Jan Tschichold is: one of the most influential typographers that has ever existed. He was born in 1902 out of Leipzig, Germany.He spent his life designing type faces, teaching, writing books, and pushing the art of Typography. Tschichold started teaching at the young age of 19, because he had such an understanding of his craft. But while he existed in his world he noticed the lack of consistent, quality typography. He then started to re-invent the barely known art of typography. Jan designed many type fonts that became classics, but after visting Weimar he was heavily influenced by the Bauhaus styles and from then on followed a very modernistic style himself. Contiuning with his modern outlook on typography, Jan took the print industry by strom. His book "The New Typography" spread like gospel, and is found to be an invaluable source of working principles for amateur and pro designer alike. He advocated the use of standardized paper sizes for all printed materials and items, and made some of the first clear explanations of the sensible use of different sizes and weights of type in order to quickly and easily convey lots of information.
He is well known for designing a "universal alphabet" which showed how much he highly detested the seriff. The entire alphabet was presented in one typeface, that was sans-serif without capital letters. Even after his prime years Jan continued to write books, teach and inspire the modern world of typography for years to come.
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