Edgar Walthert

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Edgar Walthert Type and graphic design pages by Edgar Walthert, b. Sursee, Switzerland. In 2007, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag. Since then he is free-lancing. He completed TazIII in 2008 for Lucas de Groot in Berlin. In 2008, he moved to Amsterdam to work as an independent graphic and type-designer. In Amsterdam, he hosts Letterspace Amsterdam, a monthly series of lectures about experimentation, innovation and research in type. In 2021, he set up Font Spectrum together with Daniel Maarleveld. His typefaces include Agile (2007, a sans family done at KABK), Grosse Pläne, Instant Schrift (2000: Redesign of Isonorm 3098 matching the radical restrictions of the Instant design-manual), and Sonic Waves (an experimental typeface that was created for dublab, a radio station based in Los Angeles, and was drawn using sound waves that can actually be played as an audio file). Agile was further developed in 2011 with weights ranging from hairline to fat, and appeared in 2013 as a retail typeface at Incubator / Village. He published the constructed sans typeface family Logical in 2018 at Bold Monday / Type Network. His typefaces at FontSpectrum: Purple Haze (2021-2022). Purple Haze is an experimental variable typeface with a readable regular weight and decorative dot matrix-themed extremes. The font works best when being animated or interacted with. His corporate typefaces: Toneelmakerij typeface by Edgar Walthert in collaboration with Esther de Boer for the identity of the Dutch theater company De Toneelmakerij. Contains many icons. Alpen Display and Text (2018), custom typefaces for Bühne Burgäschi by Edgar Walthert. Inspired by classic Swiss tourism posters from the 1930s and '40s. Alpen Display and Alpen Text is currently being further developed and will be released as Arosa Display, Arosa Text and Arosa Script. De Patronenmaker typeface. For a website designed by Johannes Verwoerd, Walthert created a variable font based on the open source typeface Publica by Gustavo Ferreira, by pushing its extremes to 0 and 11. The website uses the same 26kb font file for all animations, menu and body text. This Is Africa typeface for Ghetto Radio in Nairobi by Edgar Walthert, with Esther de Boer.	EXTERNAL LINKS Edgar Walthert Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿