Talk:Jan Tschichold
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i've read on the &cond website that he was imprisoned for creating fonts that made Germans sad (or something like that). is that true? can anybody confirm it?
He was charged with cultural Bolshevism and "un-Germanic typography" as was Paul Renner, designer of the Futura typeface. CApitol3 20:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tschichold image/portrait
Several weeks ago I replaced the portrait of Tschichold which was combined with his name and life dates. The reason being two-fold: the style is very much unlike Tschichold: shadow multicolored typography, a two-color frame device around the photo, upper and lowercase name reading up off the page, the upper and lowercase he would have done, but the dates are then set in lining (non-old style) figures which Tschichold considered apporpriate only with uppercase text or in use of sans serif. The assymetric layout of that composition was more typical of Tschichold's earlier work when he embraced sans-serif. But once he embraced serif (that piece did use a Tschichold face, Sabon) he did not use assymetrical layout or multi-directional reading paths. Probably more important is that in the context of being about a typographer with very specific (rigid?) ideas about typography the insertion of a piece not by him or one of his contemporaries would be considered "new research" which wikipedia prohibits. A piece like that can be created to illustrate an article, but in this context it should not be. To reconstruct an illustration of the Van de Graaf canon would not be considered new research. But a personal expression that contains design content suggests a possible academic or historical provenance the piece doesn't have.CApitol3 22:30, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
