Architype Bayer

Geometric sans-serif typeface

Category| Sans-serif
Classification| Geometric Sans-serif
Designer(s)| Freda Sack
David Quay
Herbert Bayer
Foundry| The Foundry
Date released| 1997

Architype Bayer is a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon the 1927 experimentation of Herbert Bayer. Bayer reacted to the Germanic use of capitalization for all nouns by abandoning uppercase. His new case combined characters based on the Carolingian minuscule with uppercase K rescaled to top-align on the mean line. The Bayer Architype typeface is one of a collection of several revivals of early twentieth century typographic experimentation designed by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry.

## See also

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* Architype Albers
* Architype Aubette
* Architype Renner
* Architype Schwitters
* Architype van der Leck
* Architype Van Doesburg

## References

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* Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
* Fleischmann, Gerd. Bauhaus Typographie. Oktagon Stuttgart: 1995. ISBN 3-927789-80-1.
* Haley, Allen. Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts. Rockport Publishers Inc, Gloucester; 1998. ISBN 1-56496-317-9
* 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

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* Architype Collections
* Website for The Foundry
* Website of Emotional Digital describing work by The Foundry