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Max Miedinger

1910 - 1980

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Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 – 8 March 1980) was a Swiss typeface designer, best known for creating the Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957, renamed Helvetica in 1960. Marketed as a symbol of cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica achieved immediate global success. Between 1926 and 1930 Miedinger trained as a typesetter in Zurich, after which he attended evening classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. By the time Miedinger died in 1980, his Helvetica idea, for which the company Linotype paid him royalties until the time of his death, had become a huge part of the typographical landscape. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Miedinger is the 80th most popular designer (down from 76th in 2019), the 568th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 517th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Max Miedinger ranks 80 out of 104. Before him are Lia van Leer, Robert Kalina, Ollie Johnston, Bill Moggridge, Erik Spiekermann, and Catherine Martin. After him are Norman Bel Geddes, Colleen Atwood, Yvonne Blake, Marc Davis, Chiara Ferragni, and Abdulaziz al-Omari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Max Miedinger ranks 310. Before him are Óscar Osorio, Petar Trifunović, John R. Pierce, Mario Alborta, William Schuman, and Inge Meysel. After him are Abraham Polonsky, Jack Carson, Felipe Rosas, Josef Hassmann, Robert Buron, and Charles Kieffer. Among people deceased in 1980, Max Miedinger ranks 243. Before him are Joseph Banks Rhine, James Smith McDonnell, Muriel Freeman, Wilhelmina Cooper, Finn Ronne, and Petar Trifunović. After him are Louis Guilloux, Luis Muñoz Marín, Erast Garin, Alberto Soria, Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Max Miedinger ranks 568 out of 1,015. Before him are Hans-Peter Tschudi (1913), Loris Kessel (1950), Ciriaco Sforza (1970), Vittore Gottardi (1941), Alain de Botton (1969), and Gottfried Diener (1926). After him are Mario Frick (1974), Marc Rosset (1970), Bernard Challandes (1951), Richard Dürr (1938), Elizabeth Thompson (1846), and Toni Branca (1916).

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Among DESIGNERS In Switzerland

Among designers born in Switzerland, Max Miedinger ranks 2. Before him are Adrian Frutiger (1928).

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