Also in 2007 Schwartz was awarded the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot, given to designers under 35 years of age for “outstanding contributions to type design.” He has been on the short list of the Museum of Design, in London, as Designer of the Year and was rated among the top 40 most influential designers under 40 years of age by Wallpaper* and on Time’s list of top 100 designers. The studio’s projects include typefaces for The Guardian, Esquire, T (The New York Times Style Magazine), the Empire State Building and Sprint.

In 2007, he and London designer Paul Barnes founded Commercial Type. After returning to the United States, he worked at type studio Font Bureau, going independent in 2001. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., he worked for a time at MetaDesign in Berlin. The Cyrillic extension was drawn by Ilya Ruderman (CSTM Fonts) in 2015.Ĭhristian Schwartz, a type designer and one of the founders of the type foundry Commercial Type, lives and works in New York.

The typeface is available in nine weights, with italics, each with five sets of figures. By the way, the web-site of type.today is set in Graphik. It is suitable for display purposes as well as for text sizes, captions and for such specific tasks as navigation systems and map-making. The low contrast and large x-height give the typeface great versatility. The heavy end of the family is inspired in part by Paul Renner’s Plak, a relatively obscure display typeface cut only in large sizes.įirst drawn as the house style for Schwartzco Inc., it was further developed for Condé Nast Portfolio and later for Wallpaper* and T, the New York Times Style Magazine. These influences included Neuzeit Grotesk, Folio, Recta, and Maxima. The lighter weights were influenced by the less popular sans serifs that many European foundries released to compete with Futura, Helvetica and Univers, the juggernauts of 20th century sans serifs. Graphik was inspired by the appealing plainness seen in many of the less common 20th century European sans serifs and in the hand-lettering of classic Swiss Modern posters.

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