Her source material came from a set of capital letters that Bauhuas student Alfred Arndt drew for a poster in 1923. Preuss is a student of type design at HGB Leipzig.Ĭéline Hurka, a student at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, captures the spirit of 1920s Bauhaus-influenced posters with Alfarn. Reross is available in two styles, Quadratic and Rectangular - both designed to a strict grid system but playing with different x-heights.
Under the supervision of Spiekermann and Ulrich, the students designed fresh new fonts based on the original source materials.Įlia Preuss used source material from two different Bauhaus students for Reross: Reinhold Rossig, whose alphabet from 1929 is the primary influence, and Hermann Werner Kubsch, whose poster designs informed the alternate glyphs. Project co-coordinators Erik Spiekermann and Ferdinand Ulrich worked with instructors at five different design schools to nominate students to participate in the project.
Fittingly, these fonts are now a reality thanks to type design students a few generations beyond the Bauhaus era.
