Jan van Krimpen

Haarlemmer

'Haarlemmer' by Jan van Krimpen (source: Wikipedia)

Jan van Krimpen (1892 – 1958) was a Dutch typographer and type designer. He worked for the printing house Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé.

Van Krimpen’s type designs are elegant book typefaces, originally made for manual printing and the monotype machine. Although a good few have been digitised (Romulus, Haarlemmer, Spectrum), the typefaces are only rarely used in publications.

Source: Wikipedia

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