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Hans Eduard Meier

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Hans Eduard Meier (30 December 1922, Horgen, Switzerland — 15 July 2014, Horgen [1]),[2][3] was a Swiss type designer. He created the neohumanist typeface Syntax at Stempel Foundry, along with Barbedor (1984), Letter (1992) and Lapidar (1995).

Awards

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Linotype Syntax won the Type Directors Club Type Design Competition award in the year 2000 under the text or display type systems category.[4]

Bitstream Humanist 531 Cyrillic won awards at the type design contests bukva:raz!,[5][6] and Kyrillitsa'99, under the text category.[7]

Typefaces designed by Hans Eduard Meier

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  • Syntax - conceived between 1955 and 1964, metal cast by Stempel AG between 1968 and 1972, digitalized by Adobe in 1984, also released as Bitstream Humanist 531.
  • Barbedor - 1984.
  • ITC Syndor - 1986, International Typeface Corporation.
  • Letter (Syntax Letter) - 1992, Linotype.
  • Oberon - 1992.
  • SNB-Alphabet -1994, for the Swiss Bank.
  • Lapidar (Syntax Lapidar) - 1995, Linotype.
  • LTSyntax - 1997, Linotype.
  • Syntax Serif - 1999, Linotype.
  • ABC-Schulschrift - for Swiss school primers, 2001–2008.
  • Elysa - 2002, Elsner+Flake.
  • Gesta Antiqua - 2004, Elsner+Flake
  • Meier Kapitalis - 2012–2014, Elsner+Flake

References

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  1. ^ Hans Eduard Meier. In: emuseum.ch, retrieved 16 January 2023.
  2. ^ [1]"Morto il creatore di Syntax" (in Italian). 2014. RSI014.
  3. ^ "Hans Eduard Meier, † July 15, 2014". 2014. Linotype.com. Archived from the original on August 23, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  4. ^ TDC News:TDC2 2000 Archived 2012-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ bukva:raz! results Archived 2008-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ ParaType: Humanist 531 font
  7. ^ "U&lc Online Issue: 25.4.1: The Winners". Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2008-11-14.

Bibliography

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  • Devroye, Luc. "Hans Eduard Meier". Type Design Information.
  • Max Caflisch, Die Druckschriften [1955 bis 1995] von Hans Eduard Meier, dans: TM-RSI N° 6/1996.
  • Dossier Hans Eduard Meier, TM-RSI, N° 3/2014, pp. 1–26, contributions by d'Erich Alb, Roger Chatelain, Sumner Stone, Katharine Wolff, Max Caflisch. Typografische Monatsblätter.
  • Jubert, Roxane (2012). "Hans Eduard Meier, a life dedicated to letter design". Typotheque.com.
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