About 

Arthur Schwarz is a Swiss type designer and font engineer. His interest in type design grew early in his design practice and began his studies in 2015 at HEAD in Geneva, where he earned a Bachelor degree with honors in 2018. He then went on to study at écal in Lausanne, graduating in 2020 with a Master in Type Design. He interned at &Walsh in New York and Extraset Type Foundry in Geneva, where he developed the ES Build typeface. Between 2020 and 2022, he collaborated with Xavier Erni to design ES Dokument. He also collaborated with other designers and type foundries such as Enen Studio, lo-ol Type and Production Type.

Fonts are available upon request. Please, get in touch for a quote at contact@arthurschwarz.ch. 

About

Arthur Schwarz is a Type Designer, Font Developer and Chief Marketing Officer at Production Type since 2021.

Anything related to letters is in his scope: custom typeface, logotype, lettering, poster, layout, you name it. His meticulous and detail-oriented approach leads to optimal and authentic solutions.

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Services 

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

Type Services 

· Art direction (Retail + Custom)
· Character set expansion
· Consistancy check
· Consulting
· Custom type design
· Custom logotype + Lettering
· Font development (Geometric, Grotesque, Serif, Monospace, Proportional, Pixel, Engraving)
· Italic design
· Language support (Diacritics)
· Mastering
· Merics (Spacing, Kerning, Vertical metrics)
· Naming
· OpenType features 
· Proofing (Standard + Hinting)
· Softwares (Glyphs, Robofont, Kern On, Metrics Machine, OTMaster, Font Goggles)
· Spacing, kerning
· Static font into variable font
· Testing (Mac + PC)
· Weight expansion
· Width expansion

Fonts I was involved in

Extraset
· ES Allianz
· ES Build
· ES Dokument

Fontef
· Tam

lo-ol Type
· Ortank

Production Type
· Cardinal
· Gamuth
· Kessler
· Paramount
· PVC

Type Services 

· Art direction (Retail + Custom)
· Character set expansion
· Consistancy check
· Consulting
· Custom type design
· Custom logotype + Lettering
· Font development (Geometric, Grotesque, Serif, Monospace, Proportional, Pixel, Engraving)
· Italic design
· Language support (Diacritics)
· Mastering
· Merics (Spacing, Kerning, Vertical metrics)
· Naming
· OpenType features 
· Proofing (Standard + Hinting)
· Softwares (Glyphs, Robofont, Kern On, Metrics Machine, OTMaster, Font Goggles)
· Spacing, kerning
· Static font into variable font
· Testing (Mac + PC)
· Weight expansion
· Width expansion

Selected Clients

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

Selected Clients

· &Walsh
· Base Design
· Core Medica
· Crack Magazine
· Enen Studio
· Extraset
· Festival du LÀC
· Fontef
· Geneva Conservatory of Music
· Hirslanden Group
· LO-OL Type Foundry
· Luxury Venture Group
· SIG - Services Industriels de Genève
· Starks Age Management
· Swiss Olympic Curling Team
· Vogue
· Ville de Montreuil

Conferences & Lectures

2023 · ATypI - The font business is broken: can we fix it? (Paris, France)
2022 · In Design We Trust 6 by Association Design Conseil. Business of Type: Type of Business (Paris, France)
2022 · Design Society Talk at Plymouth University (Plymouth, UK)

Conferences & Lectures

2022 · In Design We Trust 6 by Association Design Conseil. Business of Type: Type of Business (Paris, France)

2022 · Design Society Talk at Plymouth University (Plymouth, UK)

Exhibitions & Features

· BASE 10, part of NGV Melbourne Design Week 2021 (Australia)
· Diploma exhibition 2020, écal - Lausanne, University of Art and Design
· Diploma exhibition 2018, HEAD - Geneva, University of Art and Design
· Graphic Matters Festival 2017, “Save Our Souls” (Breda, NL)
· Weltformat Poster Festival 2016, “Grids Tools and Swimsuits” (Lucerne, Switzerland)

Exhibitions

2021 · BASE 10, part of NGV Melbourne Design Week (Australia)

2020 · Diploma exhibition, écal - Lausanne, University of Art and Design

2018 · Diploma exhibition, HEAD - Geneva, University of Art and Design

2017 · Graphic Matters Festival, “Save Our Souls” (Breda, NL)

2016 · Weltformat Poster Festival, “Grids Tools and Swimsuits” (Lucerne, Switzerland)

Education

2020 · écal, Master of Type Design (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2018 · HEAD, Bachelor of Visual Communication (Geneva, Switzerland)
2016 · WDKA, Erasmus (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Education

Master of Type Design, écal - University of Art and Design (2018 - 2020 / Lausanne, Switzerland)

Erasmus, WDKA - University of Art and Design (2016 / Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Bachelor of Visual Communication, HEAD - University of Art and Design (2015 - 2018 / Geneva, Switzerland)