Bandit

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Neubühl-Siedlung
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PaperMills 5.41000.00
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Max Ernst Haefeli &18.5 cm TypenmöbelMusterwohnungen
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Architecture FoundationSTF #4 (EA-616): 1952–CHWB–Ulmer Hocker[1954].
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INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY OF CONSTRUCTION, PARTICULARLY THE USE OF GLASS, METAL, AND REINFORCED CONCRETE; THE IDEA THAT FORM SHOULD FOLLOW FUNCTION (FUNCTIONALS)...
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The turn from Expressionism towards the more familiarly Modernist styles of the mid-late 1920s came under the influence of the Dutch avant-garde, particularly De Stijl, whose architects such as Jan Wils and JJP Oud had adapted ideas derived from Frank Lloyd Wright into cubic social housing.
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The shortest, oldest, angriest, evilest, and least stupid of the brothers, Joseph "Joe" Dalton, is the leader of the gang who frequently masterminds their prison breaks and various schemes. Perpetually furious and motivated chiefly by a consuming hatred of Lucky Luke and Rantanplan, Joe frequently beats up his youngest brother Averell for his dim-wittedness. Joe is quick to draw his gun but is fortunately not much of a shooter.

If you thought Swiss modernism had nothing to do with the American Old West, think again. Bandit belongs to a gang of four whose lineage crosses the Atlantic. The typeface is the result of a happy marriage between burgeoning rationalist ideas and American wood type shapes, which makes it perfect for expressive applications ranging from (wanted) posters, headlines and section dividers. In the 1930s, designers in Switzerland – influenced by modernist ideas and forms – drew geometric typefaces using a modular system. At the same time, the Swiss shapes’ inverted contrasts share features with 18th and 19th century North American wood type. This incongruity is the starting point behind Bandit, which also comes armed with a variable font that stretches faster than its shadow. The family is a synthesis of these influences. It results in a flexible, multi-condensed display typeface with a geometric construction softened by the impact of wood type.

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Bandit’s “famiglia” includes Pierre Gauchat, Max Bill and Max Miedinger. In the 1930s, Gauchat developed a lettering style for one of his main clients, the Swiss furniture company Embru,¹ which has produced now-classic pieces by Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer and Flora Steiger-Crawford. More mundanely, virtually everyone in Switzerland has used their trousers on the company’s furniture for schools, municipal halls or canteens. Another grandfather of Swiss design, Max Bill not only used condensed slab typefaces early on² but also developed his own letterings, for instance in the “Wohnausstellung Neubühl”³ poster which is linked with the “Neues Bauen” architectural movement. Bill’s soft spot for wood type as well as his original modular letterings were particularly influential for the development of Bandit. Lastly, Miedinger’s Pro Arte⁴ is a slightly younger forebear. The 1950s typeface is an inverted slab serif of the genre known as “Italienne” which looks like a more constructed version of Robert Harling’s Playbill.⁵ Its combination of geometric and modular shapes is also to be found in Bandit’s DNA. These Swiss origins were observed through an American lens which coloured their appearance. As a result, Bandit is a modern, cross-continental typeface which will leave its mark wherever it is used.

1     Embru Logo, Pierre Gauchat, 1930
2    Verkaufsaustellung Poster, Max Bill, 1931
3    Neubühl Poster, Max Bill, 1931
4    Pro Arte, Max Miedinger, Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei, 1954
5    Playbill, Robert Harling, Stephenson Blake, 1938

Technical Information:

Design: Sylvan Lanz
Classification: Geometric Condensed Sans
Cuts: 4 + Variable
Mastering: Michele Patanè
Cover artwork: Sylvan Lanz
First sketch: 2020
Released: 2023
Latest update: 05/2023

OpenType Features:
aalt
Access All Alternates
case
Case Sensitive Forms
dnom
Denominator
frac
Fractions
liga
Standard Ligatures
locl
Localized Forms
numr
Numerator
ordn
Ordinals
pnum
Proportional Figures
salt
Stylistic Alternates
sinf
Scientific Inferiors
subs
Subscript
sups
Superscript
tnum
Tabular Figures
ss01
Bauhaus
ss02
Hairline
ss03
Monocase
Supported Languages:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu (Tanzania), Basque, Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba (Kenya), Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu (Tanzania), Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili (macrolanguage), Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek, Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Zulu

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