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Architype Albers

Architype Albers™

by The Foundry
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Architype Albers Font Family was designed by Freda Sack, David Quay, Josef Albers and published by The Foundry. Architype Albers contains 1 styles.

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    About Architype Albers Font Family


    Architype Konstrukt is a collection of avant-garde typefaces deriving mainly from the work of artists/designers of the inter-war years, whose ideals have helped to shape the design philosophies of the modernist movement in Europe. Due to their experimental nature character sets may be limited. Architype Albers draws on early grid-based attempts by Josef Albers, in 1926, to design an alphabet by reducing the forms to purely geometric elements – the square, triangle and parts of a circle – and in the process creating an unusual stencil effect typeface.

    Designers: Freda Sack, David Quay, Josef Albers

    Publisher: The Foundry

    Foundry: The Foundry

    Design Owner: The Foundry

    MyFonts debut: Jun 27, 2016

    Architype Albers™

    About The Foundry

    Started in 1989–90 by David Quay and Freda Sack, with just two typefaces Foundry Sans and Foundry Old Style, The Foundry typeface library has grown into a unique range of font styles, covering a range of languages and formats. The partners continue to develop new typeface designs to expand The Foundry font collection. David and Freda bring a unique combination of traditional and modern approaches to font design and implementation, having worked in every technological development of type design sin...

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