Konrad Friedrich Bauer

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Konrad Friedrich Bauer
Born(1903-12-09)9 December 1903
Hamburg, Germany
Died17 March 1970(1970-03-17) (aged 66)
NationalityGerman
Known forTypography

Konrad Friedrich Bauer (9 December 1903 – 17 March 1970) was a German

Fortune the first Clarendon typeface with a matching italic. He is the author of many books on the history of design and taught book design, type and printing at the University of Mainz
from 1947 until his death.

Fonts designed by Konrad Friedrich Bauer

All faces designed in collaboration with Walter Baum.

  • Alpha (
    Bauer
    , 1954)
  • Beta (
    Bauer
    , 1954), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha.
  • Founderie Typographique Francaise
    .
  • Imprimatur (
    Founderie Typographique Francaise
  • Fortune or Volta (
    Bauer
    1955)
  • Impressum (
    Bauer
    1962)

References

  • Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. .
  • Friedl, Ott, and Stein, Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. .
  • Macmillsn, Niel, An A-Z of Type Designers, Yale University Press, 2006.