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German punchcutter and typefounder, b. Hamburg, 1903, d. Schönberg, 1970, who ran the Bauersche Giesserei for a while [he started work there in 1928 and became art director in 1948]. From 1947 onwards he taught book and type design at the University of Mainz. He designed the following Bauer typefaces with Walter Baum: Alpha (1954), Beta (1954), the sans serif family Folio (1957-1965), Caravelle (1957, the Fonderie Typographique Française name for Folio), Imprimatur (1952-1955: a narrow roman, also called Horizon; for a digital revival, see I772 Roman (by SoftMaker) or Gmuender Antiqua Pro (2015) by Ralph M. Unger), Impressum (1963, a wide text face), Verdi (1957), Volta (1956; +Mager). |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |