Editing Jan Tschichold (section)

==Typefaces==
[[File:Sabon2.png|thumb|'''Sabon typeface''' designed by Tschichold, and released in 1967. One of its earliest uses was by [[Bradbury Thompson]] in setting the Washburn College Bible.]]

Between 1926 and 1929, he designed a “universal alphabet” to clean up the few multigraphs and non-phonetic spellings in the German language. For example, he devised brand new characters to replace the multigraphs ''ch'' and ''sch''. His intentions were to change the spelling by systematically replacing ''eu'' with ''oi'', ''w'' with ''v'', and ''z'' with ''ts''. Long vowels were indicated by a [[Macron (diacritic)|macron]] below them, though the [[Umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]] was still above. The alphabet was presented in one typeface, which was [[sans-serif]] and without capital letters.

Typefaces Tschichold designed include:
* Transit (1931) for "[[Lettergieterij Amsterdam|Lettergieterij Amsterdam, voorheen Tetterode]]", 
* Saskia (1931/1932), for: [[Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry|Schelter & Giesecke]], [[Leipzig]]
* Zeus (1931) for: [[Schriftguss AG]], [[Dresden]]
* Uhertype-Standard-Grotesk (1931), for an early [[phototypesetting]] machine. Essentially a modified [[Gill Sans]].<ref name="Horn Uhertype">{{cite news|last1=Horn|first1=Frederick A.|title=Gutenberg on his Metal: c|url=http://magazines.iaddb.org/issue/CAI/1936-02-01/edition/null/page/42|access-date=12 August 2017|work=Art & Industry|date=1936|pages=42–3|archive-date=2019-07-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731164213/https://magazines.iaddb.org/issue/CAI/1936-02-01/edition/null/page/42|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Hollis2006 Uhertype">{{cite book|author=Richard Hollis|title=Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XO-LMDo4yQC&pg=PA199|year=2006|publisher=Laurence King Publishing|isbn=978-1-85669-487-2|page=199}}</ref>
* [[Sabon (typeface)|Sabon]] (1966/1967) [http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_088.jhtml].

Sabon was designed to be a typeface that would give the same reproduction on both [[Monotype]] and [[Linotype machine|Linotype]] systems and there were also matrices made for type foundries. All type produced could be interchanged. It was used early after its release by [[Bradbury Thompson]] to set the [[Washburn University|Washburn College]] Bible. A “Sabon Next” was later released by Linotype as an ‘interpretation’ of Tschichold's original Sabon.