Type design in Switzerland
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Original typefaces made in 2001: 2TheLeftDingbats, 3t (pixel font), DepthChargeSemiPhat, HKIMetropol, HKINightlife, LeftOvers, LeftOvers2, LeftOvers3, LeftOvers4, LeftOvers5, LeftOvers6, LeftOversII2, MrQuicke (nice futuristic font), Optimal (like Bank Gothic), Switzerland, YUMYUM, LeftOversII, LeftOversII31, Punavuori (2001).
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Adrian Englert |
Swiss type technology expert of Russian origin. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Church Slavonic.
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Famous type designer born in 1928 in Unterseen, Switzerland. He closely cooperates with Linotype-Hell AG, after having been artistic director at Deberny-Peignot in Paris since 1952. He established his own studio in 1962 with André Gürtler and Bruno Pfaftli. Art director for Editions Hermann, Paris 1957 to 1967. Frutiger now lives near Bern, Switzerland, and is primarily working with woodcuts. In 2009, Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm coedited Adrian Frutiger Typefaces The Complete Works (Birkhäuser Verlag), a 460-page opus based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland. He designed over 100 fonts. Here is a partial list:
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Nice list of German language books on typography.
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ala webstatt
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Digital media firm and pixel font site. You can buy the pixelfonts Baby and Screenie-Folio here. Alexandra Rimaldi and René Etienne Keller run this site. Keller teaches Screendesign at The Fachschule für Gestaltung (HFG) in St.Gallen, Switzerland. I guess, but am not sure, that Keller made the fonts.
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Originally from Zürich, he is currently studying graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Creator of the playful slab face Albina Medium (2009).
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Swiss type designer, b. Luzern, 1930, d. Vernazza, 1974. He designed Pointille (1975, VGC), Siris (Hollenstein Phototypo, 1972), Tivi (Hollenstein Phototypo, 1968), Brasilia (ABM Hollenstein, 1960, with Albert Boton), Primavera (ABM Hollenstein, 1963, with Albert Boton), Rialto (ABM Hollenstein, 1960, with Albert Boton). With Albert Boton, he designed ITC Eras.
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Swiss graphic and type designer who lives in Duebendorf but was born in Arbon in 1982. In 2008, he graduated in Visual Communication from the School of Art and Design Zürich.He created the didone typeface Quick Black (2008).
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Altgriechische Zeichensätze
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Lucius Hartmann (Hinwil, Switzerland) at the University of Zürich lists the main fonts that are useful to classicists and users of old Greek. Downloadable fonts include Aisa Unicode (by Hildegund Mueller & Stefan Hagel, 1997-1998). Hartmann himself created Sappho (2002) and Alkaios (2005).
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Partner with Dario Hofstetter at Monom in Switzerland. Together, they designed 100 pixel and experimental fonts.
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amb+
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André Baldinger is the Swiss typographer and type designer (b. 1963) who made the Newut (1996, all letters of equal size, and thus a semi-unicase) and the B-Dot (pixel) families (1998). His outfit in Lausanne is called amb+. Brief CV. Since 1995, he teaches typography at the École supérieure d'arts visuels de Lausanne. He lives in Paris, where he is involved in projecvts such as the logotype for the Cité Universitaire and a custom type for the Eiffel tower.
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Swiss design company, est. in Basel in 1987. It expanded in 2000 and created an office in San Francisco. MyFonts link. Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Sylvestre Lucia, Mike Kohnke and Joachim Müller-Lancé created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S. The studio is run by Jean-Benoît Lévy (b. 1959, Pully, Switzerland). Lévy is a visual communicator who has been active since 1983 in Switzerland. After his studies at the Basel School of Design with teachers such as Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann, he opened his studio AND in 1987. Jean-Benoit received his green card in 2001 and is now sharing his time between United States and Europe. He designs logos, corporate identities, postage stamps, coins, posters, and books.
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Andrea Schweiger |
Coauthor with André Gürtler of Die Handschrift, Comedia, edition 02-4, 2002.
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Born in 1936 in Basel, Switzerland's André Gürtler's work from 1978 for the Haassche Schriftgiesserei includes Basilia (1978, available from URW). Some of his fonts: Egyptian 505 (1966, VGC, First Prize in the 1966 VGC National Type Face Design Competition, developed in cooperation with his students), Media (1976, with Chr. Mengelt and Erich Gschwind), Signa (1978), LinoLetter (with Reinhard Haus, Adobe) and Haas Unica (1980, grotesque). He managed the design office at Deberny & Peignot in the late fifties and early sixties. Later, he taught production letter design at the Künstgewerberschule at Basel. Formed Team 77 with Christian Mengelt and Erich Gschwind in order to make a correct grotesk improving over past grotesks, including Helvetica. About Unica, Hrant Papazian writes: Unica is amazing. The only grot I like - although some people don't think it's a grot - which would explain my attraction! It avoids both the sterility of Univers and the... well, idiocy, of Helvetica. [...] art of it is Gurtler's mystique. Another is the amazing "rationalization" exercise Team 77 carried out in making it (elaborated just as amazingly in a small publication I have a copy of). I guess the main reason I can cling to is that it's not "naive". Most old grots (like Akzidenz) are like backwards villagers to me, and new grots (like FF Bau) are urbanites pretending to be villagers. In comparison, Unica is like an urbanite who has had to move in with his villager in-laws, but has decided to make the best of it. On the other hand, I suspect this is exactly why some people think Unica is not in fact a grot - it's a geo in grot's clothing. Stephen Coles writes: Scangraphics Digital Type Collection (which included Haas Unica) was purchased by Elsner + Flake in 2003, to which they added font-specific Euro and @ symbols in 2004. The revamped typeface was set to be sold by Scangraphic and its distributors, but Linotype is currently preventing the release, citing trademark violations. Although similarities to other typefaces often occur between foundries, it is rare that one finds typefaces that have been shelved indefinitely due to such resemblances. In truth, the real problem lies within a dispute over who owns the name Haas Unica, rather than any resemblance infringment. Haas Unica is commercially unavailable thanks to Linotype and Scangraphic. Linotype especially stands to lose a lot of Helvetica money if it ever appears. PDF of Unica. The Miinistry of Type calls it the ultimate archetypal sans serif face.
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Designer at burodestruct in Bern of the gorgeous font BD GalaQuadra (1999).
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Product designer in Zurich. Creator at FontStruct (where she is known as Bananna) of the stitching font Stich Miss (2009).
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Author of "Le maître de Garamond" (Editions Stock, 2002), a beautiful book on the life and death of Antoine Augereau, who was Claude Garamond's teacher and mentor. Anne Cuneo was born in 1936 in Italy and lives in Zürich Comment by Guy Schockaert: "Le 24 décembre 1534, place Maubert, accusé d'hérésie, Antoine Augereau est pendu, son corps et ses mains brûlées. Homme de lettres, érudit, théologien, Antoine Augereau était un grand imprimeur, éditeur et graveur de caractères typographiques. Il modela ceux dont nous nous servons encore aujourd'hui, et avec Clément Marot, inventa l'usage des accents et de la cédille. La publication du Miroir de l'âme de Marguerite de Navarre lui coûtera la vie. La Sorbonne, gardienne jalouse d'une orthodoxie figée, désapprouve la pensée de la soeur de François Ier, mais ne peut la condamner. Antoine Augereau paiera pour elle. Racontée par le plus célèbre de ses disciples, l'histoire passionnante et émouvante d'un humaniste prêt à mourir pour défendre ses idées. UN livre à lire absolument et à offrir."
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Swiss-born type designer Annik Troxler created the travel dingbat font Traffic (2002, Niklaus Troxler).
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Arial: ein Nekrolog
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German article by Ralf Turtschi (Swiss, b. 1955) on the history of Arial from its genesis in 1982 as a Helvetica "clone" to its present status as most-used font. Ralf goes on to warn his readers that Microsoft is repeating history by pushing, very soon, its own Segoe, a Frutiger clone. Notable German quotes in which he performs a damning autopsy on Arial: Die Arial ist weder als Textschrift noch als Headlineschrift zu empfehlen, da fehlt einiges an Klasse. [...] Eine unausgeglichene Laufweite, also die Proportionen und der Abstand zwischen den Zeichen, gibt der Arial einem miserablen Grauwert. Das Verhältnis von schwarzen Linien und weissen Flächen lässt sie plump und charakterlos auf dem Papier kleben. Besonders hässlich sind die angeschrägten Endstriche bei a, e, s und t. Die Proportionen und die Form des t sind eine Zumutung und das a sieht wie nach einem Hagelschlag verformt aus. [...] Die Arial ist lieblos, unausgeglichen und verbeult, sie hat mir noch nie Freude bereitet. About the Segoe drama (Trauerspiel), he writes: Die Geschichte wiederholt sich hier, Die Segoe atmet den Geist der Frutiger von Adrian Frutiger, die sich in den 80er-Jahren zur Alternative der viel benutzten Helvetica anbot. Hier springt Microsoft 20 Jahre zu spät dem vermeintlichen Lifestyle nach, und statt eine eigenständige Schrift zu entwickeln, kupfert die Branchenführerin eine der erfolgreichsten und schönsten Schriften ab. Man könnte ja auch eine bestehende Schrift ordentlich lizenzieren. Ein Trauerspiel. So, why did Microsoft not properly license Frutiger from the man himself? After Adobe had to rip off Frutiger with its Myriad, now Microsoft joins the corporate theft business. Why not reward type designers properly? Fontshop joined Turtschi in his analysis. See also this brilliant piece by Fred Nader from 2003.
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Armin Hofmann |
Legendary Swiss type teacher at the Design Institute of Basel. His output includes many fantastic typographic posters. Example.
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Artoftype
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Artoftype in Zürich is run by Swiss typographer Markus Ernst, b. 1966. Designer at URW of Deepspace (2002, writing that aliens would use?), Sepultura (2003, gravestone writing?), Courier-Variationen. Free fonts for Mac and PC: Screenhorn (pixel font), 1873 (erosion font, 2000).
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Attak Fonts
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Attak is a two-headed graphic design firm formed in 2004 by Peter Korsman and Casper Herselman. It is based in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. They have some free and some commercial fonts. Their fonts, ca. 2009: AT AK-47, AT Babyfat, AT Blaser, AT Concours, AT Discipline, AT FFW, AT Helix, AT Hide and Seek, AT Hieronymus, AT Janus Kiep, AT Kerremus, AT Klaxon, AT Korsakopf, AT Litewriter, AT Mepper, AT Mohawk, AT Moker, AT Monoload, AT Muntel, AT Peetroleum, AT Praktikum, AT Promille, AT Ramseier, AT Riot, AT Sirca, AT Sirca alternate, AT Slyper, AT Streeep, AT Tabak, AT T'Atteljeej, AT TCB, AT Trash Bold, AT Willi, AT With Machines, AT Zippora. Notable products: AK-47 simulates Cyrillic; Helix is a stencil face; Muntel and Concours are fat art deco faces; Practicum and Tabak are octagonal; Riot leaks blood; Streep is a multiline font. I presume that Peter is the main font designer in the team, as he already made fonts as early as 2003 for Burodestruct (see, e.g., BD Bardust, downloadable here).
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Swiss designer (b. Lausanne, 1902, d. 1955), who worked for Hoffmann-LaRoche before he went to work at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928. The URW font family Theo Ballmer (2000) is based on his ideas, and was digitized by Theo's grandson Thierry Ballmer. The family has many typical Bauhaus ingredients.
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Aurèle Sack is a globetrotter graphic designer specialized in type design and editorial design. He focuses mainly on projects within the cultural field. After graduating from ECAL in 2004 (with a sans typeface called AS Gold) Sack worked in Zürich and New York. He currently lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. Codesigner in 2006 with Maxime Buechi of a corporate type for NORM called Rhodesia . In 2009, he made AS Garamond in collaboration with Jonas Voegeli, Zürich for Das Magazine. In 2008, Fleurie (typewriter face) was published. Around 2006, he created Omega Bold (a sans, done with Norm in Zürich), Gallery, and Purple (Regular, Italic; a serif face published at Lineto),
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The Basel School of Design (Basel, Switzerland) offers an English-language program called Basics in Design, which spans one or two semesters of study. It includes a letterform design course by Lisa Pomeroy, and Wolfgang Weingart's workshop Basics in Typography, and Layout. German page. Alternate link.
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Swiss typography expert at Microsoft who wrote Visual TrueType, a truetype font hinting program, and who helped out with Cleartype.
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German designer who has his own graphic design studio in Dortmund. Behance link. Creator of a great minimalistic logo face for the Swiss company Swyx (2009).
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Binnenland.Ch
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Swiss foundry which made several (typically Swiss) techno-sans families, such as Regular (originally created by Norm (Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs) as a lucidly structured and fully formulated headline typeface font back in 1999. Later adapted and rounded out by Nik Thoenen to this current version), Relevant (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2007; loosely influenced by 'Record Gothic', created by R. Hunter Middleton for the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1927), T-Star Pro, T-Star TW Pro (typewriter face, Michael Mischler, 2002), and Blender Pro (Nik Thoenen, 2002-2009). Catalog (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2005) is a serif family. FRAC (Nik Thoenen, 2003) is octagonal.
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Swiss type designer from Interlaken who offers one beautiful free script font of his own hand, Excellentia (2005), and, earlier, of Excellentia in excelsis (2000). For 100 Swiss Francs, he will make your handwriting into a font. Alternate URL.
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BP Type Foundry
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B&P Typefoundry
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Type foundry in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 2005 by Ian Party and Maxime Buechi. From 2000-2004, Maxime Buechi studied graphic design & typography at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL). His typefaces include Rhodesia , a private type designed with Aurèle Sack for the book African Sniper (for NORM) in 2003 (it was not used there, but was used instead in the book Periferic 7), and a corporate typeface for the Centre for Curatorial Studies Bard & Hessel Museum, New York (2006, with Ian Party). In 2007, the following BP fonts saw the light: Neutral BP (Kai Bernau, a supposedly neutral sans family), La Police BP, Romain BP and Romain BP Headline (as the creator, Ian Parry, states: Based on the Commission Jeaugeon's models and on Philippe Grandjean's classic character, the Romain BP celebrates the marriage of geometric rationality and elegance, of science and craftsmanship. The Romain BP Text is actually closer to the Commission's model than Grandjean's Romain du Roi. It is more synthetic in its structure, more radical, and thus, more modern. It is a contemporary text typeface based on a structure that was created in 1690, not a revival mimicking Greandjean's shapes.). In 2007, they released Esquire, an upright script headline face. Other fonts are listed on my site under the various designers' names.
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burodestruct (or: Typedifferent.com)
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Workshop held at ECAL in Lausanne in 2008, which resulted in the communal creation of the serif face Bussigny. The contributing participants were Bertrand Emaresi, Carina Frohburg, Dinh Nguyen, Dominique Boessner, Emmanuel Rey, Fabian Widmer, Jean-François Porchez (the leader and supervisor), Mathieu Meyer, Natacha Kirchner, Nicolas Eigenheer, Sarah Kläy, and Sébastien Fontannaz.
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Catharsis
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Swiss web page run by Christian "Cinga" Thalmann, a student at ETH Zürich where we can download his free creations: the great Arab simulation face Catharsis Bedouin (2004) (available here), CatharsisCircular, CatharsisRequiem (a unicase pair), CatharsisRequiemBold, CatharsisCargo, Cirnaja Bookhand and Cirnaja Calligraphy (made for his artificial language, Obrenje), Catharsis Macchiato (2005), CatharsisEspresso (2005). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Another URL.
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Celestino Piatti |
Swiss graphic designer, typographer and illustrator (b. Wangen, 1922). From 1959 on, he designed many postage stamps for the Swiss post office. He does the corporate identity (including type) for Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (1960-), and is best known for murals, posters and over 500 book covers.
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Swiss nonprofit organization (Swiss branch of the YMCA) whose identity sans font, CeviBold (1997), can be freely downloaded.
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Swiss type designer who created Hydrargyrum, Bold&Round, Hopp, Ditter, Dreissiger, Effeu, Halifax1, Kissinger, Manhattan, Moood, Neunziger, Robbery, Rough G, Swirth.
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Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Neuro (2006), Lubmin (2008). He writes: The Lubmin typeface is a product of adaption of a standard character set (by VEB Typoart, Dresden) that was applied on roadname signs in the former Democratic Republic of Germany. It is, as far as documented, a production of early Prussian standard typefaces, which were also pattern for nowadays DIN font. The type went into action in many ways: Road signs, railway and military signals and also car plates; so almost anywhere a functional, easy reproduceable type was needed. The original letters were often different from road sign to road sign, because the signpainters had a variable elaborateness in painting the letters; some shapes are much more angular than others. So it had been a way of finding a compromise in this case. Also some points were interpreted in a new way, curves had been changed a little bit to accord readability aspects; but all in all, the Lubmin type is as original as in the time of the #Iron Curtain#. His future site.
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Swiss typographer (b. 1938). He studied graphic design under Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder at the School of Design, Basel. He operated his own studio from 1964 and co-operated with several different design and advertising agencies, such as GCK in Basel and Mendell & Oberer in Munich. He taught lettering and graphic design from 1972 on at the School of Design, Basel. With André Gürtler and Erich Gschwind, he formed Team 77 in Basel and became deeply involved in most aspects of letterform design and application. His faces include Media (with E. Gschwind and A. Gürtler), Signa and Haas Unica.
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Christof Gassner |
Born in Zürich in 1941, Gassner is professor at the University of Kassel. He designed Vexier (1973), Leopard (1976), Knirsch (1976).
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Swiss type designer, b. 1979, Winterthur. He studied graphic design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern. His typefaces:
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Site run by five guys from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. They designed CombitBox, a modular font of basic blackletter pieces. These pieces fit together to make nice blackletter fonts. Included are André Apel (Zürich), Jan Schöttler (München), Kim Hensler (Villingen), Thomas Wimmer, and Tom Prochnow (Dresden).
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Comedia is a Swiss type magazine established in 2002. It has many interesting articles on typography and type design (in French and German).
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I was told by Philippe Cuendet (the "fondator" (sic)) that this is a foundry established by Laurence Jaccottet, Gregor Schönborn and Niels Wehrspann, and that more fonts will be arriving soon. Font preview. Gregor Schönborn, who is based in Lausanne, made the Rolecks font based on the Rolex logo. Jaccottet and Wehrspann are the designers of the inline AGIP font (2001) based on the logo of AgipPetroli, digitized for the book "Benzin: Junge Schweitzer Graphik".
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Tauted as an "entreprise graphique et utopique", CroCroTraUmAx (the font) was developed in December 1997 during a workshop at écal, école cantonale d'art de Lausanne, Switzerland, organized and headed by Michael Amzalag, Mathias Augustiniak, M/M (Paris) and Cornel Windlin (Zürich). The CroCro Team consists of Angelo Benedetto, Alexandre Bettler, Sara Bochicchio, Anne-Catherine Boehi, Philippe Cuendet, Loic Delcroix, Philippe Desarzens, Ligia Dias, Nicolas Duc, Thomas Egger, Barbara Ehrbar, Aisha Enz, Vincent Greset, Bettina Hempel-Schuster, Cédric Henny, Ivan Liechti, Patrick Monnier, Violaine Pont, Claudia Roethlisberger, Alexandra Ruiz, Dominique Scholl, Gilles Turin, Vincent Turin, Jean-Thomas Vanotti, Niels Wehrspann. Free, Mac only. PC version.
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Born in Zurich in 1973, this graphic designer created the graffiti font Cruze (2003).
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Creator at FontStruct of the minimal Hofmann, in the style that (Swiss type teacher) Armin Hofmann used in one of his posters.
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Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature-poetry, art manifestoes, art theory-theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity - in art and more broadly in society - that corresponded to the war. Dada was anti-art. It is believed that Dadaism started in October 1916 in Zurich where Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire expressing their disgust with the war and the interests that inspired it. In the Netherlands the Dada movement centered mainly around Theo van Doesburg, most well known for establishing the De Stijl movement and magazine of the same name. The dadaists developed some art techniques such as collages, assemblages (3d collages), photomontages, and readymades. Another encyclopedia. German page on Dada's history. Summary.
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DaltonMaag.Com
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Swiss designer Bruno Maag (b. Zürich) founded Dalton Maag in 1991 and designed the commercial fonts Dedica (a didone face), Pan, Plume (2004), Fargo (2004, a humanist sans in 6 weights), Lexia (1999, Ron Carpenter and Dalton Maag), InterFace (extensive sans family; one weight is free (2001)), and the nice display face Royalty. MyFonts write-up. Fonts sold at Fontworks, and through the Bitstream Type Odyssey CD (2001). At the ATypI in 2001 in Copenhagen, he stunned the audience by announcing that he would never again make fonts for the general public. From now on, he would just do custom fonts out of his office in London. And then he delighted us with the world premiere of two custom font families, one for BMW (BMWType, 2000, a softer version of Helvetica, with a more virile "a"; some fonts are called BMWHelvetica), and one for the BMW Mini in 2001 (called MINIType: this family comprises MINITypeRegular-Bold, MINITypeHeadline-Regular, MINITypeHeadline-Bold, MINITypeRegular-Regular). Other custom faces: Tottenham Hotspur (2006), Teletext Signature (by Basten Greenhill Andrews and Dalton Maag), Skoda (Skoda Sans CE by Dalton Maag is based on Skoda Formata by Bernd Möllenstädt and MetaDesign London), UPC Digital, BT (for British Telecommunications), Coop Switzerland (for Coop Schweiz), eircom, Lambeth Council, Tesco (2002), PPP Healthcare, ThyssenKrup (Dalton Maag sold his soul to these notorious arms dealers; TK Type is the name of the house font), Co Headline (2006), Co Text (2006), Telewest Broadband, TUIType, HPSans (for Hewlett-Packard, 1997). His custom Vodafone family (sans) (2005) is based on InterFace. Tephra (2008), a collaboration with Hamish Muir, is an experimental multi-layered LED-inspired family. Magpie (2008) s a serifed family---Dalton Maag was able to trademark the name Magpie despite the fact that Vincent Connare had created a face by that name in 2000. In 2009, he published Effra and Effra Italic, a sans family, as well as Grueber.
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Dani Klauser Grafik Design (or: DKGD)
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Swiss designer (b. 1958, Schaffhausen) and type designer. His typefaces:
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Wil, Switzerland-based creator of a nice type poster of Jan Tschichold.
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Daryl Roske is a British and German national studying and working in Montreux, Switzerland. He studied visual arts at the College Voltaire in Geneva, graduating in 1991. He has carried out identity designs for Buitoni, The Art Center (Europe), the IDRH, and the Federal Office of Civil Aviation. Fobia is his first typeface (Font Bureau). A fun and exciting font, it is also in Robin Williams' book "A Blip in the Continuum" (Peachpit Press).
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Freelance motion designer and art director who grew up in Valencia, Spain, and was born in 1976. He now lives and works in Zurich. Creator of the free geometric font Cubop (2009). Behance link. Dafont link.
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Multimedia designer from Switzerland who runs a brand design company called Dache. Creator of the grunge face Agnoti (2005) and the ballpoint/serif face Hurt Majesty (2006).
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dCTRL
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Andreas A. Lorenz is the Zürich-based designer at dCTRL of the pixel fonts Large (2000) and Fat (2000). For now, available in Mac and PC formats at the HI-TYPE site. Alternate URL at dCTRL (click on portfolio, then downloads).
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Swiss designer (b. 1988) of Simon Script (2005). Alternate URL.
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Design Factory
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Cesar Hernandez is a Peruvian designer who studied in England and makes custom type in Brugg in Switzerland, where he founded Design Factory. A screen font, Loft 04-06 is shown on his home page.
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Design reviver
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Links to 50 nice high quality free fonts. Collected by Mirko Humbert, a freelance designer from Switzerland.
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Dice
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In 1998, Thomas A. Heim (University of Basel, Switzerland) created a metafont called Dice with dice in 2d. There is an accompanying Postscript package as well.
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Dieu et mon droit
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Jas RewkiewiczArmstrong (a revival of Letraset Neil Bold), Didot MAT (serifless Didot tailored for Man About Town magazine), Didot Builder, Eugenie (a didone), LOL (a clean sans), Miranda Sans, Miranda Serif and Roma 1560. He lived in Lausanne but is now in London, where he works as a graphic designer. Normandia Bold (2007) is in the spirit of the extra-black high contrast Didot caps faces. Fournier RD (2007) is his interpretation of the famous Fournier typeface. Doop (2007) is a basic sans made for a client in London. Ultra (2007) is based on a Clarendon, inspired by Beton and finally its borrowing certain details from more extreme fonts like the Gill Sans Ultra Bold and the Maple from Process Type Foundry. Bonbon (2009) is a stylized headline font designed for the unique typographic style of Bon magazine. Industria (2009, Light Italic, Light, and Medium) is a corporate font family of the Saturday Group. Neo Futura Book (2009, in progress) is a contemporary interpretation of Paul Renner's classic.
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DigiType Service |
Digital type software company headed by Ernest Imhof. Based in Switzerland.
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Swiss designer (b. 1969) who publishes his work with URW++. He created Bohemian (URW++, 2002), Parametra, Bavaroir, Organicon, Phenotype. These display fonts have a nice "je ne sais quoi" and lots of oomph. Philip has a Ph.D. in chemistry. Bio at URW.
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A brief description of the school can be found in the article écal-typografie restart (Comedia, edition 04-5/6, 2004). Led by Pierre Keller. The program on the poorly designed web page does not mention anything on typography. However, teachers include Ian Party (who runs BP Foundry).
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Swiss typefounder who made the Haas Typefoundry as the center of the Swiss movement in the design of typefaces in the 1950s. He directed Max Miedinger in the development of Helvetica, and Hermann Eidenbenz in Clarendon.
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Type meeting on November 25, 2006, held at Technopark, Zürich. Speakers: Michel Poffet, Lucas Stähli, Mats Küpfer, Claudia Wildermuth, Félix Müller and Stephan Rappo, Johanna and Peter Bilak, Daniel Janssen, and Yves Zimmermann.
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Swiss font archive with subpages on handwriting, oriental fonts, blackletter, computer fonts, erotic fonts, runic fonts, and gothic fonts.
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Ives Zimmerman (Basel) on the design of the Euro. In Spanish.
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Elektrosmog
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Elektrosmog in reality is a design studio in Zürich, run by Valentin Hindermann and Marco Walser. They designed Storno (1999) at lineto. Still at lineto, they published Brauer in 2000, based on a design by Max Miedinger. I was informed that Brauer was at least partially made by Max Miedinger's nephew, Pierre Miedinger. Marco Walser of Elektrosmog and Philippe Desarzens later developed this tytpeface further into the six weights of LL Brauer Neue.
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Swiss designer at Haas (1906-1948) who made the heavy broad pen script font Bravo (1945) and Chevalier (1946). Bravo was revived in 2007 by ARTypes as Bravo-AR.
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Swiss typographer (b. Zürich 1914, d. Basel, 1970), and type guru in the 50s and 60s. Taught at the Basel School of Design (Kunstgewerbeschule), and founded the International Center for the Typographic Arts in New York, 1962. Author of Typographie: Ein Gestaltungslehrbuch - A Manual of Design - Un Manuel de Creation (Teufen: Niggli, 1967), and Typographie. Ein Gestaltungslehrbuch. Mit über 500 Beispielen (7th edition in 2001, Niggli). The Road to Basel (Helmut Schmid) is an homage to Emil Ruder by Helmut Schmid, one of Ruders students, who headed a group of other ex-students and organized their contributions. The former students who participated are Harry Boller, Roy Cole, Heini Fleischhacker, Fritz Gottschalk, André Gürtler, Hans-Jürg Hunziker, Hans-Rudolf Lutz, Fridolin Müller, Marcel Nebel, Åke Nilsson, Bruno Pfäffli, Will van Sambeek, Helmut Schmid, Peter Teubner, Wolfgang Weingart, and Yves Zimmermann. Karl Gerstner and Kurt Hauert also contributed. Paul Shaw reviews this book and Ruder's contributions. Quotes from Shaw's piece:
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Swiss designers of the pixel font Large9 (2006).
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Emmanuel Rey |
Swiss student of Ian Party at ECAL in Lausanne, who created Tabloid (2007), a contemporary condensed sans serif font family, specifically designed to be used in big size for newspaper headlines. It comes in ten weights from UltraLight to UltraBlack.
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EPFL
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Study typography, raster imaging, font recognition and related matters under the supervision of Roger Hersch at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland).
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ERACOM is the Ecole romande d'art et communication de Lausanne. The program has one course on typography and one half course on type design.
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Born in Zürich, 1945. Trained as compositor (lead) and as Monotype keyboard operator. Studied Typography and Type from 1969-1971 at the Basel Gewerbeschule under Robert Büchler (the director was Emil Ruder) and André Gürtler. Instructor for type apprentices in Basel, and free-lance book designer in Zürich and Cham/Zug since the 80s. Owner and publisher and editor at Syntax Press (which he founded in 1964) and later at Syndor Press Cham/Switzerland from 1996-2002. He sold Syndor Press in 2002 to Niggli Verlag Sulgen. Editor of several books by Adrian Frutiger, Hans Ed. Meier and René Groebli (a photographer). Author of "Adrian Frutiger Formen und Gegenformen/Forms and counterforms" (Cham, 1998), "Adrian Frutiger Lebenszyklus/Life cycle" (Cham, 2000), and An Introduction to the History of Printing Types (London, 1998; the original publication was in 1961). He continues to spend much of his time assisting Frutiger, Andrél Gürtler, H.E. Meier, Alfred Hoffmann and other important figures in Swiss typography who are also his close friends.
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Designer based in Basel of ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book Oblique, one of many Oblique weights made by Gschwind in 1977 for ITC. Forms Team 77 with André Gürtler and Christian Mengelt. At Autologic, those three designers published Media (1976) and Signa (1978).
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Erich Oswald at ETH Zürich developed several pieces of software, such as OType (free open source), "a package for loading and rendering TrueType fonts within Oberon, comparable to the Freetype project." Also, Gfx, a high-level graphics library that allows one to create EPS files.
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Swiss designer (b. 1932, Zürich of Friz Quadrata (1965, Visual Graphic Corp). It was released by ITC in 1974. The bold weight was added by Vic Caruso. Two italics were created by Thierry Puyfoulhoux in 1994. Finally, a Cyrillic version was developed at ParaGraph in 1997 by Alexander Tarbeev. Friz studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule under Rudolf Bircher and Walter Käch. He created his own graphic art studio in Zürich where he practiced typography, symbol and logo creation, and packaging design. Friz Quadrata is part of the Linotype library.
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Essences of Design
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Great commercial dingbats by Swiss designer Giada Ghiringhelli (b. 1981): Nav2000v1, JustFrames, Buttons Galore, Interfaces (borders). Linkware: Essbuttons, Essornaments, Esssolare, Essgem, EssInterfaces, EssFrames, EssNav1, WWW Trinkets. MyFonts link.
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Eugène Samuel Grasset |
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Swiss designer (b. 1916, Scherzingen) of Profil (Haas, 1946, with his brother Max Lenz). Associated in the late 40s and 50s with Haas. Profil is a set of inclined rimmed capitals and numbers.
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Swiss outfit that published OCR-B in 1966, Adrian Frutiger's rounded and human readable counterpart to OCR-A. One of Frutiger's rare failures.
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed Concrete, Puzzle, Museefont (octagonal), and Helveliga (with Jerome Rigaud and Sylvain Aerni). He created the stencil face Montana at Optimo/Gavillet & Rust.
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A Swiss designer and type designer (b. 1970, Basel), who made Cisalpin [also called Cassini in its earlier grotesque life, 1999-2000] , a typeface for cartography, which was published it with Linotype in 2004. Pic.
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Zürich-based esign firm of Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard, who designed interesting fonts (no sales or downloads though): Bundesrat (2006, octagonal), Macaroni (2006: letters from circles), Courier Fleurie (2006), Flop (2006). Both graduated from HGK Zürich in 2002.
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Swiss designer of PixelFJ (2003). See also here. Now also pix PixelFJVerdana12pt (2003) and pix PixelFJDuke16pt (2004), pix-PixelFJDeath16pt (2004). Alternate URL.
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A collective of mostly Swiss type designers who showcase their designs. The designers are Aimee Hoving, Franz Hoffman, Jacques Borel, Harry Bloch, Matthias Gehri, Sylvain Aerni, Jacques Dousse, Thomas Eberwein, Juerg Lehni, Fabian Monod, Émilie Renault, Jérôme Rigaud and Pierre Terrier. No downloads yet. The list of fonts: Jawut (2002, Franz Hoffman, Juerg Lehni, Jérôme Rigaud, Pierre Terrier): a face inspired by André Baldinger's Newut / Puzzle (Fabian Monod) / Troyd (Sylvain Aerni) / Encoda MM (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Encoda Anfang (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Absinthia (Sylvain Aerni) / Punebot (Sylvain Aerni) / Alchemia (Sylvain Aerni) / Basicrounded (Sylvain Aerni) / Bacted_Flagada_Trigger (Sylvain Aerni): a dirty look font / Crux (Jacques Dousse): a gothic bitmap font / Frankental (Jacques Dousse): a dot matrix font / Multitool (Jacques Dousse): a dingbat font with firemen's tools / Hexagonipus (Jacques Dousse): a kitchen tile font based on lettering on Spitfires / TGV (Jérôme Rigaud) / Lafrui (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected lettering font / Plan De Paris (Jérôme Rigaud): lettering from an old plan of Paris / ScriptedPix (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected screen font / Rhizompix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / Pix2x (Jérôme Rigaud): an experimental screen font / Condpix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / handled_Matrix (Jérôme Rigaud): a dirty screen font / Soul&Funk (2002, Jérôme Rigaud) / Russian (2002, Jérôme Rigaud): a cyrillic simulation font / mtrxs (Sylvain Aerni and Jérôme Rigaud): a dot matrix font / wellKrau (Pierre Terrier and Jérôme Rigaud): an irregularly tiled font / Minaco (Thomas Eberwein): a screen font family / Tilt (Thomas Eberwein): a dot matrix font.
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FONTSELF
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Lausanne-based type site related to a project conceived and designed by two graphic designers, Franz Hoffman and Pierre Terrier from studio koilinen, and a software developer, Marc Escher. A quote: It provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.) It appears that one can create, with their software (not downloadable, not for sale--go figure), a bitmap font. This, in turn can be used to simulate handwriting. Fonts (format unclear, not downloadable) include grunge faces (Agrotesk, Linexspray), handwriting (Psycho, Mascara, Meriem, Bic, Ehcadnarac, Manu, Signo, Manuscript), and scanned text faces (Baskerville, Garabig, Franklin Multi, Sabon, Gothique, Dido).
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Dario Nuevo's big and well-organized font archive. It is very careful about what is posted, so don't expect to find commercial goodies here. Alternate URL. Still another URL. One more URL.
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Foundations of Typography B
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A so-called web poster exhibition by René Wanner (Switzerland), who runs a quite complete poster page, on the theme of the letter B.
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Swiss boy scout and designer of MorseCode (1999), which can be downloaded here.
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François Rappo |
Swiss designer located at Lake Geneva, who created the gorgeous revival family Didot Elder (published at Optimo, 2004), which is based on work by Pierre Didot from 1819. He created the stylish typewriter family CEO (2005, Optimo). At B&P Foundry, he published the serif famile LaPolice BP (2007-2008).
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Franco Bonaventura |
Zürich-based creator of the dot matrix face called Bubbles (1996, Garcia Fonts) and of the curly typeface Loop (1996).
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed Jawut (2002, with Pierre Terrier, Juerg Lehni, and Jérôme Rigaud: a face inspired by André Baldinger's Newut).
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FS Design
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Gavillet & Rust
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Gavillet & Rust is a design company based in Geneva. It was founded in 2002 by Gilles Gavillet and David Rust, two ECAL (University of Art & Design Lausanne) alumni. Now a four people studio, they develop projects for a range of institutional and private clients such as JRP|Ringier, Zürich and the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). Their type, poster and book designs have been awarded numerous times at the Swiss design awards. In 2006, they received the Jan Tschichold Prize from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture. Type designs include Executive, Cargo, Hermes, Index, Montana and Politics. Associated with Optimo in Lausanne.
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Gemjm
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Young Swiss designers Alessandro Volz and Jona Mantovan made some freeware/shareware fonts in 1997/1998: Joal, Gemypt, Sephiroth, HiSky, Pinkpixel, LaScrituraDalMeNono (5USD), SmartHand (10USD).
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German creator of the artistic ultra-fat face Lettres Carrées (2009) and of Mono (2009). Gian Wickj architecture, a site in Switzerland.
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Ex-student of the University of Art & Design Lausanne (Ecal) and the Cranbrook Academy of Arts. Geneva-based designer at the Lausanne-based foundry Optimo. With Cornel Windlin at lineto in Zürich, he co-designed these fonts in 1999: Pixel Crude, Vectrex, GravurCondensed, Pixel World, Vectrex World (skyline dingbats), Liquid Crystal and Supermax. Did Autologic (1997, created as a shortcut to make logos), DetroitMM (1997), Kornkuh, Lineto (2001, an octagonal font), Kabin, Chip at Optimo. With David Rust, he cofounded Gavillet & Rust in Geneva in 2002, and co-created these fonts in 2003: Cargo (a stencil face), Hermes (a typewriter family), Index and Politics. In 2004, he created the stencil family Montana (Optimo). In 2005, he and Rust added Hermes Sans to the Hermes family. In 2007, this was followed by Executive, a simple sans family.
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Swiss vendors of the "1000 NewDeal Fonts CD by GOCE 1000" for 40 Swiss francs. Reportedly, this contains the Optifont collection.
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Grotesk
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Design bureau in Geneva, Switzerland. Here, Kimou Meyer and Vincent Sahli made Cointrin (1998), a font based on the old arrival boards at Geneva's airport. Other fonts: Synchrovision, Tricot, Sumo.
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Guerilla Grafik
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From Biel, Switzerland, Thomas Balmer's outfit, Guerilla Grafik, offers a few free fonts for download. The page is extremely dangerous (it will take over your screen!), with pop-ups and uncontrollable things happening left and right. Be prepared for a reboot. Anyway, if you risk it, you may find these mostly pixel fonts: GG-Motor, GG-Realpx, GG-Nintendo, GG-Digitalareal, GG-KGB. Working on the simple sans serif face GGrapidograph (2002). Non-free fonts: GG-Modul, GG-Formular, GG-Vektor, GG-Eckhardt, GG-Info, GG-Zike, GG-Balmer, GG-Sanchezclone. Mac fonts only.
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Swiss designer of the pixel face Atari (2007). Alternate URL.
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Swiss type designer, born in 1922 in Horgen am Zürichsee. Created ITC Syndor book, Barbedor (1987), Syntax (originally 1955; first released in 1968-1972; the modern Bitstream version is called Humanist 531, and it is an example of a humanist sans serif; see also Saxony and S841 Sans on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), Oberon (1994; as an OEM for Institut fuer Computersysteme in Zürich; in February 2004, it will be available from Elsner&Flake as OberonEF), Barbetwo, Syntax-Letter, Lapidar, Neue Syntax, mostly while at ETH Zürich. He also designed the school fonts BasisSchrift Eins EF (2002), ABCSchrift Drei EF (2002), ABCSchrift Eins EF and ABCSchrift Zwei EF, and the calligraphic family Elysa EF (2002). In his own words: "Es entstanden die Druckschriften Barbedor, Syndor, Oberon und die Entwürfe für Barbetwo, Syntax-Letter und Lapidar sowie verschiedene Fonts mit mathematischen Zeichen für den Gebrauch am Institut." Superb analysis of his life and contributions by Roxane Jubert (in French). Linotype Syntax, a reworking of his original Syntax, earned him a Bukvaraz 2001 award. Check also Linotype Syntax Lapidar (2000). His latest project is a school script for handwriting.
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Born in 1929 in Balm/Lotstetten, Germany. He studied typefounding in Schaffhausen from 1944-1948, and worked as typesetter in printing shops in Zürich and Stockholm from 1951-1959. From 1959-1994, he taught typographic design in various schools, and from 1993-1998, he was a free-lance book designer associated with Niggli. Author of "Der typografische Raster The Typographic Grid" (Zürich, 2000), and "Typografie Schrift Lesbarkeit" (Verlag Niggli AG, Switzerland, 1996). The latter (highly recommended) book surveys legibility issues in type choices, and closes with a classification of post-1945 typefaces.
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Designed Deadtype (1999, dingbats consisting of metal parts of a typewriter, 1999) at lineto. Probably Swiss. Web page.
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Typographer (b. 1938, Switzerland, based in Paris) who studied typesetting in Zürich from 1954-1958. Later he studied with Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann in Basel (1965-1967). From 1967-1971, he was a type designer with Mergenthaler Linotype in Brooklyn, NY, where he worked with Matthew Carter. From 1971-1975, he worked with Frutiger in Paris, and became a freelance designer in 1976. From 1990-2006, he led some labs at the Atelier de Recherche Typographique, NRT, in Nancy. From 1998-2002, he had his own design bureau together with Ursula Held: Atelier H. He has also taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zürich. He designed CGP (used in Centre Georges Pompidou; 1974-94, with Jean Widmer), Cyrillic (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger for IBM Composer), Frutiger (in 1976 with Adrian Frutiger at Stempel), Gando Ronde (a formal script, with Matthew Carter in 1970; Linotype), Helvetica (with Matthew Carter in 1970; Linotype), Iera Arabic and Iera Roqa Arabic (1983, Institut d'étude et de recherches pour l'arabisation; Honeywell Bull), Metro (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger; used in the RATP), Univers and Univers Cyrillic (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger; Linotype), and the Siemens custom type family (in 2001, a cooperation with URW). Siemens, the project he is best known for, won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002.
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Swiss typographer (b. Zürich, 1939, d. 1998). He had his own studio, Lutz Verlag, in Zürich. He published books such as "Typoundso" and "Ausbildung in typografischer Gestaltung". He taught at the schools of design in Zürich and Luzern for over thirty years, and founded the typography department in Luzern in 1968.
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Happypets is an experimental lab of graphic designers based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Type experiments only. No fonts.
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Heidrun Osterer |
Heidrun Osterer (b. 1966, Switzerland) is a graphic designer and CEO of Feinherb Visuelle Gestaltung. She is also the co-founder of the Swiss Foundation Type and Typography. In addition, she is a part-time lecturer of screen typography at the Vocational School of Design in Zürich. Consultant of the Swiss Typographic Magazine STM. Since 2001, she carried out research on the professional career of Adrian Frutiger. Her book, coauthored with Philipp Stamm, on Frutiger's life is Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces The Complete Works (2009, Birkhäuser). She spoke about this work at ATypI 2008 in Petersburg.
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Heiwid |
Designer of BD Reihalle (2007, Burodestruct) and BD Halfpipe (2007, Burodestruct).
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Helmut Schmid |
Author of Japanische Typographie und Schweizer Typographie, published in Comedia, edition 03-1, 2003.
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Linotype's Helvetica, itself derived from Haas Grotesk, has a large number of clones, some of which I will attempt to list here (see Jacci Howard Bear's list for other fonts as well):
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Swiss type designer (b. Cannanore, India, 1902, d. Basel, 1993). He was associated with the Haas type foundry, where he made Clarendon Roman (1952-1953), LA 39 Alphabet, and the shaded outline font Graphique (1946). Eidenbenz designed numerous posters, logos, and Swiss and German bank notes. From 1932 until 1953, he and his brother Reinhold and Willy ran a graphics studio in Basel. From 1955 until 1967, he was art director at the Reemtsma company in Hamburg. Graphique-AR (2007) is a shadowed typeface by ARTypes that is a digital version of a type designed by Hermann Eidenbenz and issued by the Haas foundry in 1946. Pic.
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School in Zürichwhere one can study typography.
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Typographer, architect, designer and type designer, b. Versec, Hungary, 1900, d. Lugano, Switzerland, 1987. He emigrated from Hungary, and studied at the Staatliche Bildhauerschule Zalatua, the Kunstgewerbeschule Frankfurt, and the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, where Prof. F. H. Ernst Schneidler was his teacher. After a brief stint (1923-1925) as a graphic designer in London, Paris, New York and Chicago, he returned to study with Schneidler, and from 1931 onwards, he worked in Ruvigliana near Lugano as painter, graphic designer and illustrator. His list of fonts includes:
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Design firm of Tiziana Haug, a Swiss designer who lives in New York. Tiziana has made some custom type such as Typographica (2001, a circle and crosshair dingbat face) and a folded paper-theme alphabet font in 2007 called ADC Paper Expo. Other faces: Built (2005), Home Sweet Home (2005, stitching face), Trace (2004, Neon light simulation).
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Ingrama
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Defunct foundry in Vevey (Switzerland) which produced Raleigh (1977, now a Bitstream font family) and Seagull (1978, Adrian Williams, Bob McGrath; now also a Bitstream font). Raleigh's story as told by MyFonts.com: Started by Carl Dair. After Dair's death, David Anderson redrew the design for Typsettra, where it was renamed Raleigh. Adrian Williams at Fonts added three weights as a display series for Conways, while Robert Norton drew the text series. Ingrama was run by Peter Henninger out of Vevey, Switzerland. SoftMaker claims that its art deco family Expressa (1994), its text family Lingwood (1994), its Accolade family, its Leamington roman serif family (based on Adrian Williams' Leamington, 1978), its Pasadena (1994), its Helium RR (1994), its Digital Serial (1994), its square sans family Diamante (1994) and its Casablanca family (1994) were also made by Ingrama. However, Lingwood EF (Elsner & Flake) has a date of 1974 associated with it, so I do not know who made the first Lingwood!
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Zürich-based corporate identity and branding company. Designers of the Telekom corporate fonts Tele Antiqua, Tele Grotesk, Tele Logo. These fonts were done in cooperation with URW++, where you can also purchase them.
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Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Crux (a gothic bitmap font), Frankental (a dot matrix font), Keytype, Frankental (LED simulation), Padsans (dot matrix), Padtype (dot matrix), Multitool (a dingbat font with firemen's tools), Hexagonipus (a kitchen tile font based on lettering on Spitfires), Code.
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Swiss [T-26] designer of Broken Screen (2004, blackletter pixel face), Diphtong (2003), Blockletter (2009, arched letters), Tivoli (2006, sans family in four styles), Hive (2000, dot matrix face), Ruota (2003, two wheel dingbat fonts), Yr-72 (2000), Jakone (2000, a fantastic techno headline face), DPI (2001, dot matrix font). Home page.
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Lausanne-based designer who is working on this triangularly-serifed gothic face (2006).
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Born in Leipzig (1902), died in Locarno, Switzerland (1974). Influential German type designer whose typefaces include these:
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest (which he cofounded in 2002 with Pierre Schmidt & Fritz Menzer while studying at ECAL) who designed these fonts at Font Nest: TGV, Lafrui (a connected lettering font), Plan De Paris (lettering from an old plan of Paris), ScriptedPix (a connected screen font), Rhizompix (a screen font), Pix2x (an experimental screen font), Condpix (a screen font), handled_Matrix (a dirty screen font), Soul&Funk (2002), Russian (2002, a cyrillic simulation font), mtrxs (with Sylvain Aerni: a dot matrix font), wellKrau (with Pierre Terrier: an irregularly tiled font), Helveliga (with Fabian Monod and Sylvain Aerni), Jawut OT (with Pierre Terrier, Franz Hoffmann, and Juerg Lehni), Circulaheute, Courrierbitmap. He is a digital editor and designer. With Pierre Schmidt and Fritz Menzer he created Electronest (a company). In 2008, he created the experimental type family Futura Domus. Alternate URL. Currently, Rigaud is a London-based artist, designer, digital editor and technologist producing both design and art work for companies, collectors, and institutions. He has a continuing interest in going beyond the traditional boundaries of the art, business, science and technology fields through hybrid collaborations. His type design blog.
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French type designer and punchcutter, 1580-1658, who has some typefaces named after him. Frantisek Storm writes this: "The engraver Jean Jannon ranks among the significant representatives of French typography of the first half of the 17th century. He was born in 1580, apparently in Switzerland. He trained as punch-cutter in Paris. From 1610 he worked in the printing office of the Calvinist Academy in Sedan, where he was awarded the title "Imprimeur de son Excellence et de l'Academie Sédanoise". He began working on his own alphabet in 1615, so that he would not have to order type for his printing office from Paris, Holland and Germany, which at that time was rather difficult. The other reason was that not only the existing type faces, but also the respective punches were rapidly wearing out. Their restoration was extremely painstaking, not to mention the fact that the result would have been just a poor shadow of the original elegance. Thus a new type face came into existence, standing on a traditional basis, but with a life-giving sparkle from its creator. In 1621 Jannon published a Roman type face and italics, derived from the shapes of Garamond's type faces. As late as the start of the 20th century Jannon's type face was mistakenly called Garamond, because it looked like that type face at first sight. Jannon's Early Baroque Roman type face, however, differs from Garamond in contrast and in having grander forms. Jannon's italics rank among the most successful italics of all time ? They are brilliantly cut and elegant." Many of today's Garamond style typefaces are in fact due to Jannon.
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Joe Scerri Design
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Joe A. Scerri is a British born Maltese-Australian graphic designer based in Zürich Switzerland. Since graduating with a diploma from Central Metrolpolitan College of Visual Art in Perth Western Australia in 1990, he has worked in publishing, multimedia, advertising and design, both in Sydney and in Basel. For the Spanish magazine Neo2, Joe Scerri created the free experimental dotted line face Kassette (2006). In 2005, he made the experimental face Faena (no download).
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Swiss designer of OCR-A (2008), Atari Small (2007), Beteckna (2007), modeled after Paul Renner's Futura. He had help of Gürkan Sengün. Supported by the Free Software Foundation license, it comes in these styles: Beteckna, BetecknaLowerCase, BetecknaLowerCaseBold, BetecknaLowerCaseCondensed, BetecknaLowerCaseItalic, BetecknaSmallCaps. Alternate URL. Home page.
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Jonas Williamsson (Reala) is the designer associated with Lineto who created Biff (1999, a 3-d face inspired by New York graffiti) and Tablettenschrift (1999, a 3-d blocky face, based on the logo of PEZ candies). Jonas graduated in graphic design and illustration from Konstfack University College of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockholm 1999. He is a founding member of "reala", an art and poetry collective based in Stockholm.
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Swiss typographer and book designer. His publications include "Book Design: Theory and Practice", "Detail in typography" (Agfa Compugraphic, Wilmington, 1987), "Designing Books" (with Robin Kinross, 1996), "Book typography" (Agfa Compugraphic, Wilmington, 1990), "Jost Hochuli's Alphabugs" (Agfa Compugraphic, Wilmington, 1990), "Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books", "Buchgestaltung in der Schweiz", "Kleine Geschichte der geschriebenen Schrift" (Verlag Typophil, St. Gallen, 1991, Agfa Compugraphic-Reihe), "Das Detail in der Typographie. Buchstaben, Buchstabenabstand, Wort, Wortabstand, Zeile, Zeilenabstand, Kolumne" (Compugraphic Corp., Wilmington, 1987), "Bücher machen. Eine Einführung in die Buchgestaltung, im besonderen in die Buchtypographie" (Compugraphic Corp, Wilmington, 1989). Winner of the Gutenberg Prize in 1999.
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Swiss co-designer with Urs Lehni and Rafael Koch of Lego (1999) at lineto. He studies in Lausanne. His projects such as Vectorama and Scriptographer combine graphic design with programming. Scriptographer provides a scripting language as an aid to and an extension of Adobe Illustrator. About the Lego font, he writes: "I was not involved in the creation of the font itself. I wrote the lego font creator as a sort of a interactive font specimen for the lineto site. Later, the tool grew to a real little application with eps vector output."
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Swiss-American designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for the slab serif face Tourist. He works at MetaDesign in San Francisco.
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Julien Gaillardot |
Born in Grésivaudan valley in France, Julien Gaillardot went to Lausanne to study graphic design at the University of Art & Design Lausanne (Ecal) in Switzerland. He now lives and works in Avignon, France. Designer of PharmaFont (2001) while he was a student at ECAL. Now available as (2007, Optimo).
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Julmeme
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Foundry in Tokyo. Creators of the the techno faces Julmeme Kun (2009) and Kaminari Kun (2009). The foundry is run by Swiss-born Julien Mercier (b. 1983), who works as a graphic designer in Tokyo.
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Swiss calligraphy awards with beautiful work by Helga Ladurner, Annikki Rigendinger, Gabriella Garbognani, Annemarie Grunder, and Elisabeth Megnet.
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Born in Basel in 1930, Gerstner designed Gerstner Programm (1967), Privata, and Gerstner Original (1987, Berthold; see Gerling on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), as well as the Akzidenz-Grotesk family (1962, Berthold) and Akzidenz-Grotesk Buch (see Atkins on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002). He is best known for his eccentricity in design, and his use of equally eccentric type (often Grotesk) to accompany his designs. "The designer as programmer Karl Gerstner Review of 5x10 Years of Graphic Design" is a book on Gerstner's influence as a designer, edited by Manfred Kröplien Hatje Cantz. He was trained under Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder at the School of Design in Basel. He co-founded the advertising agency GCK which has been responsible for a number of promotional campaigns and corporate identities. His books include Integral Typography (1959), The New Graphic Art (1959), Designing Programs (1963), and Compendium for Literates (1970). In 1972, an entire issue of Typografische Monatsblatter was devoted to Gerstner. Also in 1972, he wrote Kompendium für Alphabeten (last edition: 2000). BERTLib now sells his KG Privata and KG Vera type families (Vera is a new name). Berthold markets his extensive sans family Gerstner Next (2007, with Dieter Hofrichter), which is based on Gerstner Original BQ (1987).
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Swiss designer at RGB107,6 of the handwriting font Omen.
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Swiss designer of Teacher's Pet (2008), a kid's handwriting font.
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Kiwi (1998) is a family of type 1 fonts that used to be available at this Swiss company. At the parent directory, we could find the FlumRoc fonts. All that seems to be gone now.
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Kombinat Typefounders
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This Dutch-Swiss foundry (est. 2001) offers interesting font families: Feisar (Paul van der Laan), N&M Hornet (Neeser+Müller), N&M Punkt Schrift (Neeser+Müller), Blocker, InterPol, InterSerif, InterForm (dingbats), H-Stamps, Tieshy, Bubblejet on Steroids, Plantijn (Legib, Legib Small Caps, B-Form, Paradox), and Kugelkopf Letter. Another designer is Hannes Famira. The initial crew also contained Martijn Rijven, but his name is longer there.
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Kontour
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Swiss designer Sibylle Hagmann (b. 1965) runs Kontour, est. 2000. She designed Odile (2005, Kontour, also released at Village), Twin Cities (2002, Kontour: an octagonal face), Cholla (a sans family, a slab family, a wide family and a unicase subfamily; in 1999 at Emigre). Odile is based on an experimental typeface of W.A. Dwiggins. With a BFA in 1989 from the Basel School of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia in 1996, she became art director of the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles, and she is now working as a designer and art director for institutional publications and she teaches at the University of Houston in the graphic communications program. Cholla won at bukvaraz 2001. She also won an award at Granshan 2008. CV. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link.
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The Group Scout La Roselière (Switzerland) created a free TrueType Morse font and a free hieroglyphs (sic) font.
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Laika
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Based in Bern, Nicolas Kunz and Michael Flückiger developed the multiparameter family Laika in 2009. It has five parameters, italic angle, weight, serif radius (at the heel), serif length, and contrast. A fun applet lets you play with this multiple master font in the five-dimensional space.
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Lars Müller edited the book HELVETICA---Homage to a typeface (Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, Swtzerland, 2002). Alternate URL.
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Laurence Jaccottet works at //copy// in Lausanne. Laurence Jaccottet and Niels Wehrspann are the designers of the inline AGIP font (2001) based on the logo of AgipPetroli, digitized for the book "Benzin: Junge Schweitzer Graphik".
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Designer at Lineto of fonts such as Pez, a block letter font (1999). He lives and works in London, after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 2000.
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Workshop held in Lausanne in December 2005, in which Porchez supervised the development of three typefaces, Bussigny, Ligats and Regina (modular).
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Swiss architect whose lettering inspired the Letraset rubdown dry transfer face Charrette. This face exists in digitized form (extended) as Modular Stencil fonts by Gregory La Vardera, and as Le Corbusier by Nico Schweizer.
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Type workshop held on November 17, 2007 in Lugano. Speakers: Andreu Balius, Patrick Thomas, Alessandro Segalini, Tarek Atrissi.
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Letterwerk
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lineto
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Swiss logo type service outfit located in Winterthur. Makes truetype fonts for money. Free demo font Logo (1997).
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Lorenzo Geiger Typewerk
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Swiss designer who made the commercial families Bastard (6-weight grotesk), Dinomono (typewriter, monospaced) and Trans-Am (octagonal). Born in 1982 in Bern, Geiger studied visual communication at the BFH Haute Ecole des Arts de Berne from 2002-2007 and did an internship with Philippe Apeloig in Paris. He works in Bern. MyFonts link. Behance link.
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Designer from St. Gallen, Switzerland, b. 1982. He created the blackletter face Helvedding (2009). Home page.
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Swiss typographer and graphic designer who creates new typefaces out of old ones.
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Designer at burodestruct in Bern of Stereotype (1998).
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Swiss type designer, b. 1973. Creator of Albis (2005, squarish, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), Dorfbeiz (2009, HI), Idol (2004, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), V&A-Outline (2003, Graphic Thought Facility). All her typefaces are in the orbit of DIN and VAG Rounded.
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Norm is a graphic design studio in Zürich, run by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs. They designed Simple (2000), Normetica (1999, a monospace font family) and Prima (1999) at lineto.
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Freelance Swiss designer (b. Bern, 1978) who graduated in 2004 in visual communication from the Hochschule de Künste in Bern. Creator of the typefaces 3x3-block, 3x3-flat, 3x3-italic, 3x3-outline, 3x3 (2001) and Rotor (2003, sans). He also made Radion (2006), a minimalist futuristic typeface. Alternate URL.
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Swiss designer (b. Zürich, 1961) of the successful sans serif families Linotype Mano (1988) and Linotype Veto (1994). He works as an artist in Zürich.
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Cofounder with Valentin Hindermann of the design bureau Elektrosmog in Zürich. They designed Storno (1999) at lineto. Still at lineto, with Philippe Desarzens, they published LL Brauer Neue in 2000, based on a design by Pierre Miedinger.
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Markus Ernst Typografischer Gestalter
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Swiss graphic and type designer Markus Ernst did an internship with Bruno Maag in London in 2003, and set up Artoftype, where he created Screenhorn (free pixel face), 1873 (free eroded face), Deep Space (2002, URW, writing that aliens would use?), Sepultura ((2003, URW, gravestone writing?), and Courier-Variationen. He also made corporate type for K-Tipp and Blick. Ernst is based in Zürich. URW++ link.
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Martin Fehle | Born in 1925, died in 2008. Former president of ATypI who was also a board member of a Swiss chocolate company. Unknown to most, he supported many ATypI meetings privately, behind the scenes. I quote a text written by Erich Alb in 2008 which describes part of the history of ATypI: [...] There was never an official language [at ATypI]. But since it was a Swiss based society/association with international focus it was clear and normal, language would be english, french and german. I have a programm from the Budapest congress 1992 in hand, which is printed both in english and german. - Lectures and the General Meeting in the Annual Congress was mostly in english, and has been simultaniously (!!) translated by Gertraude Benöhr, Secretary for Walter Greisner at Stempel Foundry (she worked later in the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft Mainz for decades). I remember in the 70's, when John Dreyfus organized lectures and speaking in the General Assembly, he did that in english and french himself. This was the same when Martin Fehle (also a former President) organized the Meetings. - During the Paris congress mid 80's we all visited the National Museum, when I was translating infos from the guide simultaneously into English and German. Big changes came with Type'90, when a huge load of Americans attended the congress, and from then on suddenly english became the "official language". From that year onwards no translations were done anymore. (Occasionally some professsional simultan-translators have been organized like at Rome, but this has cost a fortune). Sponsoring: It never has been said in public, that prior to Type'90 mostly Type foundries (Haas'sche, Linotype, Agfa et.al) paid/sponsored the congress, and reasonable congress fees were payable by some 100 to 150 attendees. The financer and Board member of a Swiss chocolate company, Mr Fehle, was sponsoring congress' to a large amount from his own pocket, when Foundries closed one after the other. Fehle never wanted people to know that he was helping out, but by being quiet it probably led many guys to think, that the type companies were paying for all of ATypI. Only insiders knew the truth. And that gave a false perspective to the new people taking over ATypI about how the finances were. (BTW: The word "sponsoring" started in late 80's I think, and if one had an idea, he was looking for sponsors first. But earlier we've had an idea and just did it (!), looking afterwards how we maybe could raise some money). Changes came early 90's when the organization needs lots of members to be able to afford fancy conferences. And to get lots of attendees they have to do entertainment ... Earlier Mr Fehle helped bankroll ATypI for many years. An incredible story. But no one knew it (except the Swiss) and so he was treated very rudely. An embarrassment. - Around Christmas '07 his wife died after many years of illness, and Mr Fehle looked after her for a long time. He is now in bad health himself. I always wanted to see him for an interview re early years in ATYPI, but he was too busy as "nurse". I still feel bad for what happened to him at ATypI. That is the reason I'm not member anymore since a few years. Beside that, I didn't like the fancy conferences (in contrast to the serious ones we've had with 100 engaged attendees). After Fehle's death, Alb wrote this to the type board: Mr. Fehle was a very gentle person. He was a long standing member of the Board for Lindt & Sprüngli chocolate company in his home town Kilchberg/Zürich (Switzerland). With his great know how on finance and organisation he was an important consultant. Furthermore he worked for Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Type foundry) for almost 30 years, being responsible for the whole licening business and financial consulting. For about 8 years he was President of ATypI end of 80s to early 1990s. He spoke german/french/english, but his english was a bit funny to listen. American members (many joining because of Type 87 and Type90) did not take him seriously and got a bit suspicious who Fehle was. Martin Fehle had been generously financing ATypI. He organized with his close friend Alfred Hoffmann the congress at Basle which was mainly sponsored by Fehle, but also many congresses have been paid by Martin Fehle - probably not many knew that. He wasn't the man to make a big fuss about his own public relation. Sadly he never was accepted much at ATypI, but his big involvement was for Sprüngli chocolate, Haas'sche, and also for the liberal Party in his home town. At his time for ATypI the organization seemed sclerotic and he got voted out. The old board probably never believed they would be booted out. It was a real shame. I have felt very bad for Martin Fehle. He was a great man, very important for ATypI. I was going to visit him last summer but he was ill. I will miss him - he was one of those great sample of the "old generation".
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Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Geneva, he created the (serifed) Nelly family as a student at KABK. He writes: I wanted a simple typotoolbox with only a few cuts and substantial differences between them. The initial family tree contained 4 cuts: Text, Italic, Bold & Display (later dropped due to time). Nelly, as a small type family, also explores the boundaries of unity. [...] I felt strongly attached to an elegant high contrast, even for a text typeface. I chose to draw according to my fantasies without following a design concept of style evolution from cut to cut. For example, I started the Text cut with a transitional contrast, concerned with legibility issues. Along the road, encouraged by my classmates, I decided to choose a "strict" pointed pen contrast because of the fun I had writing with it.
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Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Ligatura Regular (2004) and Ligatura Expert (2004).
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Influential Swiss graphic designer, painter and architect, b. 1908, Winterthur. Designer of Bill (1950, organic) and ArchiType Bill.
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Swiss type designer and calligrapher, born in Winterthur in 1916. He died in 2004. Designed Columna (Bauersche Giesserei, 1952-1955, originally a private face of the Benteli publishing house in Switzerland; revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli), a slightly-serifed face. His teachers included Jan Tschichold and Imre Reiner. Trained as a compositor (1932-1936), het set some jobs from 1936-1943. In 1941-1942, he taught typography at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basle, and was art director of the Benteli printing works in Bern from 1943-1962. From 1962-1981, he was head of the graphics department and typography teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich He consulted on type design for IBM in New York from 1962-1966, for the Bauersche Gießerei in Frankfurt am Main from 1965-1966, and for the Dr. Rudolf Hell company in Kiel from 1972-1989. He worked as type consultant at Adobe since from 1990. Adobe published Caflisch Script (designed by Robert Slimbach). Columna is available from Elsner&Flake as ColumnaEF as well as from Linotype, and will soon be republished by Neufville. Linotype bio. Max Caflisch, Albert Kapr, Antonia Weiss and Hans Peter Willberg published "F.H.Ernst Schneidler Schriftentwerfer, Lehrer, Kalligraph" (SchumacherGebler a.o., München, 2002). This publication was thoroughly mangled by SchumacherGebler, to the dismay of Caflisch. This story was written up in "Die Chronologie der Schneidler-Monographie 1985-2002: Die 16 Jahredauernde, mühselige Entstehungsgeschichte" (Max Caflisch, 2002, Theo Leuthold Press). Other publications include: "William Morris, der Erneuerer der Buchkunst", Bern 1959; "Kleines Spiel mit Ornamenten", Angelus-Druck, Bern, 1965; "Fakten zur Schriftgeschichte", Zürich1973; "Schrift und Papier", Grellingen 1973; "Typography braucht Schrift", Kiel 1978. A Berlincourt et al "Max Caflisch. Typographia practica", Hamburg 1988. MyFonts page. Rudolf Bosshard's article about Caflisch's life (Comedia, 2004, vol. 2).
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Swiss designer of Profil (Haas, 1946-1947, with his brother Eugen Lenz). Associated in the late 40s and 50s with Haas. Profil is a set of inclined rimmed capitals and numbers.
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Swiss designer, born and died in Zürich, 1910-1980. His typefaces, all produced for the Haas Foundry in Basel, Switzerland:
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A free original Christmas font, MaZiSOFT-Christmas (1998). Truetype and type 1. By MaZiSOFT Informatik AG (Solothurn, Switzerland).
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Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker
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German commercial school font outfit. Free demo fonts. The categories: Lateinische Ausgangsschrift, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift, Schulausgangsschrift, Druckschriften, Druckschriften Bayern, Pädagogische Zeichensätze, Zeichensätze für die Mathematik, Weihnachtsfonts, Sekundarfonts, Sekundarfonts. Of the many fonts, here are some made by Manfred Klein: KreuzWort, Norddruck, Sdfett, Vahalb, Veraus, Verfett. Ralf Lohuis (from Hünxe) made these fonts: Adam, Atlas, Bausteine, Blackwhite, Boxquestion, Domino, Eisenbahn, FlaggenABC, Geheim, Guitar, KreuzWort, Lapunkt, Lineatur, MatheRechner, MatheTangram, Meteo, Musik, Norddruck, Nordspur, Saspunkt, Sdfett, Sport, Telegraf, Trainee, Vahalb, VeenPikto, Veraus, Verfett, ZahlenABC. Subpage on school fonts. Christmas fonts made between 1999 and 2002, also by Lohuis: Fichten, Lichterglanz, Osterei, Schnee, Tannen, Verschneit, Weihnacht. Sub-page on Swiss school fonts where one finds CH Schrift 1 through 4, and Stein and Stein 1-Linie, Stein 2-Linie and Stein 4-Linie. At the Austrian school font sub-page, we find Druckschrift and Schulschrift 95.
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Archive of medieval truetype fonts by Peter Keel from Switzerland.
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Meik
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A free font by Michael Baumeler with the emblems of the 26 Swiss cantons: Kantonswappen CHFL (1997).
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Michael Parson (b. Geneva, Switzerland, 1979) published these fonts in 2003 as part of Linotype's Taketype 5 collection: Anlinear LT Std Bold, Anlinear LT Std Light, Anlinear LT Std Regular, Arabdream LT Std, ClassicusTitulus LT Std, Hexatype LT Std Bold, Morocco LT Std, Jan LT Std, Ned LT Std, Pargrid LT Std Cross, Pargrid LT Std Regular, Pargrid LT Std Trash, Piercing LT Std Bold, Piercing LT Std Code, Piercing LT Std Regular, Raclette LT Std. In 2004, he made Clans (T-26, blackletter) and Boulas (T-26). In 2006, he released these at T-26: Boutan (indic simulation face), Heraldry (dingbats), Palm Icons, Wingbat (airplanes). In 2007, still at T-26: Heraldry, Thunderbolt 73 through 76 (from techno stencil to techno sans). In 2008, at T26: Ealing (geometric sans family, with a hairline), Bauhau (6 weights), Quean, Halja (blackletter), Big Boy (11 styles, a slab family from grunge to regular).
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Graphic design, posters, flyers, logos and type by Michel Casarramona from Zürich.
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Designer at Die Gestalten of Brother (stencil), T-Star Mono Round (monospace). In 2002, he coedited Los Logos, a 444 page book of logos (with Robert Klanten and Nicholas Bourquin). In 2007, the typewriter face Generell TW was added. At Binnenland, he has Relevant (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2007; loosely influenced by 'Record Gothic', created by R. Hunter Middleton for the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1927), T-Star Pro, T-Star TW Pro (typewriter face, 2002), and Catalog (Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen, 2005).
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Monaco Grafico
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Zürich-based design studio run by Paolo Monaco which created the free cigarette-box inspired font Case (2005).
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Monom
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Swiss outfit involved in type design. Run by graphic students at the HGKL, Amadeus Waltenspühl and Dario Hofstetter. They made 100 free truetype/opentype fonts: 001_monograf, 002_drei, 003_itchi, 004_tschiipoint, 005_dock, 006_molekular, 007_dart, 008_retne, 009_deuxtrois, 010_spacetab, 011_profil, 012_fumer, 013_sarger, 014_palcode, 015_chemic, 016_password, 017_river, 018_quader, 019_drugs, 020_cageone, 021_kravall, 022_tabs, 023_secret, 024_mops, 025_gitter, 026_a.dur, 027_fugu, 028_setball, 029_mars, 030_meteor, 031_code, 032_norm, 033_moses, 034_nonono, 035_raserblade, 036_rufio, 037_sugus, 038_xenix, 039_trace, 040_pepper, 041_collaps, 042_groove, 043_trickshot, 044_machine, 045_balk, 045_wood, 046_holeinone, 047_RZ, 048_blocktab, 049_raffel, 050_plaid, 051_bensen, 052_sargo, 053_window, 054_shavetab, 055_ruine, 056_dotsperinch, 057_amenon, 058_ment, 059_darttwo, 060_pointless, 061_skyline, 062_fett, 063_core, 064_enter, 065_arche, 066_screendesign, 067_chemicout, 068_b.dur, 069_korn, 070_salzstreuer, 071_archrune, 072_minim, 073_elloco, 074_opera, 075_fatcap, 076_flash, 077_manson, 078_upper, 079_render, 080_etage, 081_invader, 082_sagur, 083_korsett, 084_nagasaki, 085_mugge, 086_read, 087_macro, 088_amenam, 089_roomate, 090_worms, 091_wirbel, 092_please, 093_keyboard, 094_actop, 095_pina, 096_m.1280, 097_c.dur, 098_bens, 099_insider, 100_cagetwo. These are mostly pixel fonts, or basic shapes for ornaments. None of them are complete, but that is not the point---they are experimental.
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Natalie Birkle |
Designer of BD Fimo (2007, Burodestruct) in regular and outline versions. Free fonts.
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Nicolas Eigenheer grew up on the shores of Lac Neuchatel. He graduated from the University of Art & Design Lausanne (ECAL) in Visual Communications. He works as a graphic and type designer in Switzerland. He created the slab titling face Material (2006, Optimo).
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Niels Wehrspann works at //copy// in Lausanne. He designed Ingenieur (1998), a geometric face, and Rubdown (1999, 6 weights), digitized from a transfer sheet. The latter font was revamped as Grafostyle Basic (2007, Optimo), a VAG Rounded relative. Laurence Jaccottet and Wehrspann are the designers of the inline AGIP font (2001) based on the logo of AgipPetroli, digitized for the book "Benzin: Junge Schweitzer Graphik". Niels Wehrspann is the co-founder of Schönwehrs (Schönherwehrs) design studio in Geneva. He studied graphic design at the University of Art & Design Lausanne (Ecal).
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Nonpareille (or: Chastellun.net)
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Norm
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Norm is a graphic design studio in Zürich, run by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs. They designed Replica (2008, a strictly gridded sans family), Simple (2000, a monospaced font family), Normetica (1999, a monospace font family), Purple (2006, a didone family) and Prima (1999) at lineto. They also made the monospace font Tetra B (1999).
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Bern-based screen font producers and media lab. Free pixel fonts, all made in 2001: fiftyfox, importer, screenfox9, spotdot, zedfoxin, zedfoxout.
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OCR-B: Adobe
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Adobe's version of OCR-B, which was originally designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1966 for the European Computer Manufacturer's Association. It is rounded and easier to read than the rounded octagonal OCR-A font, which was designed for machine readability. OCR-B is ugly, malformed and quite useless nowadays. Quoting Linotype: Additional acclaim came after Frutiger was approached to come up with a more pleasing design for the optical character recognition typefaces used for computers. The result was OCR-B, which became the worldwide standard in 1973. Quoting Spiekernmann: The work was commissioned by the European Computer Manufacturers Association ECMA in Geneva. They didn't want to adapt OCR A, which was already used in the USA. Frutiger's job was to make a machine-readable type that was acceptable to the human eye as well. He started in 1963 and designed it on a finer grid than OCR A with its 5x9 squares. Apart from the font for machines he also designed a version for letterpress printing that had lower case characters and subtle stroke variations. The original OCR B was monospaced and had round stroke endings. The second version was proportional and had straight stroke endings.
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Swiss site with these free techno fonts, all made in 2003: Break, Buster, Eva, Fatt, Liner, Quer, Quadrron, Racer, Round, Subby, Tektrron-Regular, Tv, Zone-Regular. Direct download.
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Optimo
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Optimo is a Lausanne-based foundry established in 1997 by Stéphane Delgado, Gilles Gavillet and David Rust: Aerial, Chip, Flexo MM (1998, David Rust), Circuit (2002, David Rust; on the CD in Nathan Gale's type 1 book), Didot Elder (2004, a true revival of a family by Pierre Didot, 1819; it has devil-tailed S's and is similar in many places to Porchez's Ambroise. It was designed by François Rappo), Kornkuh, Nova MM, Steiner, Autologic, Detroit MM (1997), Kabin, Normal, 2000, Optimal (a kitchen tile font), Politics (squarish face by Gilles Gavillet), Montana (stencil by Gilles Gavillet), CEO (typewriter style by Rappo), Veglia, Zero. Most fonts are futuristic or experimental, with a few sans serif fonts thrown in at well. Interesting web page, which in 2003 stopped being accessible to many browsers (UNIX people can never get in, for example). In 2003, David Rust and Gilles Gavillet co-designed Cargo (stencil), Hermes (typewriter type), Index and Politics. In 2006, Philipp Herrmann created the slab serif face Piek.
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Orell, Gessner, Fuessli & co |
Typefounders in Zürichsince the mid 18th century. One of its founders was the artist Johann Caspar Füssli, 1706-1782. Their work can be found in Épreuves des caracteres de la fonderie de Orell, Gessner, Fueslin & compagnie. A Zuric (Zurich, 1781). This book already shows some didone influences, but its main typefaces are all Fraktur, with sizes in Sabon, Grosze Missal, Kleine Misaal, Grosze Canon, Kleine Canon, Mignone, Garmond and Petit. It offered a Garmond Schwabacher too. The still exists today, and specializes in cartography as Orell FüssliKartographie AG.
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Ormaxx Fonts
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Free PCF and BDF format bitmap fonts (2000-2002) by Swiss Roland Buehlmann, designed for UNIX/LINUX systems.
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Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)
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Page Studio Graphics is Roger Vershen's Oro Valley, AZ-based company specializing in symbols and symbol fonts, founded by him in 1986. The fonts (grouped under the name PIXymbols) include ADA symbols v.2.0, Africa, Alphabox, Alphacircle, Ameslan (ASL), Antorff (fraktur), Antorff Fractions, Apothecary, Arrows, Astrology, Backstitich, Boxkey, BoxNLines, Braille grade 2, Casual, Chalk Casual, PIXymbols Chess, Command Key, Courex, Crossword, Digit&Clocks, Dingbats&Online, DOSScreen, Fabric Care, FARmarks (Federal Aviation Regulations lettering), Flagman (semaphore), Fractions, Gridmaker, Highway Gothic (U.S. Department of Transportation's Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs), PIXymbols Highway Gothic 2002, Highway Signs (U.S. Department of Transportation), Hospital&Safety, LCD, Luna, Malkoff (calligraphic font), Marina, Meeting, Menufonts, Morse, Musica (instruments), Newsdots, Orchestra, Passkey, Patchwork, PCx, Phone, PIXymbolsMusica, PrimerD (letters with lines), Recycle, Roadsigns, Shadowkey, Signet (family), Squared, Strings, Stylekey, Tolerances&Datum, Travel&Hotel, TV List, Unikey, US Map, Xcharting, Xstitch. They also sell EPS files of all Arms of Swiss cantons, and many nice initial caps. Look also for Faux Hebrew (simulated Hebrew), as part of the Faux package that also includes Faux Sanskrit, Faux Runic, Faux Hebrew, Faux Japanese, Faux Arabic, Faux Chinese and Faux Chinese Sans. Alternate URL. Previews at MyFonts.
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Born in Basel in 1940, Peter Bartl taught typography, graphic design, photography and computer graphics at the University of Alberta. He retired in British Columbia, where he and Jane Merks run PB+J Press.
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Peter Keller |
Swiss type designer and teacher (b. Basel, 1944). Since 1989, he heads the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in Nancy. Before that, he ran type courses at ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris (1969), had his own studio in Paris (1970), taught courses at ESAG (École supérieure d'Arts Graphiques) in Paris (1972), and worked as a type consultant for Roger Tallon in Paris (1974).
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Swiss designer of Onciale PhF01 (2004).
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Philipp Hermann |
Type designer, b. Münich, Germany. He went to Zürich to study graphic design at University for Applied Arts (HGKZ). Designer at Optimo of the playing cards slab serif font Piek (2006).
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Swiss typographer and author, b. 1966, schaffhausen. Coeditor with Heidrun Osterer of Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces The Complete Works (2009, Birkhäuser). creator in 1995 of PhonogrammeF (Feinherb, Visuelle Gestaltung).
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Zürichbased French designer at Optimo of Editor (2005), modeled after the Swiss typewriter brand Hermes. Creator at Lineto of the stencil face Le Corbusier. With Marco Walser of Elektrosmog, he worked on the six weights of LL Brauer Neue (1999-2006), after and original typeface called Brauer by Pierre Miedinger, nephew of Max Miedinger, who created it in 1974 for the Züriuch-based brewery called Brauerei.
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Nephew of Max Miedinger, the creator of Helvetica. He co-designed Brauer at Elektrosmog, a design studio in Zürich, run by Valentin Hindermann and Marco Walser. Brauer was published by lineto. This was later developed into the six weights of LL Brauer Neue by Marco Walser and Philippe Desarzens.
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Jawut (2002, with Franz Hoffman, Juerg Lehni, and Jérôme Rigaud: a face inspired by André Baldinger's Newut), WellKrau (with Jérôme Rigaud: an irregularly tiled font).
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Pixelfarm
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Swiss outfit run by a group of five out of Bern. Type design is done by Simon Küffer. I can't find any fonts on their home page, but you can always try here: Pixelfarm Pets (2005, free).
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Quersicht
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Developers of the free slab serif typewriter style font Nadia Serif (1999-2002, Nadia Knechtle). Nadia graduated in graphic design in Zürich, Switzerland. She was an apprentice in magazine and type design with Bruno Maag. She is presently located in Bäch, Switzerland. Alternate URL.
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Radis Noir
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Gaël Goy is a student at the Ecole Romande d'Art et de Communication in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the creator of the free art deco face Radis Sans (2008). Alternate URL.
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Codesigner with Urs and Juerg Lehni (from Switzerland) of Lego (1999) at lineto.
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Swiss type designer at lineto.
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Rechenzentrum Universität Zürich
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PostScript information and sample programs at RZU. Site by Peter Vollenweider with a ton of information. There is a crash course on Bezier curves, a type 1 version of Frutiger 47, and a random type 3 font, with line by line explanations. In German.
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Fictitious Swiss designer and type designer whose fonts, Chalet New York, Chalet Tokyo, Chalet Paris, Chalet London, and Chalet Comprimé (2002) are offered at House Industries. The Chalet persona was invented by the good people at House Industries as a marketing ploy (chalet means house in French).
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Swiss typographer who spoke at the Typocircle in London about Cuban typography on January 23, 2003. Author of Satztechnik und Typografie (GDP Verlag, coauthored with Christine Graber, Renata Minoretti, Martin Sommer), and Plakatkunst der kubanischen Revolution (RiFri-Edition).
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Richard Paul Lohse |
Swiss graphic arts icon, b. Zürich (1902), d. 1988.
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Swiss communication designer based in Zürich. In 2009, he created the simple sans face Kiosk. Behance link.
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Robert Büchler |
Swiss typographer who taught in Basel.
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Password Hamburgefonstiv. Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Switzerland, he created the connected signwriter script face Caballero as a student at KABK. He also did a revival of Pierpont's Horley Old Style. Alternate URL.
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Rollergirl
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Swiss outfit now located in Amsterdam, est. 2003 by Jacques Borel and Harry Bloch, two Swiss graphic designers who graduated from ECAL, the University of Art and Design, Lausanne. At Fontnest, one can ogle their font creations: Pink (semi-stencil), Planp (Swiss sans), Franks (rounded sans headline), and Rudolf (rounded sans with fill-in bowls).
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Rudolf Hostettler |
Swiss type designer. Author of "The Printer's Terms", designed by Jan Tschichold. And of Technical Terms of the Printing Industry (5th edition was printed in 1995) and Type: eine Auswahl guter Drucktypen ; 80 Alphabete klassischer und moderner Schriften (Teufen, Ausser-Rhoden: Niggli, 1958). He also wrote "Type: A Selection of Types" (1949, fgm books, R. Hostettler, E. Kopley, H. Strehler Publ., St. Gallen and London) in which he highlights type made by European houses such as Haas, Enschedé, Deberny and Nebiolo. Jost Hochuli wrote his biography, Epitaph für Rudolf Hostettler (St. Gallen: Typotron, 1993). Selected shots from his 1949 text.
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Comparison between truetype and postscript at Zentrum Informatikdienste of the University of Zürich. Essay on Bezier curves as well.
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Swiss designer from Aarau (b. 1986) who used Fontifier to make Sasu's Handwriting (2009), and Scanahand to make FatoftheLand (2009), Initialized (2009, children's hand), Outlines (2009), and Blurry Handwritting (sic) (2009). Outlines (2009) was made with Scanahand. Home page. Dafont link. Alternate URL. Aka Sasu.
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Swiss image and type magazine published with the help of B&P Foundry in Lausanne.
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Schaffner & Conzelmann AG (or: Designersfactory)
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Basel-based design company, est. 1976, led by Jean-Jacques Schaffner (b. 1954) and Silvana Conzelmann (b. 1955). Silvana Conzelmann studied in Basel with people such as Armin Hofmann, Donald Brun and Hermann Eidenbenz. She has been an illustrator, design studio manager, and type designer. Alternate page. Check out Alphanumerix.
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Schnur |
Schnur is the Swiss Schulschrift.
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About 25 TrueType fonts, mostly of the science fiction/Startrek mold. Swiss Startrek site.
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A 122-page artcle (PDF file) by Valentin Blank about font protection in Switzerland. Written in 1999 in German, its full title is "Schutz typografischer Schriftzeichen und Schriften im schweizerischen Immaterialguter- und Lauterkeitsrecht".
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Luzern, Switzerland-based designer (b. 1973). Creator of Mager (2008), a sans face.
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Swiss graphic designer with Bosch&Butz in Zollikon, and art director and principal at Planet in Luzern. He created SeebadLTStd (2003), a family that is part of Linotype's Taketype 5 collection. FontShop link.
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Smart Chess
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Harry Oesch designed a free TrueType chess font that comes with SmartChess. Old link.
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Sokratype
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Lots of original (truetype) fonts by Timm Suess: AScratchedRemix, BarnettDevice, Catwalk, CoercionNaked, CoercionRegular, ContactNeedsDB, Creaminal.TTF DecibelDingbats, DerangedTabloid.TTF ElGoat, Flyman (1997), Glooper, Harvey, HighTide, IGing, KoCity, MataHari (erased Arnold Boecklin), Nakedmonk, Narcotix, PointBrackett, QuoVadis, QuoVadisUltrabold, Screeplot, SevenPoints, SevenPointsFAT, Shattered, SickPostman, Strontium90, Strontium99, ThoughtPolice, ThoughtPoliceunarmed, TouristEater, Ygnorant. Fonts are free for personal non-commercial use, but cost 10 dollars otherwise. Designer is a Swiss psychology student. Site seems to have closed down, but thanks to CybaPee, the fonts are still available via typOasis. Old Sokrates page.
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For 95 Swiss francs, they will make you a handwriting font. Free sample fonts: Mario02 (1999), Rolando02 (1999), Rolando (1999).
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Designer at the Lausanne-based foundry Optimo. Designer or co-designer of DetroitMM (1997), Kabin, Kornkuh.
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Graphic designer and illustrator in Lausanne. He created the experimental face Sulu (2009) while taking a course with Clotilde Olyff.
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Swiss graphic designer who works in Berlin. His fonts can be obtained at lineto and FontFont. These include: Aveugle (Braille font, 1995), Berlin-Schnefeld and Berlin-TegelSmallSizes (1995), Parking, FF Gateway and Grid (1996), FF Chernobyl (1998, from stenciled letters on the Chernobyl plant), Paragon, Batarde Coulee, Shuttle, FE Mittelschrift and FE Engschrift (1997, modeled after the impossible-to-counterfeit German license plate font), 104 (nice geometric font), FF Container, Bitmap-Condensed and Bitmap-Regular (1998), Office (Eurostile-like monospace, 1999), Regular (2004, Lineto, a typewriter family). FF Screen Matrix (1995) was done with Cornel Windlin. In 2003, he created the Numberplate series covering Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland.
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Graphic designer in Bern. He created a squarish alphabet called Abdul (2010).
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This Swiss outfit sells Opal barcode fonts. Very very expensive. They cover Code 39, Code 128, UCC-128, Code 93, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN/JAN-8, EAN/JAN-13, Codabar, MSI Plessey and PostNet.
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Subtitude
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Susanna Stammbach |
Susanna Stammbach (b. 1957) runs her own information systems & signage design studio in Basel and teaches at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Luzern, Switzerland.
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Schweizerische Kalligrafische Gesellschaft.
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The Peripheral Systems Laboratory develops new software and hardware technology for advanced displays, printing devices, phototypesetters and information servers. They have several pages relating to smooth font technology.
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Swiss Legacy
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Swiss Legacy is about Swiss design and Swiss type. The page is run by Xavier Encinas, a French Art Director who lives in Paris. He is also known as Rumbero Design. In 2000, he started business school studies at l'Institut Supérieur du Commerce. Since 2004, he works as a freelance Art Director specializing in print, logotype and web design.
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Comprehensive pages on 20th century Swiss type design, compiled in 2008 by the Departement of Visual Communication, University of Art and Design Zurich.
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SwissMad S.A.
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Swiss designer of the free fonts Swiss Made (2006, techno sans) and Swiss Mad (2006, Swiss made stencilized). Home page.
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swissmiss
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Type blog by "Swiss Miss" Tina Roth Eisenberg, who now lives in NYC.
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Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: mtrxs (with Jérôme Rigaud: a dot matrix font), Troyd, Encoda MM (sans serif), Encoda Anfang (sans serif), Absinthia, Punebot, Alchemia, Basicrounded, Bacted_Flagada_Trigger (a dirty look font), Helveliga (with Jerome Rigaud and Fabian Monod).
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Sylvestre Lucia (b. 1985, Dornarch, Switzerland) studies graphic design at the "Le Corbusiers Art School" in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. At AND in 2006, he created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S together with Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Mike Kohnke and Joachim Müller-Lancé.
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Synergie Ltd
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Jean-Marc Wettach (Synergie Ltd) is the Genève-based designer (b. 1969) of Tsarine Anastasia Script (2002), Moskovia Script (2003, a revival of Phil Martin's Viant), BostonLibraryBook, CanyonElDiablo, EgretteLight, EgretteLightFlourish, FeatherThin, FortLaramie, LunarMoon, LyndaCursiveBold, LyndaScriptBold, LyndaScriptRegular, MarisaBook, MarisaBookBold, MarisaBookItalic, NabokovBook, SaintPetersburg, Kalinka Brush, Morocco Express, SanaaScript, SaphireLightScript, SepteraCoreScript and Anatol Hotel (2003). EgretteLight was removed at the request of Rian Hughes (Device)---too close for comfort?
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TambEdit
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Music software by Daniel Lüthi (Tafers, Switzerland). The demo software, when unzipped, contains TambEdit, a music font for drums by Daniel Lüthi.
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Pixel fonts (not downloadable) here include T-Gigafon, T-Megafon, T-Babyfon, T-Mikrofon, Telepong Regular, Telepong Bold, On-Off Condensed. "Telepong Inc. is a telecom start-up based in Pfaeffikon/Zürich, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. It's main shareholders are UCP AG and the Lomographic Society, the camera maker."
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Swiss designer (b. 1965, Basel) who with the help of URW created the font family Theo Ballmer (2000), based on his grandfather Theo's ideas from the Bauhaus era.
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Zürichbased graphic designer (b. 1985). He designed the geometric sans face Loop (2005), the octagonal sans face Panzer Bold (2006) and Casual (2005, no downloads).
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Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Minaco (a screen font family), Tilt (a dot matrix font).
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Fonts made by Swiss designer Thomas Hausheer from Hinwil: Teto (free pixel font), Shalom.
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Swiss designer of Punktschrift (with Thomas Neeser) at Kombinat Typefounders. Started the Neeser+Müller Grafik design studio in Basel in 1997.
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Swiss designer of Punktschrift (with Thomas Müller) at Kombinat Typefounders. Started the Neeser+Müller Grafik design studio in Basel in 1997.
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Swiss developer of a four-glyph font with boxes, called Ahem (1999). Apparently, it is used for browser testing. The font was updated by Paul Nelson in the mid 2000s. Most characters are the em square, except É and p, which show ascent/descent from the baseline. Useful for testing composition systems. IW (2009) is a similar test font.
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Type Culture
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Typoblog.ch
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Swiss type blog run by Roland Liechti. Type subpage. Free font subpage.
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Swiss foundry which offers several free techno fonts made from 1999-2004: Break, Buster, Eva, Fatt, Liner, Quadrron, Quer, Querround, Round, Subby, Tektrron-Regular, Tv, Cake, Fluster, Onky, Racer, Titan, Zone. Alternate (old) URL. Another URL.
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TM is a Swiss magazine involved in typography. Frequent contributors include Helmut Schmid. It is run by Comedia in Bern. The editor is Jean Pierre Graber from Zürich.
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Swiss vendor of Berthold, Bitstream, Galla, Ingram and Jack Yan fonts. Includes a logo/signature service, and font conversion consulting. Swiss type pages by Peter H. Singer, the Berthold man in Zürich. Commercial links, mainly to Berthold. They provide some corporate identity font services as well as font conversions with Fontmonger (??). They also sell a 300 handwriting font collection. Alternate URL. List of type designers.
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German explanations on fonts in X11. At the RZU (University of Zürich).
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Urs and Juerg Lehni (from Zürich, Switzerland) and Rafael Koch (from Luzern) designed Lego (1999) at lineto. They now go under the name "Blokes". Bitstream write-up.
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Swiss graduate student in type design at the University of Reading, 2007. He created Tiina (2007) there, a Latin/Cyrillic type family, which won an award at TDC2 2008.
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Verein Schweizer Straßenfachmänner Foundry |
Swiss foundry which made SNV Extra Condensed (1972), a font later distributed commercially by URW. This is a license plate font used by various U.S. states and Canadian provinces. Not only is this font family quite ugly, it is also quite unreadable. A Ralf Herrmann explains that i can still be found on older Swiss traffic signs and also in Belgium where it is still the main font on road signs. Since 2003, the swiss use a new font called ASTRA Frutiger, which is based on Frutiger 57 Condensed with slight changes.
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Codesigner of Cointrin (1998) with Kimou Meyer at Grotesk, a design bureau in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Truetype font service in Switzerland.
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Swiss type designer, b. 1933, Zug. He created Schmalfette Grotesk (1954). Unpublished typefaces: Africaine, Breifette Etienne, Busride (1969), Coal (1975). Eleanora (1970), Haetti-Antiqua (1972), Haettenschweiler Face (1970), Halbstarke Pica, Oberoy (1971), Schmale Mediäval, Timeless (1971). Further typefaces accredited to him: Breitfette Unziale, Roaring Twenties, Unziale, Happening, Chelsea Type, Flat Letter, Knock Out, Strada, Yardley, Sezession, Carnaby, Op-Letter, Allshadow, Subway, End, Wornout, The Ugly American, Expo, Ellington, Boris Vian, Blues, Ella for ever, Wir Wunderkinder, Calder, Tropic, Polyp, Maotse, Aleman con Adorno, Alphabet Art Nouveau, Alphabet Capitales de Fantasie, Alphabet Majeur d'Anglaise Rubannee, Alphabets Capiale & Romain Penches en.... , Arnold Boecklin, Eckmann-Schrift, Edelgotisch-Initialen, Fantail, Favorit, Fraktur-Bastard, Jugendstil-Unziale, Kalligraphia, Lettres Ombrees, Lichte Italienne-Kursiv, schraffiert+abschattiert, Lima, Metropolitaines, Mira, Ornamentale Antiqua, Romantique, Siegfried, Smoke, Soutache, Thalia, Verzierte Unziale, Wotan, Walhalla, Teutonia, Lichte,Abschattierte,Umrandete,Schraffierte Etienne, Alphabet de L'Amour, Historismus, Plastische Verzierte Italienne Toscanienne, Audrey Hepburn, Cocteau, Leslie, Disney, Caron, Klee, Picasso, Mondrian, Bauhaus, Marino Marini, Congo, Schenk ein Buch, Beggarstaff, Black'n White, Broad, Fü¼r das Alter, Gaité, Girlish Face, Green Leaves, Halbstarke Pica, Lawless Type, Lettre coupée, Maidenform, New Fashion, Nouvelle Vague, Schmale Mediaeval, Sacral Letter, That bad Eartha, Vanishing Letter.
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Born in Zürich, 1913. Died in Zürich, 1986. Designer of Diethelm Antiqua (Haas, 1948-1950; Linotype, 1957), Sculptura (1957, digitized by Jason Castle in 2005), Arrow (1967, VGC), Abacus, Aktiv, Capitol, Gloriette.
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Teacher of Adrian Frutiger, b. 1901. Pic. Here, you can find wonderful advice for making well-adjusted alphabets. In this wikipedia, we read: At the age of 16, Frutiger was apprenticed as compositor to a printer in the nearby town of Interlaken for four years and attended classes at the Zürich School of Arts and Crafts. (Rauri) Under the tutelage of Walter Käch from 1949 to 1951, students learned type design by rubbing forms from Roman inscriptions. The students then applied the knowledge learned from these ancient letterforms to their own type creations. The students came to realize that the way the inscriptions were made was an outline applied with a pen, and then chiseled into the rock. When students were first learning to design typefaces, they used pens to create flowing letterforms. Then students moved on to work with pencil. No instruments, such as rulers were used- everything was done by eye, and corrections had to be made by scraping the markings off with a knife. Frutiger respected Käch, and felt he was a fine teacher who allowed many different views to be prevalent. However, the young student disagreed with his teacher on how technical and defined forms should be. Käch was a calligrapher, and thought because punch cutters used a grid their forms were too harsh and technical. His typefaces are all dated 1949 and were published by ZHdK Zurich:
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From Switzerland, about 20 new designs for Mac and PC, at about 25 USD a piece. Faces: StinkyRat, San Francisco, San Jose, Sharky, Strike, Spacelab, BaseAlpha, RondaXero. All fonts by Johann Terrettazz. Page has become a Flash site. Now also Uppercut, Superclub, Gas Station, Dancefloor.
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Free geographical symbol fonts by WaterGisWeb AG in Bern, Switzerland: WEA_GSK, WEA_Geologie, WEA_Wasserkraft.
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Wilhelm Haas the younger (1766-1838) led the Haas typefoundry in Basel around 1800. Son of Wilhelm Haas the elder (1741-1800), who led the Haas typefoundry before him. Before that, his grandfather Johann Wilhelm Haas took over a foundry in 1737 from Johann Rudolf Genath II.
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Willi Kunz |
Author of Typography: Formation and Transformation (2003) and Typography: Macro- + Microaesthetics. Kenneth Frampton published an article entitled Willy Kunz Typography: Formation and Transformation in Comedia, edition 04-4, 2004. Amazon link.
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Swiss typography teacher (b. 1941) at the Basel School of Design/Switzerland since 1968. Interview. Brief CV. Author of Wolfgang Weingart: Typography (2000), a text called arrogant by Stuart Bailey. I bought the book, and must say that the ratio of message to volume is rather small. Adam Rotmil comments on his exceptional teaching capabilitis just before Weingart's retirement from HGK Basel in 2004. A famous Weingart quote, cited in Revival of the Fittest, Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces (Philip B. Meggs & Roy McKelvey): Four typefaces are enough to address every typographic problem. Every digitalization of an old typeface is, for me, a fake. Another quotation: Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
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xyz.ch
| Zürichbased designer (b. 1977) who started publishing his typefaces at Die Gestalten. In 2008, he set up xyz.ch where he sells his own creations. Designer of these faces:
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Zurich-based illustrator and art director who made the octagonal face Qbik in 2010. Home page.
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This Zuricher Kanzleischrift dates back to 1553.
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German illustrator and graphic designer who works at Keller Maurer Design in Munich. Born in Ravensburg in 1982, as a student in 2007, she created 
Designer located in Zürich, who works at Atelier Bubentraum there. For 
BP stands for Buechi et Party. Ian Party is a Lausanne-based type designer (b. Lausanne, 1977) who studied first at ECAL in Lausanne and then at the KABK in The Hague. In 2004, he cofounded B&P Type Foundry with Maxime Buechi. Since 2005, he teaches type design at ECAL in Lausanne. 
DKGD stands for Dani Klauser Grafik Design. He is a Swiss designer from Luzern who made the free geometric sans face Circle (2007). He also made the headline faces 
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. His typefaces include Agile (2007, a sans family done at KABK), 
Swiss type designer. As 
Swiss decorative artist, poster designer of the art nouveau era, and type designer (b. Lausanne, 1841, d. Sceaux, 1917) who made Étrusque (Fonderie Gustave Peignot & fils, 1900), 
German/Swiss foundry established in 1790 (however, see timeline below) and based in Basel/Münchenstein. Many of its shares were acquired by D. Stempel in 1927. Linotype takes over Haas in 1989. Their collection includes: 
(German or Swiss) creator (aka Fuex) of the free calligraphic font Miama (2009, 
Swiss designer in Zurich who made Souper3 (2009) and Soupleaf (2009, a fun decorative handprinted face for gourmet illustrations). 
Graphic, multimedia and type designer. Nina Stoessinger from Switzerland designed her first font in 2001, and obtained a degree in multimedia design in Halle, Germany, in 2008. She created a family of bitmap faces called 
Sébastien Théraulaz from Lausanne lives in Montreal since 1997. There, he started his type foundry Subtitude (as part of Sub Communications Inc). The first fonts: Subix (2005, bitmap font), Subedge (2005), Subamera (2005, free), Subaccuz-Bold, Subaccuz-Light, Subaccuz-Regular (2003, all free), Subinter (2003, with Valérie Desrochers), SubinterLightCondensed (2003), Subelair (2005), Subeve (erotic outlines, free), Subroyal (2005, octagonal), Subalde (2005, Valérie Desrochers), 
Tobias Summer ("Shasta") is the Swiss designer (b. 1986) at FontStruct in 2008 of Great Depression (influenced by headline fonts from 1929), Brutto (headline slab serif), Lame Dude (dripping paint), Toytype (an interesting Indic simulation face based on an earlier block font by him called Block On), 
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