Bruno Maag (born 1962) is a

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type designer and founder of type design company Dalton Maag. Maag began his career with an apprenticeship as a typesetter for the Tages Anzeiger, Switzerland's largest daily paper. This led him to study Visual Communication at Basel School of Design. During a work experience placement at Stempel, he met Rene Kerfante who later moved to

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and then invited him to join him there. He worked for Monotype both in the UK and in the USA, where he designed fonts for ''

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''. He established Dalton Maag in London in 1991. He is renowned in the typographic community for his strong dislike of the typeface

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Typefaces

Maag has designed several typefaces as part of his design work at Dalton Maag: Aktiv Grotesk, Co, Dedica, Elevon, InterFace, Plume, Royalty, Stroudley and Viato.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maag, Bruno Living people Swiss typographers and type designers 1962 births