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Neoklass — From Lausanne to Herzl

Neoklass — From Lausanne to Herzl

Eran Ben Barak on the making of Neoklass

During my graduate studies in type design at ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne, Switzerland), I received a brief to...
Olfa — The Ultimate Guinea Pig

Olfa — The Ultimate Guinea Pig

From a Japanese Knife to a Trilingual Display Font

Summer 2011. End of first year at Bezalel. The social protest. Smartphones and Facebook in their infancy, the middle class...
The Lyon Family

The Lyon Family

From 16th-Century Lead Type to Digital Font

“I have the honor of introducing the finest punchcutter”, announced the herald presenting Robert Granjon on September 10, 1579. Granjon...
With a Brush and Mouse

With a Brush and Mouse

This interview was first published on the Ha’Oketz website in 2003. We are republishing it here in full, twenty-three years...
Frank Rühl Very Able

Frank Rühl Very Able

From the 1924 Berthold Catalogue to the 2026 Fontef Catalogue

From 1908 to the present day, “Frank Rühl” has been the most widely-used and dominant text typeface in Hebrew, with...

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