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Bas Jacobs

Dutch graphic and type designer, b. Wanssum, The Netherlands, 1976. In 1999, together with Akiem Helmling, he cfounded Underware in Den Haag. Bas studied at the KABK in Den Haag and lives in Amsterdam since 2001. His type design work:

• Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling designed Dolly (2001), a 4-font book typeface with flourishes. The Bukvaraz 2001 award they won for it mentions that Lars de Beer and Sami Kortemäki also had a hand in the font. Dolly A Book Typeface with Flourishes is a book that describes the development of Dolly.
• Codesigner of Bello.
• Codesigner of Sauna (2002; +Sauna Mono Pro).
• Codesigner of Liza (2009).
• Codesigner of Auto (1, 2 and 3) (2004-2014).
• Codesigner of Unibody 8 (free).
• Codesigner of Fakir (2006), a blackletter typeface family.
• In 2015, Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling and Sami Kortemäki published the stencil family Tripper Pro.
• In 2017, Underware developed the super-adaptive and parametric typeface family Duos Pro.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about education in type design. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin and at ATypI 2017 in Montreal. At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling introduced the high order interpolation system for fonts called HOI.

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