Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Typographic Titans of Yesteryear
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Swiss designer's namesake sans-serif bridges function and form in signage.
- 2. Viennese avant-gardist blending geometric precision with typographic clarity.
- 3. Typographic historian and designer resurrecting classics with a scholarly eye.
- 6. Old English foundry legend whose typeface spellbound the American Declaration.
- 8. American master whose type underpinned newspapers and literary endeavors alike.
- 13. French neoclassical innovator of the ‘modern’ serif with razor-thin strokes.
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- 4. Calligrapher whose alphabetic wizardry forever changed text’s graceful flow.
- 5. Eighteenth-century craftsman whose type cries clarity, not Sir Arthur’s melancholy.
- 7. Renaissance punch-cutter whose fonts still dance elegantly on every printed page.
- 9. Pioneering punch-cutter, antique’s subtle architect behind copperplate aesthetics.
- 10. British sculptor turned typographer, his stone-carved letters breathe humanism.
- 11. Printer whose Gothic letterforms are rooted in medieval manuscript tradition.
- 12. Modern serif maestro famed for contrast extremes and neoclassical austerity.
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