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Jan Tschichold: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born April 2, 1902 • Leipzig • Germany
Died August 11, 1974 (aged 72) • Locarno • Switzerland
Notable Works “The New Typography; A Handbook for Modern Designers”

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Page from a brochure announcing Jan Tschichold's book Die neue Typographie, designed by Tschichold, 1928.
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Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Times New Roman
Stanley Morison
English typographer
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Giovanni Mardersteig
Italian printer
Bodoni, engraving
Giambattista Bodoni
Italian printer
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William Caslon
English printer
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Bruce Rogers
American typographer
Walker, Emery: Brooks's in the Olden Time
Sir Emery Walker
English printer
Goudy, Frederic W.
Frederic W. Goudy
American printer and typographer
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W.A. Dwiggins
American artist
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S.H. de Roos
Dutch typographer
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Simon de Colines
French printer
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Nicolas Jenson
French printer
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Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
British book designer
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Pierre-Simon Fournier
French engraver
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Claude Garamond
French publisher
Fraktur fonts
Rudolf Koch
German artist
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William Morris
British artist and author
El Lissitzky cover
El Lissitzky
Russian artist
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Eric Gill
British artist and printer
A legendary graphic designer
Milton Glaser
American graphic designer and illustrator