Architype van der Leck is a geometric sans-serif typeface, based upon the 1941 typeface designed by
Bart van der Leck
Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876 – 13 November 1958) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement.
Biography
Van der Leck was born on 26 November 1876, in Ut ...
for the Dutch magazine ''Flax,'' a journal of the
De Stijl
De Stijl (, ; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, Jacobus Oud, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren, North Holland, Laren (Piet Mo ...
art movement.
The face is geometrically constructed, and based upon an earlier stencil lettering alphabet van der Leck designed in the early 1930s for use in branding and advertising Jo de Leeuw's prestigious Dutch department stores Metz & Co. The face shares structural similarities with
Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg (; born Christian Emil Marie Küpper; 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch painter, writer, poet and architect. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He married three times.
Personal life
Theo van Do ...
's 1919
geometric alphabet, and anticipates later typographic explorations of geometric reductionism of
Wim Crouwel's 1967
''New Alphabet'' and early digital faces like
Zuzana Licko's faces ''
Lo-Res'' and ''
Emperor 8.'' The Architype van der Leck typeface is part of a collection of several revivals of early twentieth century typographic experimentation designed by
Freda Sack
Freda Sack (born 23 September 1951, died 13 February 2019) was a British type designer who began her career at Letraset in 1972, joining as a photographic retoucher. Colleagues attest to her skill at cutting letters from rubylith at Letraset where ...
and David Quay of The Foundry.
See also
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Architype Albers
Architype Albers is a modular stencil sans-serif typeface based upon a series of experiments between 1926 and 1931 by Josef Albers (1888–1976), German designer, educator and typographer. The Architype Albers typeface is one of a collection of ...
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Architype Aubette
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Architype Bayer
Architype Bayer is a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon the 1927 experimentation of Herbert Bayer. Bayer reacted to the Germanic use of capitalization for all nouns by abandoning uppercase. His new case combined characters based on the Car ...
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Architype Renner
Architype Renner is a geometric sans-serif typeface reproducing the experimental alternate characters of Paul Renner's 1927–29 typeface Futura for the Bauer foundry. Renner's original design for Futura shows the influence of Herbert Bayer's e ...
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Architype Schwitters
Architype Schwitters is a geometric sans-serif unicase typeface based upon a 1927 phonetic alphabet designed by Kurt Schwitters. The digital revival, shown at right, was produced by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry.
Like many new experi ...
References
*Blackwell, Lewis. ''20th Century Type.'' Yale University Press: 2004. .
*Haley, Allen. ''Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts.'' Rockport Publishers Inc, Gloucester; 1998.
*Hoek, Els, Marleen Blokhuis, Ingrid Goovaerts, Natalie Kamphuys, et al. ''Theo van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogus.''
Centraal Museum
The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht (city), Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 1838. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, mainly of works produced locally. The collection of the paintings by the Northern Mannerist Joachim Wte ...
: 2000. .
*Meggs, Philip. B and McKelvey, Roy. ''Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces.'' RC Publications; 2002.
External links
Architype 1 types
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Geometric sans-serif typefaces