Lukas Schneider

Lukas Schneider has published typefaces with a number of prestigious type foundries and has been commissioned to develop custom fonts for several design agencies. He studied graphic design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main, Germany and holds a Master’s degree in type design from The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is also an alumnus of the Plantin Institute, Antwerp, Belgium where he achieved the highest distinction for his diploma on the Expert class Type Design under the tutelage of Frank E. Blokland.

In 2015, Blokland and Schneider worked in collaboration, combining their extensive knowledge of Renaissance foundry production and digital capabilities to produce a new spacing system comprised of two software tools for the auto-spacing of fonts in editors Glyphs App and RoboFont.