Stefanie Schwarz

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Stefanie Schwarz Stefanie Schwarz studied Visual Communication at Pforzheim University in Germany and received her M.A. in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London. Since 2012 she is teaching typography and type design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. She also teaches at Bauhaus University Weimar. In 2013 she founded the Typographic Research Lab Open2Type together with Dirk Wachowiak and became an associate of the London-based institution DesignScience. [T-26] designer of the futuristic More Modern family (2005) consisting of Light, Medium, Black and Pixel. In 2007, she added More Modern Flow. In 2008, she created FF Polymorph, a fun family that includes the alchemic typeface FF Polymorph North. In 2015, Stefanie Schwarz and Dirk Wachowiak designed the rounded sans typeface family Weissenhof Grotesk at the Indian Type Foundry. It is characterized by a striking similarity between many letters, and a lower case g with its ear perked up. In 2020, Dirk Wachowiak and Stefanie Schwarz released Referenz Grotesk at Sudtipos. They write: Made in Germany, Referenz Grotesk is a typeface full of references referring to the type design history of Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Its typographic history holds a broad spectrum of shapes and characters, including F.H. Ernst Schneidler (1882?~@~S1956), Imre Reiner (1900-1987), Walter Brudi (1907-1987), Kurt Weidemann (1922-2011) and Frank Heine (1964-2003).	EXTERNAL LINKS Stefanie Schwarz [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Sci-Fi fonts ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Typefaces for alchemy ⦿