Xanti typewriter is based on the historic Olivetti logo from the mid-1930s, designed by Bauhaus master Xanti Schawinsky. A pioneer of what later became known as the Swiss Style, he created simple, visually striking motifs that show the subject at hand. Due to political and anti-Semitic hostility, Schawinsky left Magdeburg and moved to Italy, where he resumed painting in Rapallo. In Milan he worked for Studio Boggeri, the newly founded state-of-the-art advertising studio. He created outstanding posters and product designs for Motta, Illy coffee and Cinzano. At Olivetti he co-designed a new professional typewriter, the Olivetti Studio 42. Schawinsky was also a consultant for Olivetti's new headquarters. Schawinsky was a close friend of Herbert Bayer and Marcel Breuer and was godfather to Julia Bayer, the daughter of Herbert and Irene Bayer, born in 1929. In his typographic approach, we can therefore clearly see the influence of Bauhaus masters such as Herbert Bayer, Kurt Schwitters and Jan Tschichold. In particular, between 1925 and 1930, Bayer designed a geometric sans-serif proposal for a universal typeface, which existed only as a sketch and was never cast in real type. Xanti is a monospaced typeface that contains approximately 600 glyphs, covering all Western and Eastern Latin alphabets. Xanti is also a variable typeface, with weights ranging from light to bold and corresponding italics. Available from the c-a-s-t foundry (www.c-a-s-t.com)