Heidrich Sans

In 2017, I worked on the Bona Nova research project to digitize and expand the Bona typeface designed by Andrzej Heidrich in 1971. The project was developed with further scripts and, in the meantime, together with Leszek Bielski and Andrzej Heidrich while working on a identity for the Polish Senate, we created several characters for a logotype based on Bona Nova in a sans serif version. After the death of Andrzej Heidrich and Leszek Bielski, I completely lost heart for developing the whole project. However, the idea of developing a Sans version inspired, on the one hand, by sketches for Bona and, on the other, by the works of Andrzej Heidrich, which Leszek Bielski and I collected during our research. Finally, after several years of work, Heidrich Sans was created – an elegant sans-serif typeface which explores the typographic heritage left by one of the most eminent contemporary graphic designers.