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Dezcom Typefaces [Chris E. Lozos] Chris Lozos (aka Dezcom and Dezcom Typefaces) is a Washington, DC-based (well, now Falls Church, VA-based) graphic designer and Vietnam veteran, b. 1944, Pittsburgh, PA. He studied Design at Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA in Graphic Design (1966). While at CMU, he studied with calligraphers Arnold Bank and Howard Glasser, who both brought out the love of historic letter-forms and learned to set hot metal type in the Laboratory Press established there by Jack Stauffacher. Chris also was influenced by guest professors Hermann Zapf, Rudy DeHarek, Martin Krampen and Gui Bonnsieppe (of the HfG Ulm). He attended Graduate School in Visual Communication Design at the Ohio State University from 1972 through 1974. His typefaces: Dez Petranian (2013). A warm text typeface designed for story-telling, and related to Souvenir. Des Squeeze Pro (2013). A great condensed display family with large x-height. The Pro version of Des Squeeze (2009). Dez Weimar Plakat (2013). Inspired by a 1923 Weimar Bauhaus / constructivist exhibition poster. This is a finished version of Weimar Plakat 1923 Pro (2006-2007). See also here. Dez Yinznat Stencil (2012). A military stencil dedicated to the industrial past of Pittsburgh. Dez Quo Vadis Titling (2010). Dez Boulder (2010). The bold headline typeface family Dez Squeeze (2009, +Fat). Discussions: Squeeze, Fat Squeeze. Leporello (2004). The semi-techno typeface Align Sans (2005). Now (2005). A geometric sans family with several novel ideas, which was followed by Now Bold (2006), Now Regular, Now Light, Now Gaunt Display (hairline) and Dez Now Sans (2018), about which he writes: A humanistic typeface family that was begun in 2005 by Chris Lozos of Dezcom. Since then, it has been nurtured, revised, and expanded to include 12 weights in both upright roman and true italics totaling 24 variations. The sans families Boulder Ego and Boulder Alter Ego (2006). Tovarich. Froggy (2006). Flickr page. .	EXTERNAL LINKS Dezcom Typefaces [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Type scene in Virginia ⦿ Type scene in DC ⦿ Type design and constructivism ⦿ Bauhaus and type design ⦿ De Stijl and type design ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Type scene in Pennsylvania ⦿ Military typefaces ⦿