Hans Eduard Meier (30 December 1922, Horgen, Switzerland — 15 July 2014, Horgen [1]),[2][3] was a Swiss type designer.
He created the neohumanist typeface Syntax at Stempel Foundry, along with Barbedor (1984), Letter (1992) and Lapidar (1995).
Linotype Syntax won the Type Directors Club Type Design Competition award in the year 2000 under the text or display type systems category.
[4] Bitstream Humanist 531 Cyrillic won awards at the type design contests bukva:raz!,[5][6] and Kyrillitsa'99, under the text category.
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