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Jan Tschichold
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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
Giovanni Mardersteig
Italian printer
Bodoni, engraving
Giambattista Bodoni
Italian printer
William Caslon
English printer
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
W.A. Dwiggins
American artist
S.H. de Roos
Dutch typographer
Simon de Colines
French printer
Nicolas Jenson
French printer
Pierre-Simon Fournier
French engraver
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
British book designer
Claude Garamond
French publisher
Fraktur fonts
Rudolf Koch
German artist
William Morris
British artist and author
El Lissitzky cover
El Lissitzky
Russian artist
Eric Gill
British artist and printer
A legendary graphic designer
Milton Glaser
American graphic designer and illustrator