- * Indra Kupferschmid is a typographer and professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. Hier sammeln sich Fundstücke und Texte.
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Recent Posts
- Akzidenzschriften des 19. Jahrhunderts
- Notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2a – Timeline
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2
- Ekkehardt vs Eckmann – Plagiatsvorwürfe anno 1903
- On the topic of female speakers at conferences (again, sorry)
- Post-graduate courses in typeface design and research
- Why make something that isn’t great?
- Upgrade, but not all the way
- So many good webfonts!
- Some type genres explained
- The responsibilities of the graphic designer
- Typo 9010
- The Pyte Foundry
- Rabatte und Schrift-Trends
- Fonts In Use turned five!?
- Two tweets from my drafts
- Alphabettes
- Max Bollwage’s caricatures of type people
- Type excursion through Italy
- Flipped, droopy, “sign-painter” quotes
- The unforseen merits of girls’ school?
- Proposal:
- Female speakers at conferences
- Equality in our industry
- Typography on the Web
- Deutscher Gießzettel für Antiqua
- Udo Jürgens – Indra
- I had never loved Helvetica
- Live Type Research in Barcelona
- Typeradio Interview
- Students and font licenses
- Auto-optical
- The task of the designer is sometimes also to prevent things
- Mike
- Things in Use
- Die Römische Linkskursive
- hurst
- Typographic Chinese Whispers
- Sarre by Sascha Timplan
- Publishing
- My German Reunification
- The Ideal Type Newsletter
- End of Saarbatical
- I hacked my Messages
- Discounts
- Taking Over Type Foundries
- Interview-Fundstück von Mai 2009
- Typographers are scholars
- Alastair Johnston rants about Helvetica
- The Hamilton Woodtype Museum is the coolest place in type world!
- Notes from Lyon
- Type used in Germany’s best designed books of 2012
- On Responsive Typography
- Multi-axes type families
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk
- Type classifications are useful, but the common ones are not
- sans serif
- Fonts and intellectual property
- Zur Erinnerung: Der erste Spiekermann’sche Lehrsatz
- Font Shopping 2011
- ATypI Konferenz Leipzig 2000
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Classifications
arecan be useful - Life wasn’t easy in phototype days
- Thank you
- On Webdesign and Education
- New Ideas for Book Typography
- Schrift
- De Luc-Truc by Lucas de Groot
- Theoretisch ist Kunst total sinnlos
- Where do you want to drive?
- New column: Ask Indra
- Sometimes less really is less
- Kurt Weidemann, adé.
- Wo bleibt eigentlich Font-Shopping Teil 3?
- Font-Shopping Continues
- Font Shopping (Part I)
- All One!
- Typography ≠ lettering ≠ writing
- The tab, scroll and swipe of the book designer
- Bauhaus, but not in Bauhaus
- The Difference between Humanist, Transitional and Modern Typefaces
- Werde Lehrer für Typografie und Schriftentwurf
- Zwiebelfisch
- noch mal Helvetica
- Have I told you recently, that I love Lars Müller Publishers?
- Typostammtisch am Freitag, 5. Februar
- Ein Schriftfächer-Klassifikations-Musterbuch
- Who is Gando?
- and the winner is …
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 3)
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 2)
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 1)
- Schriftklassifikation in a nutshell
- Webfonts – ein Selbstversuch
- fresh from Frankfurt book fair I+II
- I’m giving a talk
- Decorum im Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
- Exkursionen
- In Defense of Helvetica
- Freunde der Buchstaben kommen gerne gehäuft
About
Indra Kupferschmid is a German typographer and teacher based in Bonn and Saarbrücken. After studying visual communication at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and with Fred Smeijers in the Netherlands, she founded her own studio mainly working in publication design (print and screen); research projects on architecture and housing; typeface development for consumer-product interfaces and electronic devices.
Since 1997 she has been teaching typography and type design at several design schools, and since 2006, she has been a professor at HBKsaar, University of the Arts Saarbrücken, at the South–West German border to France. She’s a member of the DIN committees on legibility of typefaces and type classification, which has also been a long-time research field of hers. Other topics are, among others, the history of 20th century typefaces, especially sans-serifs, especially Akzidenz-Grotesk and Neue Haas-Grotesk/Helvetica, font rendering and reading on screen, choosing typefaces, technological shifts in type production, or Willi Fleckhaus and Twen Magazine.
Her typographic reference book, Buchstaben kommen selten allein, published by Niggli, was awarded one of the best designed books in Germany. She is co-author of Helvetica forever, by Lars Müller Publishers, writes articles, contributes to several publications and websites such as Fonts In Use, Webtype and Typographica, takes part in juries, gives lectures regularly and presents other great minds at the annual TypoBerlin conference.
More:
> Speaking etc.
> Writing
> Flickr
> Twitter
> My deleted LinkedIn profile
For requests and other inquiries: indra at kupferschrift de
(currently taking on design work rather than writing commissions)
The typefaces used on this site are Serge by Cyrus Highsmith for headlines and Gimlet by David Jonathan Ross for body copy.