About

Arthur Schwarz is a Swiss designer. His interest for type design grew early in his design practice. He began his studies in 2015 at HEAD/University of Art and Design Geneva, where he earned a Bachelor degree of Visual Communication with honors in 2018. He then went on to study at écal/University of Art and Design Lausanne, graduating in 2020 with a Master in Type Design.

In 2021, he joined the type foundry Production Type in its Paris office. First as a type designer and since 2024 as Communication Lead. In addition to this role, Schwarz is a type designer and has worked for clients such as Vogue, Humane, Crack Magazine, and Swiss Olympic and with multiple entities, including &Walsh, Extraset, Socio Type, Futur Neue, LO-OL Type, Fontef, Neo Neo, Margot Lévêque, Cécile+Roger, Enen Studio and more.

Services

· Design logo, logotype, lettering, pictograms
· Design consultation
· Design direction for projects involving typography
· Expanding fonts with weights, widths, slants
· Language support 
· Mastering + Engineering
· OpenType Feature programming + testing

Conferences & Lectures

· ATypI 2023 – The font business is broken: can we fix it? (2023 – Paris, France)
· In Design We Trust 6 by ADC – Business of Type: Type of Business (2022 – Paris, France)
· Design Society Talk at Plymouth University – How to type design (2022 – Plymouth, UK)

Selected Clients

· &Walsh
· Base Design
· Crack Magazine
· Enen Studio
· Geneva Conservatory of Music
· Humane
· SIG (Services Industriels de Genève)
· Swiss Olympic
· Vogue
· Ville de Montreuil

Fonts I contributed to

Extraset 
ES Allianz, ES Build, ES Dokument, ES Face, ES Klarheit, ES Nein, ES Peak, ES Quarz, ES Rebond

Fontef 
Tam

LO-OL Type 
Ortank

Production Type
Cardinal, Gamuth, Kessler, Paramount, PVC

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Fonts are available upon request. Please, get in touch to purchase a license at contact@arthurschwarz.ch.