VAN NELLE Blueprint
JAC. JONGERT
‘a forgotten innovator’
1883 ‒ 1942
VAN NELLE (Blueprint)
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THE SOURCE:
A re-interpretation of the 1926 geometric sans serif alphabet system reproduction by Jacob Jongert, published in a 1930 sourcebook by N.J. van de Vecht. The geometric uppercase set of the alphabet system is what would later become the famous sans serif capitals which he used for lettering throughout many of his Van Nelle materials.
THE SOURCE:
THE REVISION:
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