Joost schmidt typeface anatomy
Schmidt's work focused on the integration of typography with other artistic disciplines, exploring the relationship between text and image.
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Bauhaus (typeface)
Geometric sans-serif typeface
For other uses, see Bauhaus (disambiguation).
The Bauhaustypeface design is based on Herbert Bayer's experimental Universal typeface and the Bauhaus aesthetic overall.
The Bauhaus school sought to modernize, unify and standardize design into an idealistic form that would combine function with aesthetics. One aspect of their many proposed reforms was a series of related Bauhaus typefaces.
Common elements of Bauhaus fonts include geometric, sans-serif letterforms.
An unprecedented look at the school's typography and print design, from its early expressive tendencies to the functional modernism for which it.History
Contrary to their current perception, in its early years, the Bauhaus school printed serif art nouveau typefaces. After some years of design work at the school, Herbert Bayer and Joost Schmidt created the more recognizable proposals—sans-serif geometric letterings, with decorative elements of the font removed for a crisp industrial style.
In that era, they would only be drafts, and were not manufactured into printing typefaces yet,[1] althou