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- Jan 31, 2020
- 4 min
Swiss Style: The Principles, the Typefaces & the Designers
By: Callie Budrick | January 31, 2020 ___________________________________________________________________ Print has been acquired by an independent group of collaborators—Deb Aldrich, Laura Des Enfants, Jessica Deseo, Andrew Gibbs, Steven Heller and Debbie Millman—and soon enough, we’ll be back in full force with an all-new look, all-new content and a fresh outlook for the future! In the meantime, we’re looking back at some of our favorite pieces. Enjoy. If you’re a designer
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- May 28, 2019
- 9 min
The Univers of Helvetica: A Tale of Two Typefaces
Helvetica is, by all accounts, a typographic celebrity. But how did it get there…and why didn’t Univers get the spotlight instead? Speculative historical thinking, or counterfactual history, whether by historians or novelists, tries to imagine what might have happened if the outcome of a key moment in the past had been different. It has usually been applied to momentous events such as the expulsion of the Moors from Spain, the American Civil War, the two World Wars or the ass
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- Dec 2, 2016
- 1 min
15 of PRINT’s Most Popular Typography Articles of All Time
As we gear up for today’s Typography & Lettering Awards deadline (enter now!), we’re celebrating by pulling together a list of our most popular type and lettering articles from the past year, and all time. Enjoy! Swiss Style: The Principles, the Typefaces & the Designers A Brief History of Typography 1928 – 1980 12 Overlooked & Underappreciated Typefaces The Explosive Hand Lettering Rebellion Vintage Fonts: 35 Adverts From the Past Principles of Areal & Linear Perspective in
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- Nov 2, 2015
- 1 min
Subtleties of the Univers
This year, the legendary Adrian Frutiger (born 1928) died. Deep in the Print archives, we uncovered this feature about the man of a million typefaces, and the development of Univers. Learn the subtleties of the face from this 1961 article, appropriately titled “Univers: A New Concept in European Type Design” by Emil O. Biemann. (Click each page for a high-res image.) #adrianfrutiger #typography #typographyandletteringawards #Univers
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