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After completing an apprenticeship
as an engraver, Daniel Lanz – who was born in 1958
in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) – spent 20 years carving
letterforms and contours into metal. Further education
as a typographic designer – with intensive study of
works of Gill, Meier, and Frutiger – considerably
deepened his interest in the forms and effects of typography.
Digitizing hand-drawn sketches into the skeletal forms of
the alphabet, Lanz began developing various ideas for broader
type face designs. His work on Diverda began in the beginning
of 2002. An initial sans serif design developed into a full-fledged
family over the next two years. During this time, it became
even clearer to Lanz that engraving and type design both serve
the same goals: they both strive to depict the ideal forms
of lines and contours.
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