Jan Tschichold

^[DE] was a typographer and typefaces designer, a teacher and an author among the most important ones of the 20th century. He was born in Leipzig in 1902 and died in Locarno in 1974. He particularly wrote Die Neue Typographie. Ein Handbuch für zeitgemäss Schaffende, published for the first time in Berlin in 1928. After he fled Nazi Germany to Switzerland in 1933, he spent time on several occasions in England and worked on the standardization of composition’s rules of typefaces collections for Penguin Books publishing house. His most-known typeface is the Sabon, which he designed at the end of the 1960s.