Hellmut G. Bomm (HGB) was born in 1948 and studied typeface and book design in Stuttgart (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste). He opened his own graphics studio in 1975. Based in Backnang near Stuttgart, he has always been interested in typeface design. After taking second place in Linotype's 2nd International Type Design Contest in 1997 with his Humanistika, he increasingly concentrated on developing font families.
