This work is based upon the Swiftâ„¢ font family was designed by Gerard Unger and released by the German firm Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH in 1987 after a three year design period. The lines of the characters follow the sweeping motions of the similarly named bird; the typeface is presently available in twenty-four variants. Interenet: Gerard Unger Born at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1942. Studied graphic design, typography and type design from 1963"“'67 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He teaches as visiting professor at the University of Reading, UK. Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, and taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy till January 2007. From 2006 till 2012 he was Professor of Typography at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Free lance designer from 1972. He has designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logo's, corporate identities, annual reports and other objects, and many typefaces. In 1984, he received the H.N.Werkman-Prize, in '88 the Gravisie-Prize, in '91 the Maurits Enschedé-Prize and in 2009 the Sota-Award. In 2013 he obtained his phd at Leiden University, on the subject of Alverata, a contemporary type design with roots in the Romanesque period (±1000"“1200) and in early Europe. He wrote articles for the trade press and, for example, for Typography Papers. One of his books, Terwijl je leest, has been translated in Italian, English (While you are reading), German, Spanish and Korean. He lectures frequently about type design and related subjects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.