Günter Gerhard Lange, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German type designer
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Place of Birth: Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany
About Günter Gerhard Lange
- Günter Gerhard Lange (12 April 1921 in Frankfurt (Oder) – 2 December 2008 in Munich) was a German typographer.He was longtime art director of Berthold Type Foundry and was one of the fathers of font design after 1945.
- His colleague Dieter Hofrichter remembered him as being particularly interested in revivals of classic designs: "His early typefaces were his own designs — in the 1950s he made several fonts in the style of the times, mostly calligraphic in character.
- At some point he stopped doing original designs and went on to produce only new editions of classic faces, or to revise — and usually improve — designs by others.
- In fact, Lange was not very interested in new designs.
- He simply wanted the fonts that were released to be very well made — in particular the “classics”.
- That was his main ambition: any fonts that were submitted were improved under his scrutiny."
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