Konrad Friedrich Bauer (9 December 1903 – 17 March 1970) was a German
type designer
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who, though not related to founder
Johann Christian Bauer, was head of the art department for the
Bauer Type Foundry from 1928 until his retirement in 1968. Bauer's father was a type founder in
Altona and Bauer studied art and the history of lettering before serving a printers's apprentiship. Bauer revived and modified many nineteenth-century designs and he designed
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
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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.
*
Folio
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(
Bauer and
Intertype, 1956–63), also sold as ''Caravelle'' by
Founderie Typographique Francaise.
* Imprimatur (
Bauer, and
Intertype, 1952–55) also sold as ''Horizon'' by
Founderie Typographique Francaise
* Fortune or ''Volta'' (
Bauer 1955)
* Impressum (
Amsterdam Type foundry and
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.
1903 births
1970 deaths
German graphic designers
German typographers and type designers
Academic staff of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Artists from Hamburg
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