Having fled the Nazis, Elizabeth Friedlander created her own typeface before moving to Kinsale

Before she moved to Kinsale in the 1960s, Elizabeth Friedlander had already fled the Nazis, designed covers for Penguin books and created her own typeface, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Having fled the Nazis, Elizabeth Friedlander created her own typeface before moving to Kinsale

In the late 1930s, German designer and typographer Elizabeth Friedlander was asked to create a typeface by the Bauer Foundry in Frankfurt, a unique commission for a woman at the time.

However, Friedlander’s achievement was overshadowed by political circumstances in Germany, as the Nazis rose to power.

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