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- Barbedor - 1984.
- ITC Syndor - 1986, International Typeface Corporation.
- Letter (Syntax Letter) - 1992, Linotype.
- Oberon - 1992.
- SNB-Alphabet -1994, for the Swiss Bank.
- Lapidar (Syntax Lapidar) - 1995, Linotype.
- LTSyntax - 1997, Linotype.
- Syntax Serif - 1999, Linotype.
- ABC-Schulschrift - for Swiss school primers, 2001–2008.
- Elysa - 2002, Elsner+Flake.
- Gesta Antiqua - 2004, Elsner+F
• Hans Eduard Meier, a life dedicated to letter designH. E. Meier; lowercase letters a and g in Lapidar Display Regular typeface (left) and in Syntax Regular (right). Hans Eduard Meier has devoted his entire life to letter design – creating new fonts, working in typography and calligraphy, whilst also teaching and writing. His activity, as well as his philosophy of life, can be readily understood through the perspective of history, both classical and modern. His passion for calligraphy and for the evolution of writing forms ever since antiquity led to the writing of his compendium Die Schriftenwicklung / The Development of Writing / Le Développement de l’Ecriture, published in 1959. Today, it is still available in a re-edition, with a slightly modified title. Fruit of a vast working knowledge, this concise book, written in three languages, bears the touch of the calligrapher’s hand. As such, it has remained a reference on the subject for more than fifty years. It was also in the 1950s that Hans Eduard Meier started to work on the design of what would become his Syntax font – combining the modernity of sanserif letters with certain characteristics of Renaissance alphabets. It evolved slowly, taking shape over several decades, and underwent several
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