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Piet Zwart / Classic dutch typefaces

esthi0 votes

Hello everybody

I am new to this forum and need some help with one of my clients who would like to me to design a book and some art prints for him.

The brief is to find: "one of those classic 1930's Dutch sans serif faces that can be related to Piet Zwart's work.
It does not need to be Dutch — but should convey a sober, direct quality with the friendly but mildly Calvinist overtones of Dutch modernism."

Does anyone have any thoughts on that??

So far I presented him DTL Nobel, Akzidenz Grotesk, Gill Sans, Grotesk MT. I am aware that they don't 100 % match the brief, but couldn't really find anything closer...

I'd be very grateful for some further suggestions!

Thanks heaps!

Riccardo Sartori0 votes

Not on brief either, but very Zwart: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hollandfonts/zwart/

You can look at some other offering from this foundry, like this: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hollandfonts/pacific-standard/

Paul van der La...0 votes

Have a look at Trio Grotesk. A revival by Florian Schick of Kaart Antieke – an early 20th century sans serif used by Piet Zwart in his famous, yet never officially published essay about modern typography called “Van oude tot nieuwe typografie”.

http://www.boldmonday.com/en/triogrotesk

Riccardo Sartori0 votes

You can’t be more on brief than this! ;-)

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