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  • Yes, there are scads more innovators, but they're too numerous to mention -- not when there's so much else to say about a volume printed mostly in Jan Tschichold's Sablon but also in samples of every other typeface mentioned.

    David Finkle: Easy Reader: Simon Garfield's Enthralling Just My Type, Christopher Johnson's Less Than Enthralling Microstyle David Finkle 2011

  • The original Sabon typeface designed by Jan Tschichold was itself a revival of Claude Garamond's 16th century types for the 1960's.

    Peter Clothier: The Form of the Book 2009

  • Masterminded by the great typographer Jan Tschichold, the early Penguin Classics have become collectors' items.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Such rigorous attention to design in those early editions was bolstered by the addition of German émigré Jan Tschichold, already established as an eminent writer on typography when he joined the team in 1946, and later the more conservative yet equally attentive Hans Schmoller.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • When the German designer Jan Tschichold took charge of design at Penguin, the British book publisher, in the 1940s, he wrote the Penguin Composition Rules to govern every aspect of design there, including the use of his eight "official" logos.

    NYT > Home Page By ALICE RAWSTHORN 2010

  • He disliked the restrictions suggested by Beatrice Warde and Jan Tschichold, and he would try anything to shake off their suffocating influence.

    The Guardian World News Simon Garfield 2010

  • He disliked the restrictions suggested by Beatrice Warde and Jan Tschichold, and he would try anything to shake off their suffocating influence.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • He disliked the restrictions suggested by Beatrice Warde and Jan Tschichold, and he would try anything to shake off their suffocating influence.

    The Guardian World News Simon Garfield 2010

  • I should add that Jan Tschichold, the father of Functionalist typography, states that ligation in German should be set by positional principles and not by syllabic principles.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • Even Jan Tschichold himself admitted that his book was too rigid.

    doggdot.us 2009

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