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Gisela Will

German type and graphic designer, b. 1962. She studied graphic design in Hamburg, and started her type career at Elsner&Flake, where she digitized, kerned, and completed many Latin, Hebrew and Greek typefaces, as well as EF Beasty, EF Fontinform (newspaper type), EF Future World, EF Knockout, EF Mayday, and EF Rumour. She helped develop the NIVEA logo face, she revived the Radiant family, and she published the BeastyBodies face. She designed BB Rumour (1994) and three other fonts at Linotype. Her early work often involves grunge/grunge-type designs. Her Knockout font (grunge) at Elsner and Flake (1974) predates Jonathan Hoefler's Knockout family (1999) by 25 years, so why is Hoefler not in trouble for the choice of this name?

Currently, she is working on Nordische Antiqua, a robust text typeface that is a revival of the 10 weight Genzsch Antiqua family from 1907-1912 created by Genzsch&Heyse's then president, Friedrich Bauer. As she showed at ATypI in Copenhagen in 2001, this typeface is readable even at 5 or 6 points. It has last been used in 1962, so this should be a welcome revival. She created the logotype typeface MedienKontor. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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