Architype Bayer
The Foundry Types · Herbert Bayer · 1925
A revival of Herbert Bayer's 1925 Bauhaus 'universal' alphabet, originally conceived as a minimal single-case geometric sans that was never cut as a typeface in his lifetime.
About
Drawn from Bauhaus Archiv sketches, this typeface reconstructs Bayer's radical reduction of the Latin alphabet to a single case, stripping out all but the most essential geometric forms. It belongs to The Foundry Types' Architype Universal collection, a series of revivals rooted in the inter-war European modernist movement. The character set is deliberately limited, faithful to the theoretical constraints of the original 'universal alphabet' thesis.
Classification
A revival of Herbert Bayer's 1925 'universal' single-alphabet Bauhaus design, built on strict geometric principles with minimal distinction between upper and lowercase forms.