Hans Eduard Meier

Hans Eduard Meier, was a Swiss type designer. He created the neohumanist typeface Syntax at Stempel Foundry, along with Barbedor, Letter and Lapidar.

Awards

Linotype Syntax won the Type Directors Club Type Design Competition award in the year 2000 under the text or display type systems category.
Bitstream Humanist 531 Cyrillic won awards at the type design contests bukva:raz!, and Kyrillitsa'99, under the text category.

Typefaces designed by Hans Eduard Meier

Syntax - conceived between 1955 and 1964, metal cast by Stempel AG between 1968 and 1972, digitalized by Adobe in 1984, also released as Bitstream Humanist 531.Barbedor - 1984.ITC Syndor - 1986, International Typeface Corporation.Letter - 1992, Linotype.Oberon - 1992.SNB-Alphabet -1994, for the Swiss Bank.Lapidar - 1995, Linotype.LTSyntax - 1997, Linotype.Syntax Serif - 1999, Linotype.ABC-Schulschrift - for Swiss school primers, 2001–2008.Elysa - 2002, Elsner+Flake.Gesta Antiqua - 2004, Elsner+FlakeMeier Kapitalis - 2012–2014, Elsner+Flake