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Hermann Eidenbenz

Swiss type designer (b. Cannanore, India, 1902, d. Basel, 1993). He was associated with the Haas type foundry, where he made Clarendon Roman (1952-1953, together with Edouard Hoffmann, after the 1845 English classic Clarendon; see also Clarendon BNo. 1 Stencil, 1965, URW), LA 39 Alphabet, and the shaded outline all caps typeface Graphique (1946).

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:

• Graphique AR (2007) is a shadowed typeface by ARTypes that is a digital version of a type designed by Hermann Eidenbenz and issued by the Haas foundry in 1946.
• Ralph Unger based his Graphique Pro (2008) on Graphique as well. The layered typeface family Graphique Pro Next (2014, Joern Oelsner, Profonts) is a further revival and extension of Graphique Pro.
• Images of the Bitstream version of Clarendon. The last update of this is Clarendon BT Pro (2015).
• SoftMaker has Clarendon Serial.
• Linotype version.

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