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Czech designer and book artist (1876-1949). Director of the state press Statni Tiskarna. Author of these books: Typograf o Knihach (1925, Druhé Vydani, Bydal Spolek Typografia, Prague: the 1925 version is the second edition; the first edition was privately published in a very limited edition in 1911 by Dyrynk himself), Rules of Typesetting (Pravidla Sazby), The Book Beautiful (Krasna Kniha). Typefaces made by him include Dyrynk Lateinschrift (1928, A. Gregr type foundry---Dyrynkova Latinka in Czech; Burian mentions that it is from 1930), Malostranska Antiqua (1927), Malostranska Italic (1928), Gregr Roman (1930), Gregr Italic (1931), Otakar Brezina (1946, Statni Tiskarna), Biblicke pismo (1933, unpublished), Konupek Italic (1946, unpublished), and a set of pictograms (1933, Statni Tiskarna). Digitizations: Dyrynk Lateinschrift was the basis of P22 Dyrynkova-Latinka (2003), and P22 Dyrynk Roman and Italic (Richard Kegler, P22, 2004). |
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