František Štorm is a Czech typographer of international acclaim, a musician

Musician

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, artist

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, teacher

Teacher

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 and author

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. His book Eseje o typografii (Essays on Typography) was nominated for the Magnesia Litera

Magnesia Litera

Magnesia Litera is an annual book award held in the Czech Republic since 2002. The prize covers all literary genres in eight genre categories: prose, poetry, children’s book , non-fiction, essay/journalism , translation, publishing achievement, book debut, and the main prize – one of the genre...

 Award (2009).

Štorm studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

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, graduating in 1991 and immediately becoming assistant to Jan Solpera at the Studio of Typography. Later, in 2003, Štorm became head of the Studio and remained in the position until 2008.
In 1993, Štorm founded his Storm Type Founry, a small type foundry

Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...

 for his own work. So far, Štorm has produced more than sixty font families.
Štorm is, outside the area of typography

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...

, probably best known as the singer/guitarist

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 of the legendary black metal

Black metal

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 band Master's Hammer

Master's Hammer

Master's Hammer are a black metal band from the Czech Republic. They were founded in 1987 and produced several demos, before releasing their debut album Ritual in 1990...

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