Ladislav Sutnar

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Ladislav Sutnar Steven Heller writes this about this Czech designer who was born in Pilsen in 1897, went on to become professor at UMPREM in Prague in 1923, emigrated to the United States in 1939, and died in 1976 in New York: Ladislav Sutnar was a progenitor of the current practice of information graphics, the lighter of a torch that is carried today by Edward Tufte and Richard Saul Wurman, among others. For a wide range of American businesses, Sutnar developed graphic systems that clarified vast amounts of complex information, transforming business data into digestible units. He was the man responsible for putting the parentheses around American telephone area-code numbers when they were first introduced. [...] Overshadowed by two contemporaries, El Lissitsky and Moholy-Nagy, Sutnar is a relatively unsung leader of Modern objective typography. Yet he was a household name in Prague. Exhibition about his work in Prague (2003). In 2013, Tomas Brousil created the roundish sans family Ladislav. He writes: The Ladislav font revitalises Sutnar's legacy, while not explicitly copying any of his original fonts. It however keeps true to their technicist character and initial principles of character creation - a simple modular system of combined geometrical segments. This approach affects all round shapes of capital and lowercase letters, as well as the shapes of the majority of numbers. In 2015, Robyn Henry created the modular typeface Ladislav Sutnar.	EXTERNAL LINKS Ladislav Sutnar Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type design in Czechia ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿