San serif typography poster

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After WWII, Swiss Haas type foundry commissioned Max Miedinger to refine their Akzidenz Grotesk fonts and market them as Neue Haas Grotesk, what we now know as Helvetica. From History Graphic Design 20 by Alki1, via Flickr History Graphic Design, Joseph Muller, Vintage Typography Poster, Max Miedinger, Armin Hofmann, International Typographic Style, Art Trippy, Swiss Style, Graphic Design Collection

Switzerland had survived WWII as a neutral country (along with Sweden) and a group of Swiss designers, who had been developing fresh, new, concepts of design from the 1930's on, now came onto the center stage of International graphic design. After the war, the Swiss Haas type foundry commisioned Max Miedinger to refine and upgraph their older Akzidenz Grotesk fonts and they marketed the revision as Neue Haas Grotesk ( San-serif type faces go by the name Grotesk in Europe). Around 1958 the…

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