Architype van der Leck

Infobox font
name = Architype van der Leck


style = Sans-serif
classifications = Geometric Sans-serif
creationdate = 1941
releasedate = 1997
creator = Freda Sack
David Quay
Bart van der Leck

foundry = The Foundry

Architype van der Leck is a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon the 1941 typeface designed by Bart van der Leck for the Dutch magazine "Flax," a journal of the De Stijl art movement.

The face is geometrically constructed, and based upon an earlier stencil lettering alphabet van der Leck designed in the early 1930s for use in branding and advertising Jo de Leeuw's presigious Dutch department stores Metz & Co. The face shares structural similarities with Theo Van Doesburg's 1919 geometric alphabet, and anticipates later typographic explorations of geometric reductionism of Wim Crouwel's 1967 "New Alphabet" and early digital faces like Zuzana Licko's faces "Lo-Res" and "Emperor 8." The Architype van der Leck typeface is part of a collection of several revivals of early twentieth century typographic experimentation designed by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry.

References

*Blackwell, Lewis. "20th Century Type." Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
*Haley, Allen. "Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts." Rockport Publishers Inc, Gloucester; 1998. ISBN 1-56496-317-9
*Hoek, Els, Marleen Blokhuis, Ingrid Goovaerts, Natalie Kamphuys, et al. "Theo Van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogus." Centraal Museum: 2000. ISBN 90-6868-255-5.
*Meggs, Philip. B and McKelvey, Roy. "Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces." RC Publications; 2002. ISBN 1-883915-08-2

External links

* [http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/foundry_architype_1/archi_1.html Architype 1 types]
* [http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/foundry_sans/sans_extra.html Website for The Foundry]
* [http://www.emodigi.de/emodigi_site/foundry/foundry.html# Website of Emotional Digital describing work by The Foundry]