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The FF Bau family of sans serif typefaces is a sizable workhorse of the "Grotesk" style. Its creator, Christian Schwartz, took inspiration from the Grotesk fonts created by the Leipzig foundry Schelter & Giesecke. These well-liked Grotesks, which were first offered by Schelter & Giesecke in the late 1800s, were sold for many years.
These faces were chosen as the primary selection in their printing shop when the Bauhaus moved nearby to Dessau in the middle of the 1920s, and they were prominently used in the vast majority of their classic experiments in asymmetrical typography.
Its Super weight was added for situations where subtlety would be inappropriate. Its Regular, Medium, and Bold styles are directly taken from Schelter & Giesecke sources.
The italics were also made up, based on the original Romans, and their slight awkwardness fits it well. The family was introduced in 2002 under the moniker FF Bau as a tribute to the most illustrious users of the original Grotesks. This font is very close to the helvetica neue font.
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