Typographer Jan Tschichold (2 April 1902 Leipzig, Germany - 11 August 1974 Locarno, Switzerland) was confident of his own importance. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, he wrote his own tribute in the third person. It began: "Two men stand out as the most powerful influences on 20th-century typography: Stanley Morison, who died in 1967, and Jan Tschichold." Morison is now largely hidden in history. Tschichold’s work, however, has recently come to fresh prominence. He is most remembered in Britain for his refashioning of Penguin paperbacks, with their famous, horizontally banded covers--orange for fiction, green for crime, blue for biography. When the Bauhaus opened its doors for a public exhibition in 1923, in the catalogue - itself a
