' for the Archiv typeface he created. The Nouvelle Noire typefaces:
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OCR-B: Adobe
| Adobe's version of OCR-B, which was originally designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1966 for the European Computer Manufacturer's Association. It is rounded and easier to read than the rounded octagonal OCR-A font, which was designed for machine readability. OCR-B is ugly, malformed and quite useless nowadays. Quoting Linotype: Additional acclaim came after Frutiger was approached to come up with a more pleasing design for the optical character recognition typefaces used for computers. The result was OCR-B, which became the worldwide standard in 1973. Quoting Spiekernmann: The work was commissioned by the European Computer Manufacturers Association ECMA in Geneva. They didn't want to adapt OCR A, which was already used in the USA. Frutiger's job was to make a machine-readable type that was acceptable to the human eye as well. He started in 1963 and designed it on a finer grid than OCR A with its 5x9 squares. Apart from the font for machines he also designed a version for letterpress printing that had lower case characters and subtle stroke variations. The original OCR B was monospaced and had round stroke endings. The second version was proportional and had straight stroke endings. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Oliver Schneebeli (b. 1969, Lugano, Switzerland) studied graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in Lugano (1990-1992) and sociology at the University of Lausanne UNIL (1993-1995). In 1999 he became an independent designer in the collective Strates photographers in Lausanne. From 2006 to 2009, he designed and created graphics for the Swiss cultural and social environment. Behance link. In 2008, he dipped his toes in FontStruct as rasmusolli, and created AggloTypoA, ErvibismeTypoG, IconTypoA, and ErvibismeTypoF. Extremely iconic and geometric, his letters could be icons, and his icons could be letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss site with these free techno fonts, all made in 2003: Break, Buster, Eva, Fatt, Liner, Quer, Quadrron, Racer, Round, Subby, Tektrron-Regular, Tv, Zone-Regular. Direct download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Optimo
| Optimo is a Lausanne-based foundry established in 1997 by Stéphane Delgado, Gilles Gavillet and David Rust: Aerial, Chip, Flexo MM (1998, David Rust), Circuit (2002, David Rust; on the CD in Nathan Gale's type 1 book), Didot Elder (2004, a true revival of a family by Pierre Didot, 1819; it has devil-tailed S's and is similar in many places to Porchez's Ambroise. It was designed by François Rappo), Kornkuh, Nova MM, Steiner, Autologic, Detroit MM (1997), Kabin, Normal, 2000, Optimal (a kitchen tile font), Politics (squarish face by Gilles Gavillet), Montana (stencil by Gilles Gavillet), CEO (typewriter style by Rappo), Veglia, Zero. Most fonts are futuristic or experimental, with a few sans serif fonts thrown in at well. Interesting web page, which in 2003 stopped being accessible to many browsers (UNIX people can never get in, for example). In 2003, David Rust and Gilles Gavillet co-designed Cargo (stencil), Hermes (typewriter type), Index and Politics. In 2006, Philipp Herrmann created the slab serif face Piek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typefounders in Zürich since the mid 18th century. One of its founders was the artist Johann Caspar Füssli, 1706-1782. Their work can be found in Épreuves des caracteres de la fonderie de Orell, Gessner, Fueslin&compagnie. A Zuric (Zurich, 1781). This book already shows some didone influences, but its main typefaces are all Fraktur, with sizes in Sabon, Grosze Missal, Kleine Misaal, Grosze Canon, Kleine Canon, Mignone, Garmond and Petit. It offered a Garmond Schwabacher too. The company still exists today, and specializes in cartography as Orell FüssliKartographie AG. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ormaxx Fonts
| Free PCF and BDF format bitmap fonts (2000-2002) by Swiss Roland Buehlmann, designed for UNIX/LINUX systems. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss lithographer and poster designer, 1889-1961. Several of his posters influenced digital typefaces:
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Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)
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The fonts (grouped under the name PIXymbols) include ADA symbols v.2.0, Africa, Alphabox, Alphacircle, Ameslan (ASL), Antorff (blackletter), Antorff Fractions, Apothecary, Arrows, Astrology, Backstitch, Boxkey, BoxNLines, Braille grade 2, Casual, Chalk Casual, PIXymbols Chess, Command Key, Courex (typewriter family), Crossword, PIXymbols Deco Glass (2001), Digit&Clocks (+LED symbols), Dingbats&Online, DOSScreen, Fabric Care, FARmarks (Federal Aviation Regulations lettering), Flagman (semaphore), Fractions, Gridmaker, Highway Gothic (U.S. Department of Transportation's Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs), PIXymbols Highway Gothic 2002, Highway Signs (U.S. Department of Transportation), Hospital&Safety, LCD, Linea (2002, prismatic), Luna, Malkoff (calligraphic font), Marina, Meeting, Mejicana (2001, a Mexican party font), Menufonts, Morse, Musica (instruments), Newsdots, Orchestra, Passkey, Patchwork, PCx, Phone, PIXymbolsMusica, Prescott (2001, Western), Penman (2001, connected script), PrimerD (letters with lines), Recycle, Roadsigns, Shadowkey, Signet (family), Signet Shadow, Squared, Strings, Stylekey, Tolerances&Datum, Travel&Hotel, TV List, Unikey, US Map, Vershen (2001), Xcharting, Xstitch. They also sell EPS files of all Arms of Swiss cantons, and many nice initial caps. Look also for Faux Hebrew (simulated Hebrew), as part of the Faux package that also includes Faux Sanskrit, Faux Runic, Faux Hebrew, Faux Japanese, Faux Arabic, Faux Chinese and Faux Chinese Sans. Alternate URL. Previews at MyFonts. Klingspor link. View the Page Studio Graphics typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Paolo Monaco
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Swiss designer of Wash (2011): Each letter was drawn onto a glass plate which layed on my scanner, after scanning each letter I cut them free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Pedro Julien
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Born in Basel in 1940, Peter Bartl taught typography, graphic design, photography and computer graphics at the University of Alberta. He retired in British Columbia, where he and Jane Merks run PB+J Press. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Henninger
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Peter Keel
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Swiss type designer and teacher (b. Basel, 1944). Since 1989, he heads the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in Nancy. Before that, he ran type courses at ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris (1969), had his own studio in Paris (1970), taught courses at ESAG (École supérieure d'Arts Graphiques) in Paris (1972), and worked as a type consultant for Roger Tallon in Paris (1974). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Korsman
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Swiss designer of the hand-printed typeface Retep Relleum (2013, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Vollenweider
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Swiss designer who is now at the University of Plymouth. In 2013, he created the paperclip typeface Ride The Line, the octagonal typeface Link, and the stencil typeface Vertizona. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator (b. Münich, Germany) of a great blackletter face called Diek while he was studying at the Hochshshule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zürich. Designer at Optimo of the playing cards slab serif font Piek (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typographer and author, b. 1966, Schaffhausen. Coeditor with Heidrun Osterer of Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces The Complete Works (2009, Birkhäuser). Creator in 1995 of PhonogrammeF (Feinherb, Visuelle Gestaltung). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zürich-based French designer at Optimo of Editor (2005), modeled after the Swiss typewriter brand Hermes. Creator at Lineto of the stencil face Le Corbusier. With Marco Walser of Elektrosmog, he worked on the six weights of LL Brauer Neue (1999-2006), after and original typeface called Brauer by Pierre Miedinger, nephew of Max Miedinger, who created it in 1974 for the Züriuch-based brewery called Brauerei. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer in Basel and/or Aarau of Eva (2011, sans) and Franks (2012, monoline geometric sans). At Ten Dollar Fonts, one can buy Rosco & Salvia (2013). Dafont link. Devian tart link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nephew of Max Miedinger, the creator of Helvetica. He co-designed Brauer at Elektrosmog, a design studio in Zürich, run by Valentin Hindermann and Marco Walser. Brauer was published by lineto. This was later developed into the six weights of LL Brauer Neue by Marco Walser and Philippe Desarzens. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pierre Terrier
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Jawut (2002, with Franz Hoffman, Juerg Lehni, and Jérôme Rigaud: a face inspired by André Baldinger's Newut), WellKrau (with Jérôme Rigaud: an irregularly tiled font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pirol
| Pirol is a graphic design studio in Zurich, run by Simone farner and Lea Schmidt. Simone designed the grotesk typeface Alpina PRL in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pixelfarm
| Swiss outfit run by a group of five out of Bern. Type design is done by Simon Küffer. I can't find any fonts on their home page, but you can always try here: Pixelfarm Pets (2005, free). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pyroglyphix
| Daniel Bär (Pyroglyphix) is a talented Swiss designer in Lausanne. Type subpage. Creator of the monoline grotesk face GT Skeletor (2009, Grilli Type). This face can be stretched and compressed at will without losing its effectiveness. While studying at ECAL in Lausanne, he made the gorgeous fat didone display face Pyrose (2008), the all caps sans headline face Pyroplastic (+Fat). At ECAL in 2010, he made the Bauhaus-inspired PYROhbau (a scripted font system based on a skeleton). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Quersicht
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Radis Noir
| Gaël Goy is a student at the Ecole Romande d'Art et de Communication in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the creator of the free art deco face Radis Sans (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Codesigner with Urs and Juerg Lehni (from Switzerland) of Lego (1999) at lineto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ralf Lohuis
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Ralf Turtschi
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Ralf Turtschi
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Designer in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, who created an origami typeface for the Rioskilde Festival in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rechenzentrum Universität Zürich
| PostScript information and sample programs at RZU. Site by Peter Vollenweider with a ton of information. There is a crash course on Bezier curves, a type 1 version of Frutiger 47, and a random type 3 font, with line by line explanations. In German. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fictitious Swiss designer and type designer whose fonts, Chalet New York, Chalet Tokyo, Chalet Paris, Chalet London, and Chalet Comprimé (2002) are offered at House Industries. The Chalet persona was invented by the good people at House Industries as a marketing ploy (chalet means house in French). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
René Etienne Keller
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René Wanner
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Designer at Folch Studio (Barcelona) of FS Ugly Italic (2008, with Miquel Polidano). Grotesk cc is Tobias Rechsteiner, Reto Moser, and Simon Renfer in Bern, Switzerland. The former two designed GT Haptik (2009), which is a grotesk face in which the letters are optimized to be read blindfolded and by touching them. GT Haptik was published at Grilli Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
RGB is Radio Galibasel. The site carried DIE GUTE FUER ALLE font collection by Fidel Peugeot (Vienna), Karl Rottweiler (Basel), Peggy Boon, Robi Watt, Hermine Demoriane, Quentin Magnus, Christian Anders, Betti Sauter, Feit F. Stauffer, Nadja Z, Cosima v. Gestern and the RGB107,6 crew (Vienna-based outfit): nice handwriting fonts for general use. It seemed like it was a free collection, but the download page was not operational. All this is moot now, as the original font site disappeared. The list of typefaces: Omen (Karl Rottweiler) is great, Gabel (by Fidel Peugeot) is a grunge font, Stukkie (by Peggy Boon) is normal handwriting, Ling (by Fidel Peugeot) is curly handwriting, Cuisinette (by Hermine Demoriane) is childish handwriting, Kanguruh (by Robi Watt) is hurried, HerrKlee (by Fidel Peugeot) is for graffiti, Mokka (by Fidel Peugeot) is for 8-year olds, the Waldmeister family (by Veit F. Stauffer) is for writing with chalk on trees, Sticker (by Christian Anders) is a disaster, Quentin Magnus der Wilde (by Fidel Peugeot) is so-so, Pirona (by Babette) is open and inviting hand-titling, BettisHand (by Betti Sauter) and Dr. R (by Dr. R) are regular handwriting fonts, Erdbeere (by Cosima von Gestern) is a doodling food-based dingbat font, Nadja's Trolle is so-so, and Trompete is Fidel Peugeot's Trumpet dingbat font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typographer who spoke at the Typocircle in London about Cuban typography on January 23, 2003. Author of Satztechnik und Typografie (GDP Verlag, coauthored with Christine Graber, Renata Minoretti, Martin Sommer), and Plakatkunst der kubanischen Revolution (RiFri-Edition). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss graphic arts icon, b. Zürich (1902), d. 1988. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss communication designer based in Zürich. In 2009, he created the simple sans face Kiosk. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio in Balerna, Switzerland. Designers of the custom Eascher-style impossible typeface Utopia / Utopie [never mind that Utopia already exists as a name of an Adobe typeface] as part of an overall graphic system and identity for Eventi Letterari---a festival of Literary Events in Monte Verità in Ticino. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roger Hersch
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Roger Vershen
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Roland Buehlmann
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Password Hamburgefonstiv. Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Switzerland, he created the connected signwriter script face Caballero as a student at KABK. He also did a revival of Pierpont's Horley Old Style. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roland Liechti
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Roland Stieger
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Rollergirl
| Swiss outfit now located in Amsterdam, est. 2003 by Jacques Borel and Harry Bloch, two Swiss graphic designers who graduated from ECAL, the University of Art and Design, Lausanne. At Fontnest, one can ogle their font creations: Pink (semi-stencil), Planp (Swiss sans), Franks (rounded sans headline), and Rudolf (rounded sans with fill-in bowls). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Geneva, who created the squarish display typeface Konstom in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2013, he designed a wonderful hand-drawn Chinese typeface, Laowai Song. It has over 28,000 Chinese ideographs, supported by a perfectly matched hand-drawn roman. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at the Braunschweig University of Art, and is a member of the Multilingual Typography Research Group at the Geneva University of Art and Design. Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong on multicultural typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Lausanne, Switzerland-based designer of Wrong Typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer. Author of "The Printer's Terms", designed by Jan Tschichold. And of Technical Terms of the Printing Industry (5th edition was printed in 1995) and Type: eine Auswahl guter Drucktypen; 80 Alphabete klassischer und moderner Schriften (Teufen, Ausser-Rhoden: Niggli, 1958). He also wrote "Type: A Selection of Types" (1949, fgm books, R. Hostettler, E. Kopley, H. Strehler Publ., St. Gallen and London) in which he highlights type made by European houses such as Haas, Enschedé, Deberny and Nebiolo. Jost Hochuli wrote his biography, Epitaph für Rudolf Hostettler (St. Gallen: Typotron, 1993). Selected shots from his 1949 text. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Comparison between truetype and postscript at Zentrum Informatikdienste of the University of Zürich. Essay on Bezier curves as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer based in Montreal, New York and Bern. Devian Tart link. He created the roundish high-contrast art deco face Artificial Timepiece (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer from Aarau (b. 1986) who used Fontifier to make Sasu's Handwriting (2009), and Scanahand to make FatoftheLand (2009), Initialized (2009, children's hand), Outlines (2009), and Blurry Handwritting (sic) (2009). Outlines (2009) was made with Scanahand. Home page. Dafont link. Alternate URL. Aka Sasu. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss image and type magazine published with the help of B&P Foundry in Lausanne. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Schaffner & Conzelmann AG (or: Designersfactory)
| Basel-based design company, est. 1976, led by Jean-Jacques Schaffner (b. 1954) and Silvana Conzelmann (b. 1955). Silvana Conzelmann studied in Basel with people such as Armin Hofmann, Donald Brun and Hermann Eidenbenz. She has been an illustrator, design studio manager, and type designer. Alternate page. Check out Alphanumerix. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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About 25 TrueType fonts, mostly of the science fiction/Startrek mold. Swiss Startrek site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A box of 180 type cards can be bought from this Swiss company. The instructive set was designed by Richard Frick and Samuel Marty. In German. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A 122-page artcle (PDF file) by Valentin Blank about font protection in Switzerland. Written in 1999 in German, its full title is "Schutz typografischer Schriftzeichen und Schriften im schweizerischen Immaterialguter- und Lauterkeitsrecht". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sébastien Théraulaz
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Sibylle Hagmann
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Graphic Design student in 2012 at the Fachklasse Grafik in Luzern, Switzerland. Creator of the modular typeface Bakelit (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luzern, Switzerland-based graphic designer (b. 1973) who worked with Bosch&Butz in Zollikon, and was art director and principal at Planet in Luzern. He created SeebadLTStd (2003), a family that is part of Linotype's Taketype 5 collection. Creator of Mager (2008), a sans face. Fontsy link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Silvana Conzelmann
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In 2012, he was based in New York City. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Simon Küffer
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Simone Farner
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Graphic designer from Zurich who works in the fields of illustration, lettering and fine arts. He studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule or ETH) in Zurich during three years. He also studied law at the University of Zurich, graduating as a Master of Law, specializing in intellectual property rights. Creator of the simple but quite effective sans caps face Wapo (2011-2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss web site. Using iFontMaker, Sketch created Leaded (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Smart Chess
| Harry Oesch designed a free TrueType chess font that comes with SmartChess. Old link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sokratype
| Lots of original (truetype) fonts by Swiss psychologist Timm Suess, ca. 1997: AScratchedRemix, BarnettDevice, Catwalk, CoercionNaked, CoercionRegular, ContactNeedsDB, Creaminal.TTF DecibelDingbats, DerangedTabloid.TTF ElGoat, Flyman (1997), Glooper, Harvey, HighTide, IGing (horizontally striped), KoCity, MataHari (erased Arnold Boecklin), Naked Monk, Narcotix (1997, futuristic), PointBrackett, QuoVadis, QuoVadisUltrabold, Screeplot, SevenPoints, SevenPointsFAT, Shattered, SickPostman (1997), Strontium90, Strontium99 (1997), ThoughtPolice, ThoughtPoliceunarmed, TouristEater, Ygnorant. Fonts are free for personal non-commercial use, but cost 10 dollars otherwise. Old Sokrates page. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
For 95 Swiss francs, they will make you a handwriting font. Free sample fonts: Mario02 (1999), Rolando02 (1999), Rolando (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at the Lausanne-based foundry Optimo. Designer or co-designer of DetroitMM (1997), Kabin, Kornkuh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Lausanne. He created the experimental face Sulu (2009) while taking a course with Clotilde Olyff. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stefanie Preis
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View Stephan Mueller's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Bern. He created a squarish alphabet called Abdul (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This Swiss outfit sells Opal barcode fonts. Very very expensive. They cover Code 39, Code 128, UCC-128, Code 93, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN/JAN-8, EAN/JAN-13, Codabar, MSI Plessey and PostNet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Subtitude
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MyFonts site. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Susanna Stammbach (b. 1957) runs her own information systems&signage design studio in Basel and teaches at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Luzern, Switzerland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Schweizerische Kalligrafische Gesellschaft. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Peripheral Systems Laboratory develops new software and hardware technology for advanced displays, printing devices, phototypesetters and information servers. They have several pages relating to smooth font technology. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss Legacy
| Swiss Legacy is about Swiss design and Swiss type. The page is run by Xavier Encinas, a French Art Director who lives in Paris. He is also known as Rumbero Design. In 2000, he started business school studies at l'Institut Supérieur du Commerce. Since 2004, he works as a freelance Art Director specializing in print, logotype and web design. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss Miss
| Design blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg (Switzerland&New York City). Has subpages on type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Comprehensive pages on 20th century Swiss type design, compiled in 2008 by the Departement of Visual Communication, University of Art and Design Zurich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SwissMad S.A.
| Swiss designer of the free fonts Swiss Made (2006, techno sans) and Swiss Mad (2006, Swiss made stencilized). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
swissmiss
| Type blog by "Swiss Miss" Tina Roth Eisenberg, who now lives in NYC. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: mtrxs (with Jérôme Rigaud: a dot matrix font), Troyd, Encoda MM (sans serif), Encoda Anfang (sans serif), Absinthia, Punebot, Alchemia, Basicrounded, Bacted_Flagada_Trigger (a dirty look font), Helveliga (with Jerome Rigaud and Fabian Monod). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sylvestre Lucia (b. 1985, Dornarch, Switzerland) studies graphic design at the "Le Corbusiers Art School" in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. At AND in 2006, he created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S together with Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Mike Kohnke and Joachim Müller-Lancé. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Synergie Ltd
| Jean-Marc Wettach (Synergie Ltd) is the Genève-based designer (b. 1969) of Tsarine Anastasia Script (2002), Moskovia Script (2003, a revival of Phil Martin's Viant), BostonLibraryBook, CanyonElDiablo, EgretteLight, EgretteLightFlourish, FeatherThin, FortLaramie, LunarMoon, LyndaCursiveBold, LyndaScriptBold, LyndaScriptRegular, MarisaBook, MarisaBookBold, MarisaBookItalic, NabokovBook, SaintPetersburg, Kalinka Brush, Morocco Express, SanaaScript, SaphireLightScript, SepteraCoreScript and Anatol Hotel (2003). EgretteLight was removed at the request of Rian Hughes (Device)---too close for comfort? [Google] [More] ⦿ |
T. Reinhardt
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TambEdit
| Music software by Daniel Lüthi (Tafers, Switzerland). The demo software, when unzipped, contains TambEdit, a music font for drums by Daniel Lüthi. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
He created an organic display face called Doku (2011), which can be downloaded here. Enso (2011) is a rounded stencil face. Zarif (2012) is a versatile caps typeface. In 2012, he set up the commercial foundry Tamer Koseli. Even so, his typeface Patterns (2013, dedicated link to Forage Press) is free. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss creator of the iFontMaker font TPH Hand Ink (2010, handprinted face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pixel fonts (not downloadable) here include T-Gigafon, T-Megafon, T-Babyfon, T-Mikrofon, Telepong Regular, Telepong Bold, On-Off Condensed. "Telepong Inc. is a telecom start-up based in Pfaeffikon/Zürich, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. It's main shareholders are UCP AG and the Lomographic Society, the camera maker." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer (b. 1965, Basel) who with the help of URW created the font family Theo Ballmer (2000), based on his grandfather Theo's ideas from the Bauhaus era. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Zürich-based graphic designer (b. 1985). He designed the geometric sans face Loop (2005), the octagonal sans face Panzer Bold (2006) and Casual (2005, no downloads). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas A. Heim
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Thomas Ballmer
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Thomas Boucherie
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Kalendar (a screen font?), Minaco (a screen font family), Tilt (a dot matrix font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonts made by Swiss designer Thomas Hausheer from Hinwil: Teto (free pixel font), Shalom. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer of Punktschrift (with Thomas Neeser) at Kombinat Typefounders. Started the Neeser+Müller Grafik design studio in Basel in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer of Punktschrift (with Thomas Müller) at Kombinat Typefounders. Started the Neeser+Müller Grafik design studio in Basel in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Timm Suess
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Timo Gaessner
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Timo Gaessner
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Tina Roth Eisenberg
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Tina Roth Eisenberg
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Tiziana Haug
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Swiss type designer who created the fat finger face Geli (2010, Volcano). Behance link. Tobias Gutmann designed the font in 2009-2010 at the Typoclub, which is part of the Hochschule der Künste Bern. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Tobias Rechsteiner
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Additions in 2010: Punchline Filled (athletic lettering), High Voltage, Punchline (ultra heavy octagonal slab; +Filled), Nicotiana (slab serif), Exempla Slab Medium, Punched Out, Exempla Sans Medium (fat octagonal0, Pixel Pandemonium, Tradita, Frostletter (blackletter), Scrambled Script (blackletter), Circle Cult (circle-themed sans). Typefaces made in 2012: Apodosa (octagonal). Dafont link. Fontspace link. Blogspot link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss developer of a four-glyph font with boxes, called Ahem (1999). Apparently, it is used for browser testing. The font was updated by Paul Nelson in the mid 2000s. Most characters are the em square, except É and p, which show ascent/descent from the baseline. Useful for testing composition systems. IW (2009) is a similar test font. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type Culture
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Type for type
| I believe, but am not sure, that this site exists to showcase the black blocky typeface Edding (2012). They write: Buro Destruct from Switzerland has developed the first edding typeface. And they go: as soon as you have written something here, the typeface will be made available for download. Yes, that is all nice but I could not figure out how this download might work. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The site of the Basel Typostammtisch, started in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typoblog.ch
| Swiss type blog run by Roland Liechti. Type subpage. Free font subpage. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss foundry which offers several free techno fonts made from 1999-2004: Break, Buster, Eva, Fatt, Liner, Quadrron, Quer, Querround, Round, Subby, Tektrron-Regular, Tv, Cake, Fluster, Onky, Racer, Titan, Zone. Alternate (old) URL. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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In 2004, he made Clans (T-26, blackletter) and Boulas (T-26). In 2006, he released these at T-26: Boutan (Indic simulation face), Heraldry (dingbats), Palm Icons, Wingbat (airplanes). In 2007, still at T-26: Heraldry, Thunderbolt 73 through 76 (from techno stencil to techno sans). In 2008, at T26: Ealing (geometric sans family, with a hairline), Bauhau (6 weights), Jane (a rounded sans in 12 weights), Quean, Halja (blackletter), Faddish (a high-contrast vogue family), Big Boy (11 styles, a slab family from grunge to regular). Fonts from 2010: Tinsel (condensed), Rusty (Cyrillic simulation face), Vindaloo (+Outline, T26), Kimbo (octagonal slabby family), Cyrus Black, Calvin (a monoline sans family, +Hairline), Checkpoint (rounded display sans),Fuera (2011, bilined face, T26). In 2013, he published Faddish (T26: a fashion mag typeface), Heraldry (T26), Cedi (YWFT: a hand-printed typeface family with huge multi-character ligature set to simulate real handwriting), Tcho (T26: a soft rounded sans family that covers latin, Thai, Arabic, Greek and other scripts), Dejecta (a striking scratched titling face, T26), Nedo (a bold prismatic display typeface inspired by the work of Nedo Mion Ferrario in Venezuela), Quam (an elliptical sans family). View Michael Parson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
TM is a Swiss magazine involved in typography. Frequent contributors include Helmut Schmid. It is run by Comedia in Bern. The editor is Jean Pierre Graber from Zürich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss vendor of Berthold, Bitstream, Galla, Ingram and Jack Yan fonts. Includes a logo/signature service, and font conversion consulting. Swiss type pages by Peter H. Singer, the Berthold man in Zürich. Commercial links, mainly to Berthold. They provide some corporate identity font services as well as font conversions with Fontmonger (??). They also sell a 300 handwriting font collection. Alternate URL. List of type designers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German explanations on fonts in X11. At the RZU (University of Zürich). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Urs and Juerg Lehni (from Zürich, Switzerland) and Rafael Koch (from Luzern) designed Lego (1999) at lineto. They now go under the name "Blokes". Urs Lehni created the dngbats Linotype Freak Cabinet (1997) and Linotype Space Balls (1997). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic design student in Zurich. Creator of the hand-printed typeface Rennie (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss foundry which made SNV Extra Condensed (1972), a font later distributed commercially by URW. This is a license plate font used by various U.S. states and Canadian provinces. Not only is this font family quite ugly, it is also quite unreadable. A Ralf Herrmann explains that i can still be found on older Swiss traffic signs and also in Belgium where it is still the main font on road signs. Since 2003, the swiss use a new font called ASTRA Frutiger, which is based on Frutiger 57 Condensed with slight changes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Codesigner of Cointrin (1998) with Kimou Meyer at Grotesk, a design bureau in Geneva, Switzerland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1963, together with Gret Mengelt-Mergenthaler, he created Texpo for the Schweizer Expo 1964. This custom typeface is not generally available. However, Mindofone made a free version of it, called Hadley Stencil, in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss type designer, b. 1933, Zug. He created Schmalfette Grotesk (1954). He is most famous for the black headline face Haettenschweiler (1954)---a renaming of schmalfette Grotesk by Photoscript in the photo font era---, which made it to the Microsoft library in 1995 as part of Microsoft Office. Haettenschweiler was used by Paris Match for headlines. The soccer team Nottingham Forest has a logo based on it as well. Unpublished typefaces: Africaine, Breifette Etienne, Busride (1969), Coal (1975). Eleanora (1970), Haetti-Antiqua (1972), Haettenschweiler Face (1970), Halbstarke Pica, Oberoy (1971), Schmale Mediäval, Timeless (1971). Further typefaces accredited to him: Breitfette Unziale, Roaring Twenties, Unziale, Happening, Chelsea Type, Flat Letter, Knock Out, Strada, Yardley, Sezession, Carnaby, Op-Letter, Allshadow, Subway, End, Wornout, The Ugly American, Expo, Ellington, Boris Vian, Blues, Ella for ever, Wir Wunderkinder, Calder, Tropic, Polyp, Maotse, Aleman con Adorno, Alphabet Art Nouveau, Alphabet Capitales de Fantasie, Alphabet Majeur d'Anglaise Rubannee, Alphabets Capiale&Romain Penches en...., Arnold Boecklin, Eckmann-Schrift, Edelgotisch-Initialen, Fantail, Favorit, Fraktur-Bastard, Jugendstil-Unziale, Kalligraphia, Lettres Ombrees, Lichte Italienne-Kursiv, schraffiert+abschattiert, Lima, Metropolitaines, Mira, Ornamentale Antiqua, Romantique, Siegfried, Smoke, Soutache, Thalia, Verzierte Unziale, Wotan, Walhalla, Teutonia, Lichte,Abschattierte,Umrandete,Schraffierte Etienne, Alphabet de L'Amour, Historismus, Plastische Verzierte Italienne Toscanienne, Audrey Hepburn, Cocteau, Leslie, Disney, Caron, Klee, Picasso, Mondrian, Bauhaus, Marino Marini, Congo, Schenk ein Buch, Beggarstaff, Black'n White, Broad, Für das Alter, Gaité, Girlish Face, Green Leaves, Halbstarke Pica, Lawless Type, Lettre coupée, Maidenform, New Fashion, Nouvelle Vague, Schmale Mediaeval, Sacral Letter, That bad Eartha, Vanishing Letter. Revivals of his typefaces include Capital Ideas 2 NF (2012, Nick Curtis), which is based on Breitfette Unziale (1958). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Zürich, 1913. Died in Zürich, 1986. Designer of Diethelm Antiqua (Haas, 1948-1950; Linotype, 1957), Sculptura (1957), Arrow (1966, VGC, a Peignotian or lapidary face), Abacus, Aktiv, Capitol, and Gloriette. Digitizations include Sculptura (by Jason Castle in 2005), Seta Reta NF (2010, Nick Curtis, after Arrow), and Diethelm AR (2011, Ari Rafaeli, after Diethelm Antiqua, 1945). Klingspor link. Swiss type design link. Swiss Type Design on Diethelm Walter. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Teacher of Adrian Frutiger, b. 1901, Ottenbach, Switzerland. Pic. Here, you can find wonderful advice for making well-adjusted alphabets. In this wikipedia, we read: At the age of 16, Frutiger was apprenticed as compositor to a printer in the nearby town of Interlaken for four years and attended classes at the Zürich School of Arts and Crafts. (Rauri) Under the tutelage of Walter Käch from 1949 to 1951, students learned type design by rubbing forms from Roman inscriptions. The students then applied the knowledge learned from these ancient letterforms to their own type creations. The students came to realize that the way the inscriptions were made was an outline applied with a pen, and then chiseled into the rock. When students were first learning to design typefaces, they used pens to create flowing letterforms. Then students moved on to work with pencil. No instruments, such as rulers were used- everything was done by eye, and corrections had to be made by scraping the markings off with a knife. Frutiger respected Käch, and felt he was a fine teacher who allowed many different views to be prevalent. However, the young student disagreed with his teacher on how technical and defined forms should be. Käch was a calligrapher, and thought because punch cutters used a grid their forms were too harsh and technical. His typefaces are all dated 1949 and were published by ZHdK Zurich:
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warehouse type foundry
| From Switzerland, about 20 new designs for Mac and PC, at about 25 USD a piece. Faces: StinkyRat, San Francisco, San Jose, Sharky, Strike, Spacelab, BaseAlpha, RondaXero. All fonts by Johann Terrettazz who lives in Geneva where he runs the twice2 design studio. Page has become a Flash site. Now also Uppercut, Superclub, Gas Station, Dancefloor. WTF New Strike has been lauded as the best futuristic font of all time. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Free geographical symbol fonts by WaterGisWeb AG in Bern, Switzerland: WEA_GSK, WEA_Geologie, WEA_Wasserkraft. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Werner Affolter
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Wilhelm Haas the Elder (d. 1800) inherited and led the Haas typefoundry in Basel at the end of the 18th century. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Wilhelm Haas the younger (1766-1838) led the Haas typefoundry in Basel around 1800. Son of Wilhelm Haas the elder (1741-1800), who led the Haas typefoundry before him. Before that, his grandfather Johann Wilhelm Haas took over a foundry in 1737 from Johann Rudolf Genath II. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Typography: Formation and Transformation (2003) and Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics. Kenneth Frampton published an article entitled Willy Kunz Typography: Formation and Transformation in Comedia, edition 04-4, 2004. Amazon link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss typography teacher (b. 1941) at the Basel School of Design/Switzerland since 1968. Interview. Brief CV. Author of Wolfgang Weingart: Typography (2000), a text called arrogant by Stuart Bailey. I bought the book, and must say that the ratio of message to volume is rather small. Adam Rotmil comments on his exceptional teaching capabilitis just before Weingart's retirement from HGK Basel in 2004. A famous Weingart quote, cited in Revival of the Fittest, Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces (Philip B. Meggs&Roy McKelvey): Four typefaces are enough to address every typographic problem. Every digitization of an old typeface is, for me, a fake. Another quotation: Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Xavier Encinas
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Yassin Baggar (b. 1985, Switzerland) studied graphic design at School of Applied Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds and MA in type design from the TypeMedia, KABK, in The Hague. Since 2007, he worked freelance on identities, books and other printed matters for various studios in Switzerland and Berlin. Before joining TypeMedia KABK (where he obtained a Masters in 2011), he worked for different studios in Berlin. A collaboration with Anton Koovit on custom typefaces for GQ France led in 2012 to the founding of Fatype, a digital type foundry for retail and custom typefaces. Codesigner with Anton Koovit of the slab serif family Arvo (2010). His graduation work at KABK included the development of Bois (2011): Bois is a Roman Antiqua flirting with Gothic influences. The design, based on calligraphy and craftsmanship, was inspired by the works of Villu Toots, Rudolf Koch, Oldrich Menhart, and William Morris. The name Bois, French for wood, stands for the natural and solid aspect of the typeface. In 2012, he created the custom typeface family Derzeit for Derzeit, the Berlin Fashion Week Daily. It was designed in collaboration with art director Manuel Schibli. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zurich-based illustrator and art director who made the octagonal face Qbik in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This Zuricher Kanzleischrift dates back to 1553. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Technical college in Zürich where one can obtain two type design degrees, a CAS in Schriftgestaltung (type design) and an MAS in Type Design and Typography. Headed by Rudolf Barmettler, its staff includes Hans-Jürg Hunziker, André Baldinger, and Katharine Wolff. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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123 Buero is Timo Gaessner's graphic design studio, est. 2002 in Berlin. Gaessner studied at the Kunstacademie in Maastricht, at the University of Arts, Berlin, and at G. Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. He was a founding member of Balcony Magazine in Paris in 2001. His typefaces include 123Naiv (2004), 123Queen (2004), 123Sweater (2005), 123Julia (2001). All of these are characterized by minimalist shapes. Fonts like 123Naiv can also be bought at 
Swiss typefoundry in Sankt Gallen of 
Werner Affolter ran a phototype and printing company in Basel, Switzerland, called Affolter und Gschwind AG, Fotosatz&Reprotechnik. In 1981, Affolter published an extensive catalog entitled Letterama that showed over one thousand alphabets. Few of those were original, so I suspect he acted as a vendor of sorts, but at least a couple seemed original, or were claimed to be original or exclusive: 
Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, 1901-1966. He is known for his surrealist and expressionist work. His emaciated sculptures reflect a view that all modern life is empty and superficial. 
Swiss design company, est. in Basel in 1987. It expanded in 2000 and created an office in San Francisco. 
Born in 1936 in Basel, Switzerland's André Gürtler's work from 1978 for the Haassche Schriftgiesserei includes 
German illustrator and graphic designer who works at Keller Maurer Design in Munich. Born in Ravensburg in 1982, as a student in 2007, she created 
Atelier Bubentraum is Anton Studer, a designer located in Zürich. 
Foundry and studio run by 
Gifted designer from Lausanne, Switzerland. One of the most talented creators of typefaces with FontStruct. 
BP stands for Buechi et Party. Ian Party is a Lausanne-based type designer (b. Lausanne, 1977) who studied first at ECAL in Lausanne and then at the KABK in The Hague. In 2004, he cofounded 
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Illustrator who was born in Lisbon and lived in the Northeastern part of the USA for seven years before returning to Lisbon for a few more years and finally settling in Geneva, Switzerland. 
Catharsis is located in Leiden, The Netherlands. Before that, Christian Thalmann's page 
Swiss designer Bruno Maag (b. Zürich) founded Dalton Maag in 1991, and set up shop in Brixton, South London. He serves the corporate market with innovative type designs, but also has a retail font line. Ex-Monotype designer Ron Carpenter designs type for the foundry. In the past, type designers Veronika Burian and fabio Luiz Haag have worked for Dalton Maag. A graduate of the Basel School of Design, who worked at Stempel and was invitedd by Rene Kerfante to Join Monotype to start up a custom type department. After that, he set up Dalton Maag with his wife Liz Dalton. He has built the company into a 40-employee enterprise with offices in London, Boston, Brazil, Vienna and Hong Kong. 
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DKGD stands for Dani Klauser Grafik Design. He is a Swiss designer from Luzern who made the free geometric sans face Circle (2007). He also made the headline faces 
Graphic designer in Sierre and Lausanne. During her studies at ECAL (Lausanne), she made a cinematographic signage typeface called 
Basel-based designer of the square-spaced typeface 
Multimedia designer, creative consultant, a brand and identity designer in Saint Cergue, Switzerland, b. 1983. He runs (ran?) a brand design company called 
Swiss designer (b. 1988) of 
Typographer and graphic designer from Geneva. He created 
Type and graphic design pages by Edgar Walthert, b. Sursee, Switzerland. In 2007, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag. Since then he is free-lancing. He completed TazIII in 2008 for Lucas de Groot in Berlin. In 2008, he moved to Amsterdam to work as an independent graphic and type-designer. 
Swiss ex-student of Ian Party at ECAL in Lausanne, who created 
Swiss designer of 
Swiss type designer. As 
Swiss decorative artist, poster designer of the art nouveau era, and type designer (b. Lausanne, 1841, d. Sceaux, 1917) who made Étrusque (Fonderie Gustave Peignot&fils, 1900), 
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Fidel Peugeot, a Swiss type designer, ran RGB107,6-International (or Radioglaibasel) in Vienna. He also offers some fonts made by his friends at 
Swiss designer (b. 1955) located at Lake Geneva. 
Grilli Type is Noël Leu and Thierry Blancpain, graduates of the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland. Grilli Type is an independent Swiss type foundry, founded in 2009. They offer a range of display and text typefaces, based either on historical sources or with an experimental background. 
German/Swiss foundry established in 1790 (however, see timeline below) and based in Basel/Münchenstein. Many of its shares were acquired by D. Stempel in 1927. Linotype takes over Haas in 1989. Their collection includes: 
Linotype's Helvetica, itself derived from Haas Grotesk, has a large number of clones, some of which I will attempt to list here (see 
Swiss type designer (b. Cannanore, India, 1902, d. Basel, 1993). He was associated with the Haas type foundry, where he made 
Idealphabet was founded in 2008 by Alexander Aeschbach (Zurich, Switzerland). It sells these typefaces: 
Typographer, architect, designer and 
Swiss organization which in the type world is best known for its simple monoline rounded typeface Isonorm proposed in 1980. The font is appropriate for drafting and architectural purposes, as well as for technical charts and graphics. This typeface was digitally implemented by many, including: 
Switzerland-based designer of the free font 
Jannuzzi Smith is a cross-media design consultancy based in London and Lugano. It made a sans out of the slabby MT Calvert (by Margaret Calvert, 1936) called 
Paudex (Lausanne), Switzerland-based type designer, b. 1991, Switzerland. He created 
Designer from Fribourg, Switzerland, b. 1976. 
Swiss art director (b. Empoli, 1979), currently living and working in Paris. His type family 
(German or Swiss) creator (aka Fuex) of the free calligraphic font Miama (2009, 
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Geneva-based professor of Gregorian chants. 
Graphic design studio in Geneve, Switzerland, founded by Pedro Julien and Gabriel Comym. Typefaces created by them include Era 21 (2013: a fashion mag high-contrast didone), Quantum (2013: futuristic liquid typeface), She Is Typo (2012: another fashion mag display typeface), Vani (2012). 
Maelle Keita is the second identity of 
Marc comes from Liechtenstein and Switzerland, but works in London as Marc Weymann Design. Graduate from the type design program at the 
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In 2010, designers Timo Gaessner and Alexander Meyer started MilieuGrotesque (or: Meyer&Gässner) in Zurich, an independent platform for designers and editors, publishing and distributing a growing collection of typefaces and related publications. MilieuGrotesque reflects our ongoing interest and involvement with all things typographical in work and thought. The page features mainly typefaces designed by themselves: 
The Modonomat typefoundry was founded in 2011 by Christine Gertsch (b. 1984, Bubendorf, Switzerland), a Swiss graphic and type designer living in Berlin. Christine studied in Basel, Québec, Berlin, Kolding and The Hague, where she was part of the 
Zurich-based graphic design studio that often work for art and architecture clients. It is run by Marc Kappeler, Markus Reichenbach and Rith Amstutz. 
Swiss designer in Zurich who made Souper3 (2009) and Soupleaf (2009, a fun decorative handprinted face for gourmet illustrations). 
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Graphic, multimedia and type designer in Basel, Switzerland. Nina Stoessinger designed her first font in 2001, and obtained a degree in multimedia design in Halle, Germany, in 2008. She created a family of bitmap faces called 
Noël Leu is one of the cofounders of Grilli in Bern (while studying at the University of the Arts Bern in Visual Communication and Literature Writing). Leu 
Nootype (Nico Inosanto) is a Swiss typefoundry in Neuchatel. Typefaces made in 2013 include the text face 
Page Studio Graphics is Roger Vershen's Oro Valley, AZ-based company specializing in symbols and symbol fonts, founded by him in 1986. Roger Vershen died in Tucson, AZ, in 2003. 
Zurich-based award winner at TDC55 for 
During her studies at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thai-born Pensaya Khurewathanakul created the fun typeface 
Zurich-based illustrator. While grocery shopping, a sign about a sale of asparagus led to the inspiration and the 
Developers of the free slab serif typewriter style font 
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Born in 1976 in Germany, Roman Wilhelm graduated in 2004 with a diploma related to a German-Chinese book project. He studied visual communication at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale) in Germany and type design at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Fred Smeijers. He briefly taught type design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. He specializes in multilingual typography, which includes Chinese and Korean, and he taught in Seoul, Hong Kong and Shenyang. He is primarily a web, book and magazine designer, but in 2009, he did create 
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Swiss art director who has done substantive typographic work for some clients. For Tess model agency in London, he custom-designed 
Swiss graphic designer who works in Berlin. His fonts can be obtained at lineto and 
Sébastien Théraulaz from Lausanne lives in Montreal since 1997. There, he started his type foundry Subtitude (as part of Sub Communications Inc). The first fonts: Subix (2005, bitmap font), Subedge (2005), 
Designer from Istanbul, who was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1985. 
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Tobias Sommer ("Shasta") is the Geneva, Switzerland-based designer (b. 1986) at FontStruct in 2008 of Great Depression (influenced by headline fonts from 1929), Brutto (headline slab serif), Lame Dude (dripping paint), Toytype (an interesting Indic simulation face based on an earlier block font by him called Block On), 
Advertised as 
Typogama is the personal foundry of Swiss designer 
Swiss graphic and type designer who studied first at Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Genève (2000) and then at the University of Reading (Masters in type design, 2007). He lives and works in Geneva. He created 
Swiss graphic designer, b. 1923. Toto's 
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Zürich-based 
