Switzerland

Population: 7,283,274 (July 2001 est.)

Languages: German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 19.2%, Italian (official) 7.6%, Romansch 0.6%, other 8.9%

Background: Switzerland's independence and neutrality have long been honored by the major European powers and Switzerland was not involved in either of the two World Wars. The political and economic integration of Europe over the past half century, as well as...

Currency: Swiss Franc (CHF, CHF (0.93 = US$1))

Data from CIA World Factbook. Click on CIA link for more. Click on map or flag for larger images.

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Swiss Font Foundries

 · abc litera
 · Alex Meier
 · Begiko
 · Bisou
 · Bureau Destruct
 · Catharsis Fonts
 · Dominique Kerber
 · ECMA
 · Essences of Design
 · Fatype
 · Fermin Guerrero
 · FSdesign-Salmina
 · Graceclown
 · Haas
 · Ingrama
 · ISO
 · Jeremia Adatte
 · Kinobrand
 · Kinobrand Design
 · L'Altro
 · Lafonts
 · Letterwerk
 · Lineto
 · Lucywho
 · Lukas Schiltknecht
 · Maklabu Lab
 · H.E. Meier
 · Michael Parson
 · Mr Studio
 · Nootype
 · pictomato
 · QUADRAAT
 · Roman Scherer
 · Serpentype
 · Studio Daulte
 · Studio Yang
 · Tom Marti
 · Type Dynamic
 · Typedifferent
 · Typewerk
 · Typogama
 · VSS
 · Wintype
 · Wraith Types
 · Yasemin Varlik

Swiss Typographic People

 · Jeremia Adatte
 · Erich Alb
 · Mathias Antonietti
 · Auguste Théophile (Theo) Ballmer
 · Theo Ballmer II
 · Thierry Ballmer
 · Nelio Barros
 · Otto Baumberger
 · Max Bill
 · Max Caflisch
 · Julien Daulte
 · Walter J. Diethelm
 · Hermann Eidenbenz
 · Werner Eschmann
 · Frederic Fivaz
 · Ernst Friz
 · Adrian Frutiger
 · Luzi Gantenbein
 · Marco Ganz
 · Lorenzo Geiger
 · Christine Gertsch
 · Giada Celine Ghiringhelli
 · Lorenz (Lopetz) Gianfreda
 · Puri Gómez
 · Erich Gschwind
 · Fermin Guerrero
 · André Gürtler
 · Tobias Gutmann
 · Jost Hochuli
 · Edouard Hoffmann
 · Hans Jörg Hunziker
 · Nico Inosanto
 · Guillaume Jean-Mairet
 · Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
 · Silvan Kaeser
 · Peter Keller
 · Dominique Kerber
 · Philip Kraft
 · Daniel Lanz
 · Eugen Lenz
 · Max Lenz
 · Jean-Benoît Lévy
 · Sylvestre Lucia
 · Bruno Maag
 · Tom Marti
 · Alex Meier
 · Hans Eduard Meier
 · Silvio Meier
 · Christian Mengelt
 · Lucia Mercedes
 · Max Miedinger
 · Alexey Molotkov
 · Martin Moor
 · Stephan Müller
 · Emil A. Neukomm
 · Yasin Oezyurt
 · Michael Parson
 · Fidel Peugeot
 · Raphael Picard
 · Erwin Poell
 · Michael Reichen
 · Christian Reichenbach
 · Emil Ruder
 · Marc Rudin
 · Filippo Salmina
 · Brigitte Schuster
 · Beat Stamm
 · Nina Stössinger
 · Jakob Straub
 · Christian Thalmann
 · Rosemarie Tissi
 · Yasemin Varlik
 · Wolfgang Weingart
 · Fabian Widmer
 · Cornel Windlin
 · Jérome Winter
 · Nico Yang
 · Mathias Zimmermann

Related Links

 · Luc Devroye: The font scene in Switzerland
 · U&lc: The Road to Basel by Helmut Schmid (about Emil Ruder), book review by Paul Shaw
 · CIA World Factbook: Switzerland
 · Ethnologue: Languages of Switzerland
 · BBC Country profile: Switzerland