Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos (14 September 1877 – 3 April 1962), better known as S. H. de Roos, was a Dutch

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designer and artist.

Life and work

De Roos was born in Drachten to a cobbler, but moved to

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at an early age. It was here that, between the ages of twelve and fourteen, he trained to be a

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. Later he studied at the ''Teekenschool voor Kunstambachten'' (The School of Drawing for the Arts and Crafts), part of the

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.A. J. C. M. Gabriëls,
Roos, Sjoerd [Hendrik] de (1877-1962)
(in Dutch), ''

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'', 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2022. In his early years De Roos was inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement. An example of this can be found in his edition of ''Kunst en Maatschappij'' (''Art and Society'' (1903)). As a supporter of

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, De Roos attempted to create the ideal of ‘Art to the People’. Between 1907 and 1941 he was employed by the Amsterdam Type foundry (known previously as ''N. Tetterode''), where he further developed his lithographic skills. During this period he designed, a new type face, the ''Hollandsche Mediæval'', the first Dutch made typeface for 150 years. In total De Roos designed twelve type faces, the most successful being the ''Hollandsche mediæval'', the ''Egmont'', the ''Libra'' and the ''De Roos Roman and Italic''. Archive material, as well as the ''Tetterode Collection'' both attributed to De Roos, are available at the Library of the

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. Further archives are available at the City Library of Haarlem, the

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, the

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in Haarlem and the ''Museum Smallingerland'' in Drachten.

Typefaces

* Nieuw Javaansch No. 1 (1909)

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,
Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos
, Home Page Luc Devroye. Retrieved 10 October 2022. * Hollandse Mediaeval (1912) * Zilvertype (1914–1916, with Jean-François van Royen) * Ella Cursief (1916) * Erasmus Mediaeval (c. 1923) * Meidoorn (1928) * Nobel (1929) * Egmont (1933) * Simplex (1937) * Libra Uncial (1938) * De Roos Romein/Cursief (1947) * De Roos Inline

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roos, S.H. de 1877 births 1962 deaths Dutch graphic designers Dutch typographers and type designers People from Drachten

Life and work

Typefaces

References

Further reading

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