table of contents: 1. biography 2. universal type 3. Victory Type's Bayer showcase       a. signage, sans b. typefaces, cont. 4. links 5. bibliography      In 1925, Gropius commissioned Bayer to design a typeface for all Bauhaus communiqués and Bayer excitedly undertook this task.  He took advantage of his views of modern typography to create an "idealist typeface."  The result was "universal" - a rather simple geometric sans-serif font.  It utilized simple curves and has other unadorned attributes. This sample of Bayer's universal typeface was set in Bayer Press, an in-house font developed by Victory Type based on Bayer's narrow face bold version of universal, designed in 1925.  Presently, a geometrically perfect and historically accurate remake of universal is in development by Noah Rothschild.   More on this as it happens