Architype Tschichold
The Foundry Types · Jan Tschichold · 1929
A digital rendering of Jan Tschichold's 1929 single-alphabet experimental typeface, part of The Foundry's Architype Universal collection of interwar avant-garde designs.
About
Based on Tschichold's geometrically constructed 1929 alphabet, itself influenced by Herbert Bayer's universal type, this face was never put into commercial production in its own time. The Foundry's revival faithfully reconstructs the original, including its phonetic characters and the stark logic of its single-case system. It sits within the Architype Universal collection, which gathers surviving experimental alphabets from the interwar European modernist movement.
Classification
A single-alphabet geometric construction from the Bauhaus-era avant-garde tradition, with only one case and phonetic characters; best classified as display due to its highly experimental, art-movement-specific form.