The Architype Albers typeface is one of a collection of several revivals of early twentieth century typographic experimentation designed by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry.

Albers studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich before enrolling as a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920.

He began teaching in the preliminary course of the Department of Design in 1922, and was promoted to professor in 1925, the year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau.

Albers designed a series of stencil faces while teaching at the Dessau Bauhaus.

The typeface is based on a limited palette of geometric forms combined in a size ratio of 1:3.