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Books by Jan Tschichold

Jan Tschichold (1902–1974) was a German typographer, book designer, and teacher who became one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century graphic design. Born in Leipzig, he published Die neue Typographie at 26 after seeing the Bauhaus exhibition of 1923. He fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland in 1933, and later moved to England to redesign the Penguin Books line. In his later career he became a leading defender of classical typography, repudiating much of his early modernist position. His other works include The Form of the Book, Typographische Gestaltung, and Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering.