Vialog® is based on a normally proportioned transportation typeface that Professor Werner Schneider designed as 'Euro Type' for the German Federal Transportation Ministry in 1988. Behind its forms are comprehensive studies of the legibility of European transportation typefaces regarding their optimization and standardization.
Professor Schneider worked with Helmut Ness of the design agency Fuenfwerken to give the typeface a new look. The main idea was to create a space-saving text typeface
[...]Serifs: The serifs of the i, j and l emphasize the text structure and optimized legibility. (See figure 1)
Forms: The practical, open forms lead to optimal identification of the individual characters as well as high degree of legibility in texts. (See figure 2)
Numerals: The forms of the numerals were designed for the unmistakable transmission of important information. The numerals of Vialog distinguish themselves through their clarity and uniqueness. The silhouettes of the 6 and the 9
[...]The German designers Helmut Ness and Markus Remscheid created the font Linotype Russisch Brot in 1997. Linotype Russisch Brot is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from contestants of Linotype's International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. The inspiration of the two designers is not hard to see for those who are familiar with the chocolate cookies in the form of letters which are called Russisches Brot. The font is available in six weights. The basic weight is perfectly
[...]Born in Marburg/Lahn, Germany, in 1935. Studied at the School of Applied Arts in Wiesbaden with Professor Friedrich Poppl from 1954 to 1958. Almost 40 years as a teacher at the School/University of Applied Arts in Wiesbaden, area of instruction: communication design with emphasis on type and typography. Preferred areas of work: corporate design, type design, type and book graphics.
Numerous international awards and honors, among others from the Type Directors Club, New York, The Art
[...]Vialog is based on a normally proportioned transportation typeface that Professor Werner Schneider designed as 'Euro Type' for the German Federal Transportation Ministry in 1988. Behind its forms are comprehensive studies of the legibility of European transportation typefaces regarding their optimization and standardization.
Professor Schneider worked with Helmut Ness of the design agency Fuenfwerken to give the typeface a new look. The main idea was to create a space-saving text typeface
[...]Sans Serif Fonts
Italic forms: The italic forms of Vialog are not simply the slanted forms of the roman, rather, were individually designed. A graphically balanced typeface results from the reduced weight of curve ends and lightly arched outline of the straight strokes. (See figure 1)
Horizontal weights: The horizontal weight is designed to allow a horizontal scaling of up to 105%. (See figure 2)
Organically dynamic form concept: The key figure S is an outstanding example of the organically dynamic form
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Vialog is a large and versatile sans serif family consisting of four weights of roman with corresponding italics, each with small caps and Old style Figures, released by Linotype in 2002. Designers Werner Schneider and Helmut Ness based the concept for Vialog on the forms in "Euro Type," an unpublished type designed by Schneider in 1988 for the German Federal Transportation Ministry. For Vialog, Schneider made comprehensive legibility studies of the existing European transportation fonts, and combined and adapted the best features to make a new information system font family. He fine-tuned Vialog's characters and spacing with a special regard to the legibility problems of transportation settings, such as viewing type at distances and while moving. For example: cap I, J and lowercase i, j are common legibility problems in sans serif fonts, so in Vialog, these characters have serifs. In addition to its usefulness to the transportation industry, the Vialog family confidently meets the needs of corporate design and branding systems with its space-saving attributes for text settings, as well as the large number of weights and styles.
