TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Wed Jan 29 17:04:45 EST 2025
FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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Rudolf Barmettler
Font designer and type historian. Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). In 2018, Nouvelle Noire and Barmettler joined forces in the design of Rektorat. They explain: In 2001, during a renovation of the Zurich School of Applied Arts and Crafts (today ZHdK), hand lettered signage was discovered hidden behind ancient wallpaper. The letters were individually painted and had been applied by hand in 1930 as signage for the modernist building. The letter designs are assumed to be the work of Ernst Keller. Between 2001 and 2004, Prof. Rudolf Barmettler, in collaboration with students, digitized the letters and combined them into fonts. In conjunction with the recent renovation of the Design Museum, Prof. Barmettler, in collaboration with the Zurich-based type foundry Nouvelle Noire, has drawn Rektorat, a type family based on this historical lettering. |
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