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ABC Litera [Roland Stieger] ABC Litera is the type foundry in Sankt Gallen of Swiss type designers Jost Hochuli, Roland Stieger and Jonas Niedermann. Roland Stieger was born in Kobelwald. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the daily newspaper of Rheintal, Altstätten, he studied type design at CAS Type Design at the ZHDK. Creator with Jonas Niedermann of the sans typeface Alena, about which he writes: It all started with the woodcut from Jost Hochuli, published in the year 1980. I found this woodcut in a bookshop around 1992 and was fascinated by it for many years. Until my interest in type design became so huge that I took it as a starting point to design an own typeface, a sans serif, called Alena, which builds on the shapes and proportions of this woodcut. Released in 2019 at Nouvelle Noire. In 2017, LD Alena was released at Lazydogs Type foundry in upright and italic styles in eight weights. Jost Hochuli is a book designer, successful author, and teacher. In 2011, he started work on the clean sans family Allegra. Nicolas (2012) is a new serif typeface by ABC Litera. An 8-minute documentary by Nouvelle Noire about the making of Allegra (by Jost Hochuli) and Alena (by Roland Stieger), produced in 2020 by Nouvelle Noire.	EXTERNAL LINKS ABC Litera [Buy fonts] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿