Karl-Heinz Lange studied at Burg Giebichenstein and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. He was an teacher in typography, graphic and type design; he designed books and corporate designs and was one of the important type designers at Typoart Dresden (former GDR).

Together with Ole Schaefer he reworked and extended his most important text typefaces to become the Karl-Heinz Lange Collection released at primetype: PTL Minimala, Superla and Publicala.