Walter Friedrich Haettenschweiler

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Walter Friedrich Haettenschweiler Swiss type designer, b. 1933, Zug. He studied at Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, and from 1957 onwards he ran a design studio in Zug. His typefaces, often published in the Lettera book series (Lettera2, 1961; Lettera3, 1968 and Lettera4, 1972) all printed by Teufen. Abschattierte Africaine Aleman con Adorno Allshadow 1969 Alphabet Art Nouveau Alphabets Capitale&Romain Penches en.... Alphabet Capitales de Fantasie Alphabet Majeur d'Anglaise Rubannee Alphabet de Broderies (with Armin Haab) Alphabet de L'Amour Arnold Boecklin Audrey Hepburn 1951 Bauhaus 1952 Beggarstaff 1961 Black'n white 1960 (with Armin Haab) Blues (with Armin Haab) Boris Vian (with Armin Haab) Box-Letter 1972 Breitfette Etienne 1960 Breitfette Unziale 1968 (with Armin Haab) Broad Busride 1969 Calder 1952 (with Armin Haab) Carnaby 1967 Caron 1952 Chelsea Type 1967 Coal 1969 Cocteau 1951 Congo 1952 Disney 1952 Driving 1975 (with Armin Haab) Eckmann-Schrift Edelgotisch-Initialen Eleanora 1970 Ella forever (with Armin Haab) Ellington (with Armin Haab) End 1972 Expo 1967 (with Armin Haab) Für das Alter Fancy Letter 1957 Fantail Favorit Flat Letter 1967 (with Beat Frick) Fraktur-Bastard Gaité 1961 Girlish Face Green Leaves 1960 (with Armin Haab) Grotesk Haettenschweiler 1954 (Microsoft, Linotype). He is most famous for the black headline typeface Haettenschweiler (1954)---a renaming of schmalfette Grotesk by Photoscript in the photo font era---, which made it to the Microsoft library in 1995 as part of Microsoft Office. Haettenschweiler was used by Paris Match for headlines. The soccer team Nottingham Forest has a logo based on it as well. Haettenschweiler Display 2006 Haettenschweiler Face 1970 Haetti-Antiqua 1972 Halbstarke Pica 1960 (with Armin Haab) Happening 1967 (with Armin Haab) Historismus Jugendstil-Unziale Kalligraphia Klee 1952 Knock out 1967 Lawless Type 1961 (with Armin Haab) Lefthand drive lineale 1975 (with Armin Haab) Leslie 1952 Lettre coupée Lettres Ombrees Lichte Lichte Italienne-Kursiv Lima Maidenform 1960 Maotse (with Armin Haab) Marino Marini 1952 Metropolitaines Mira Mondrian 1952 New Fashion Nouvelle Vague OP-Letter 1968 Oberoy 1971 Ornamentale Antiqua Picasso 1952 Plastische Verzierte Italienne Toscanienne Polyp (with Armin Haab) Roaring Twenties 1967 (with Armin Haab) Romantique Sacral Letter 1960 Schenk ein Buch 1953 Schmale Mediaeval 1960 Schmalfette Grotesk 1954 Schraffiert+abschattiert Schraffierte Etienne Sezession S 1967 Shark 1974 Siegfried Smoke Soutache Strada 1967 Subway 1971 Symphonie 1952 TV-Letter 1973 Teutonia Thalia That bad Eartha The Ugly American 1972 (with Armin Haab) Timeless 1971 Tropic (with Armin Haab) Umrandete Unziale 1967 (with Armin Haab) Vanishing Letter Verzierte Antiqua 1961 Verzierte Unziale Walhalla Wir Wunderkinder (with Armin Haab) Wornout 1972 Wotan Yardley 1967 Zierliche Antiqua 1961 (with Armin Haab) Revivals of his typefaces include Capital Ideas 2 NF (2012, Nick Curtis), which is based on Breitfette Unziale (1958). Schmalfette CP (Jason Walcott and Rob King) revives Walter Haettenschweiler's original titling sans from 1954.	EXTERNAL LINKS Walter Friedrich Haettenschweiler [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Bauhaus and type design ⦿ Uncial typefaces ⦿ Typefaces related to Pablo Picasso ⦿ Soccer typefaces ⦿ Typefaces related to Paul Klee ⦿