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TYPETR (was: Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens) [Petr van Blokland]

Petr van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1956) is an influential Dutch typpe designer and type technolgy specialist. In 1980, Petr co-founded Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens, which was a design and typography outfit in Delft (The Netherlands) that marketed RoboFog, a scripting language for Fontographer. From 1984 until 1989 he taught at the Academy for Visual Arts in Arnhem. Since 1988 he is a teacher at the Graphic and Typographic Design Department and the post-graduate course Type&Media of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. In 1988, he received the Prix Charles Peignot. In 2017, van Blokland joined the Type Network as TYPETR. His typefaces:

  • Vijfzeven (1978, dot matrix).
  • Proforma (1984, available from Font Bureau) and Productus (1992, Proforma's sans sibling).
  • Prolinea (1999). The sans serif counterpart of Proforma.
  • Deforma (1999).
  • the Künstlerbrüder-Schriftfamilie (2005). A family of 30 fonts (10 widths, 3 weights) based on 3 width masters for each of two weights co-designed by Erik and Petr van Blokland. It is a quirky and refreshing family made for banners for the Münchener Haus der Kunst.
  • Bitcount (2017). A pixel font and layered pixel font project consisting of 300 fonts published by Type Network, advertized as the only pixel font you will ever need.
  • Upgrade (2018). A low-contast sans typeface family published at the Type Network.
  • Powerlift (2018). A chunky, funky, punchy display slab serif.

Keynote speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal: Code All Your Graphic Designs with PageBot, DrawBot and Variation Fonts.

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