Folio
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- Designer(s)
- Walter Baum, Konrad Friedrich Bauer
- Foundry(ies)
- Bauer , Elsner+Flake , Bitstream
- Release Year
- 1962
- Country of Origin
- Switzerland
- Classification
- Sans Serif, Grotesk
- Original Format
- Metal (Foundry)
- Tags
- grotesk, helvetica, sans serif, swiss
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Designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum in 1956, Folio was the first popular Swiss Sanserif; the positive black shapes of the letters appear to be locked inevitably into the correct position by the firm and positive white shapes that surround them.