Syntax (typeface)

The syntax is a font. There is a linear sans, designed 1968-1972 by Hans Eduard Meier, where he had worked but since the fifties.

Syntax was first published in 1972 by D. Stempel AG. It remains one of the most widely used sans serif fonts.

Features

Driving force for the development of syntax was the realization that the available sans serif fonts were not enough in formal terms for Hans Eduard Meier. As a calligrapher, who was used to writing pen just letters, he rejected the rigid forms of the fifties and sixties in the printers available sans serif fonts ( Akzidenz-Grotesk, Haas Grotesk or Helvetica, mono -Grotesk ) from. Meier fell back in the syntax of the formal principle of Renaissance Antiqua, in terms of the strokes and the proportion of cap height to x-height, upper and lower length. This turns it into a strong character writing, which is inclined a shade to the right and end their round and diagonal strokes visually with rectangular statements.

As of 1995, revised Meier along with the Linotype Syntax font family. For one, he refined the original syntax ( now: Linotype Syntax ) and extended these additional cuts. On the other hand, he added the sans serif syntax - family three other families added: Linotype Syntax Serif ( a version of the syntax fonts, but with serifs ), Linotype Syntax Letter ( a handwriting -like serif ) and Linotype Syntax Lapidar ( allusion to carved antique writings, to syntax appropriate). Overall, the above font families include more than 100 typefaces, of which more than so-called Alternate fonts ( small caps, old style figures ).