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Swiss typographer
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Place of birth
Horgen, Switzerland
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CapricornAge
91 years
Residence
Obstalden, Switzerland
Education
Zurich University of the Arts
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Biography
Hans Eduard Meier, born 30 December 1922 in Horgen (Switzerland) deceased 15 July 2014, is a Swiss type designer. Creator of neohumanist typeface SyntaxatStempel Foundry. Also Barbedor (1984), Letter (1992) and Lapidar (1995).
Awards
Linotype Syntax won TDC² 2000 (Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2000) award under the Text/display type systems category.
Bitstream Humanist 531 Cyrillic won awards at Kyrillitsa'99 under text category, and "bukva:raz!" type design contests.
Typefaces designed by Hans Eduard Meier
- Syntax - conceived between 1955 and 1964, metal cast by Stempel AG between 1968 and 1972, digitalized by Adobe in 1984, also released as Bitstream Humanist 531.
- Barbedor - 1984.
- ITC Syndor - 1986, International Typeface Corporation.
- Letter (Syntax Letter) - 1992, Linotype.
- Oberon - 1992.
- SNB-Alphabet -1994, for the Swiss Bank.
- Lapidar (Syntax Lapidar) - 1995, Linotype.
- LTSyntax - 1997, Linotype.
- Syntax Serif - 1999, Linotype.
- ABC-Schulschrift - for Swiss school primers, 2001-2008.
- Elysa - 2002, Elsner+Flake.
- Gesta Antiqua - 2004, Elsner+Flake
- Meier Kapitalis - 2012-2014, Elsner+Flake
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