Tag: swiss

1. Helvetica

   Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann ; Foundry: Haas, Linotype

   Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas type foundry) of Münchenstein,…

2. Haas Unica

   Designer: Christian Mengelt, André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind ; Foundry: Haas, Linotype

   Typedesign by Team’77 (André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind), 1977, under contract to Haas Typefoundry, as new sansserif typeface for…

3. Gravur Condensed

   Designer: Cornel Windlin ; Foundry: Lineto

4. Qurillian

   Designer: Jeremy Dooley ; Foundry: Insigne

   

   A simple but unique sans serif. Qurillian also includes a number of OpenType features including ligatures and old style…

5. Avaloc

   Designer: Jeremy Dooley ; Foundry: Insigne

   

   Avaloc, named for the mythical king of Avalon, is an expanded sans serif face. Avaloc has a clean and geometric…

6. Carrosserie

   Designer: Fabian Widmer ; Foundry: Letterwerk

   Inspired by shapes of the 30s from a facade lettering in Zürich. It is a capital letter font with alternate…

7. Swiss 721

   Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann ; Foundry: Bitstream

   Swiss 721 is a font from Bitstream library. Edouard Hoffmann saw this typeface as an improvement on the late nineteenth…

8. Folio

   Designer: Walter Baum, Konrad Friedrich Bauer ; Foundry: Bauer, Elsner+Flake, Bitstream

   Designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum in 1956, Folio was one of the first popular Swiss Sanserif; the positive…

9. Signa

   Designer: André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind ; Foundry: Autologic, Bobst Graphic

   Typedesign by Team‘77, 1978, as new sans-serif typeface for Bobst Graphic photo-typsetting, followed by the use for digital-typesetting systems of…

10. GT Walsheim

    Designer: Noël Leu ; Foundry: Grilli Type

    

    Otto Baumberger’s typography on early 20th century Swiss posters defined GT Walsheim, a geometric grotesk by Noël Leu. The eight…