About LAMY safari
A design system built from one injection-moulded object: the LAMY safari, drawn by Wolfgang Fabian in 1980 as a DM 18 school pen. The page is a white catalogue sweep, and safari yellow does almost all of the colour work against it.
Layouts behave like product sheets. One form sits off-centre, thin leader lines point to labelled parts, and colourway grids repeat the same shape while only the colour changes. Type is a plain geometric sans set tight and mostly in lower case.
- Origin
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Era
- 1980 launched (LAMY 2000 lineage from 1966); continuous production, current catalogue visual ~2015–2024
- Key figures
- Wolfgang Fabian · Bernt Spiegel · Gerd A. Müller · C. Josef Lamy
- Movements
- Bauhaus functionalism · Ulm-school rationalism · Braun-era German industrial design
LAMY safari design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
JostHeadings
Hanken GroteskBody
ArchivoMono
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