Bart van der Leck

With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement.

Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht.

In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the prestigious Dutch department store Metz & Co. to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising.

For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear, geometrically constructed alphabet.

Architype van der Leck, a digital revival of that face by David Quary and Freda Sack of The Foundry, was released in 1994.