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Zygfryd Gardzielewski

Polish type designer, b. Torun, 1914, d. 2001. He worked as graphic designer and production manager at Thorner Grafikwerken, Creator of Antykwa Torunska (1952-1958, released by the Polish state foundry [the Grafmasz type foundry in Warsaw] in 1960). He was also known for woodcuts, postage stamps and illustrations.

Bogusaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk created a series of digital fonts under the same name, Torunska. Gardzielewski's biography, told by Andrzej Tomaszewski.

Antykwa Torunska (1995) is a large digital family made by Janusz Marian Nowacki based on Gardzielewski's work. Klingspor link.

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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