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Ehrhardt was first released in 1937, adapted from the designs of the 17th-century Hungarian designer Miklós Kis.
The typeface Ehrhardt was first released in 1937. It was adapted from the designs of the Hungarian typeface designer Miklós Kis (1650-1702,) who trained and worked in Amsterdam. His work was the basis for the Stempel Janson typeface, Janson Text, and Ehrhardt.
Notes and sources:
Alexander Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
Ellen Lupton, Thinking With Type
Phillip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design
Alan Bartram, Five Hundred Years of Book Design
Wikipedia, among others. Some images from Wikipedia are used under the Creative Commons license, and have been resized.
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