List of type designers
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A type designer, sometimes mistakenly called a typographer, is a person who designs typeface
s. Some type designers are employed by type foundries, or operate them. Others work independently. A partial list of type designers follows by country, with a signature typeface or two for significant designers. Schools of type design sometimes developed in specific western nations, but type design generally has not been defined by nationality.
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
s. Some type designers are employed by type foundries, or operate them. Others work independently. A partial list of type designers follows by country, with a signature typeface or two for significant designers. Schools of type design sometimes developed in specific western nations, but type design generally has not been defined by nationality.
Colombia
- Manuel Corradine
- Carlos Fabián Camargo
- Viviana Monsalve
- César Puertas
Canada
- Gerald GiampaGerald GiampaGerald Giampa was a printer, typographer and author. When he was born, his parents lived in a tent in Duncan, British Columbia.His interest in printing books came from his grandfather who liked to read...
- Ray LarabieRay LarabieRay Larabie is a designer of computer TrueType and OpenType fonts. Beginning in 1996, Larabie distributed his designs over the internet as freeware, operating as his own independent type foundry LarabieFonts....
- Jim RimmerJim RimmerJim Rimmer was a Canadian graphic designer, letterpress printer, proprietor of the Pie Tree Press and is especially notable as a designer of typefaces.Rimmer was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada...
- Nick ShinnNick ShinnNick Shinn is a typeface designer. He attended school at Leeds Polytechnic where he earned a Dip. AD in Fine Art....
(Brown, FF Fontesque, Walburn)
Czechia
- Oldřich Menhart, (Ceska Unciala)
- František ŠtormFrantišek ŠtormFrantišek Štorm is a Czech typographer of international acclaim, a musician, artist, teacher and author. His book Eseje o typografii was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Award ....
- Jan Rambousek, (Brno Z)
- Josef Týfa
France
- Antoine Augereau
- George AuriolGeorge AuriolGeorge Auriol, born Jean-Georges Huyot , was a French poet, songwriter, graphic designer, type designer, and Art Nouveau artist...
, (AuriolAuriol (typeface)Auriol is a display typeface created by George Auriol in 1901 for the Deberny & Peignot foundry in Paris.George Auriol has been called the "quintessential Art Nouveau designer" according to Steven Heller and Louise Fili. The letterforms he designed for his namesake typeface originated in...
) - Alexandre de Berny
- Pierre BézierPierre BézierPierre Étienne Bézier was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modeling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in CAD/CAM systems...
- Albert Boton
- Louis BrailleLouis BrailleLouis Braille was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired...
- Camut
- Adolphe Mouron CassandreAdolphe Mouron CassandreAdolphe Mouron Cassandre was a Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.-Early Life and Career:...
(PeignotPeignotPeignot is constructed sans-serif display typeface, designed by A. M. Cassandre in 1937. It was commissioned by the French foundry Deberny & Peignot. The typeface is notable for not having a traditional lowercase, but in its place a "multi-case" combining traditional lowercase and small capital...
, 1937) - Charles Nicolas Cochin
- Simon de ColinesSimon de ColinesSimon de Colines , a Parisian printer, one of the first printer type of the French Renaissance. He was active in Paris between 1520 and 1546. Colines used elegant roman and italic types and a Greek type, with accents, that was superior to its predecessors...
- Jean-Renaud Cuaz
- Firmin DidotFirmin DidotFirmin Didot was a French printer, engraver, and type founder. He invented the word "stereotype", which in printing refers to the metal printing plate created for the actual printing of pages , and used the process extensively, revolutionizing the book trade by his cheap editions...
- François Didot
- François-Ambroise Didot
- Henri Didot
- Pierre Didot
- Xavier DupréXavier DupréXavier Dupré is a typeface designer born in Aubenas , France in 1977. Dupré is notable for the recognition he has received for his typeface designs in the 2000s....
- Roger ExcoffonRoger ExcoffonRoger Excoffon , French typeface designer and graphic designer.Excoffon was born in Marseilles, studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and after, moved to Paris to apprentice in a print shop. In 1947 he formed his own advertising agency and concurrently became design director of a small...
- François Fournier
- Jean Claude Fournier
- Pierre Simon Fournier le jeune
- Claude GaramondClaude GaramondClaude Garamond was a French publisher from Paris. He was one of the leading type designers of his time, and is credited with the introduction of the apostrophe, the accent and the cedilla to the French language. Several contemporary typefaces, including those currently known as Garamond, Granjon,...
(GaramondGaramondGaramond is the name given to a group of old-style serif typefaces named after the punch-cutter Claude Garamond . Most of the Garamond faces are more closely related to the work of a later punch-cutter, Jean Jannon...
) - Raymond Gid
- Robert Granjon
- Hector GuimardHector GuimardHector Guimard was an architect, who is now the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
- François Guyot
- Pierre Haultin
- Franck Jalleau
- Jean Jannon
- Nicolas JensonNicolas JensonNicolas Jenson was a French engraver, pioneer printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice. Jenson acted as Master of the French Royal Mint at Tours, and is accredited with being the creator of the first model roman type...
- Molé-le-Jeune
- Charles Peignot
- Gustave Peignot
- Louis PerrinLouis PerrinLouis Perrin PC was an Irish barrister, politician and judge.-Early life:Perrin was born in Waterford, the son of was Jean Baptiste Perrin ....
- Christophe PlantinChristophe PlantinChristophe Plantin was an influential Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher.-Life:...
- Jean-François PorchezJean-François PorchezJean François Porchez is a French type designer. He was president of ATypI , the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. He is probably best-known for releasing the new typefaces for Le Monde, the French evening newspaper in 1994...
- Charles Plumet
- Thierry Puyfoulhoux
- Jacques SabonJacques SabonJacques Sabon was a French typefounder. He worked with Christian Egenolff in Frankfurt in 1555 and Christophe Plantin of Antwerp in 1565. He is associated with the forms of roman type which were being developed by Claude Garamond and others...
- Wynkyn de WordeWynkyn de WordeWynkyn de Worde was a printer and publisher in London known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognized as the first to popularize the products of the printing press in England....
- Christophe Féray
Germany
- Otto ArpkeOtto ArpkeOtto Arpke was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and teacher at the Kunst- und Gewerbeschule in Mainz. Arpke was famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line. He designed one type face, Arpke Antiqua which is available...
(Taiko) - Johann Christian BauerJohann Christian BauerJohann Christian Bauer was a German type designer, punchcutter, and founder of the Bauer Type Foundry. Bauer was born in Hanau and began working as a punch-cutter in 1827. He ran a type foundry in Frankfurt am Main, Germany for three years with Christian Nies, before founding the Bauersche...
(Fette FrakturFette FrakturFette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer in 1850. The C.E. Weber Foundry published a version in 1875, and the D Stempel AG foundry published the version shown at right in 1908.Fette Fraktur is based on the...
) - Konrad Friedrich BauerKonrad Friedrich BauerKonrad Friedrich Bauer was a German type designer who, though not related to founder Johann Christian Bauer, was head of the art department for the Bauer Type Foundry from 1928 until his retirement in 1968. Bauer’s father was a type founder in Altona and Bauer studied art and the history of...
(Fortune) - Walter BaumWalter BaumWalter Baum was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher. Baum trained as a typesetter from 1935 to 1939, he resumed his studies after the war before becoming head of the graphics studio at the Bauer Type Foundry in 1948...
(Fortune) - Lucian BernhardLucian BernhardLucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn to a Jewish family, but changed in 1905 to his more commonly known pseudonym...
(Bernhard GothicBernhard GothicBernhard Gothic is a family of geometric sans serif typeface designed by Lucian Bernhard in 1929 for the American Type Founders . Five variations by Bernhard were introduced over two years:* Bernhard Gothic Light... - Peter BehrensPeter BehrensPeter Behrens was a German architect and designer. He was important for the modernist movement, as several of the movements leading names worked for him when they were young.-Biography:Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882...
(Bahrens-Schrift) - Georg BelweGeorg BelweGeorg Belwe was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher. Belwe studied and later taught at the Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in his native Berlin. In 1900, with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, he founded Steglitzer Werkstadt, a private press...
(Belwe Roman) - Jakob ErbarJakob ErbarJakob Erbar was a German professor of graphic design and type designer. Trained as a typesetter for the Dumont-Schauberg Printing Works, before studying under Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons. Erbar went on to teach in 1908 at the Städtischen Berufsschule and from 1919 to his death at the...
(ErbarErbar (typeface)In typography, Erbar or Erbar-Grotesk was the first geometric sans-serif typeface ever created. Designer Jakob Erbar's aim was to design a printing type which would be free of all individual characteristics, possess thoroughly legible letter forms, and be a purely typographic creation...
, Candida, Feder Grotesk, Koloss) - Johann Michael Fleischman (Fleischman)
- Johann Gutenberg
- Karlgeorg HoeferKarlgeorg HoeferKarlgeorg Hoefer was a German calligrapher and typographer.Hoefer was born in Schlesisch-Drehnow in Silesia. He taught typography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach...
(Elegance, Permanent) - Heinrich Jost (Aeterna)
- Erhard Kaiser (DTL Fleischmann, DTL Prokyon)
- Rudolf KochRudolf Kochthumb|250px|[[Fraktur]] fonts by Rudolf KochRudolf Koch was a leading German calligrapher, typographic artist and teacher, born in Nuremberg. He was primarily a calligrapher with the Gebr. Klingspor foundry. He created several typefaces, in both fraktur and roman styles...
(Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch) - Helmut Matheis (Charme, Compliment, Mathies Mobil, Primadonna, Slogan)
- Friedrich Poppl (Poppl-Pontifex, 1974; Laudatio, 1982)
- Paul RennerPaul RennerPaul Renner was a typeface designer, most notably of Futura. He was born in Wernigerode, Germany and died in Hödingen....
(FuturaFutura (typeface)In typography, Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–1933...
, 1927) - Johannes Schweitzer (Dominante)
- K. Sommer (Dynamo)
- Erik SpiekermannErik SpiekermannErik Spiekermann is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen....
(FF MetaFF MetaFF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann originally as a commission for the Deutsche Bundespost , but later released by Spiekermann himself in 1991 through his FontFont library...
, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit and others) - Herbert Thannhaeuser (AdastraAdastraAdastra can refer to:*Adastra Minerals, a British mining company*Adastra designed in 1928 by Herbert Thannhaeuser of D. Stempel AG*Johnson RHJ-6 Adastra, glider...
) - Georg Trump (Trump Mediaeval)
- Jan TschicholdJan TschicholdJan Tschichold was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer.-Life:Tschichold was the son of a provincial signwriter, and he was trained in calligraphy...
(Sabon) - Kurt Weidemann (ITC Weidemann, Biblica, Corporate ASE)
- Hans WagnerHans WagnerHans Wagner is a West German bobsledder who competed in the late 1970s. He won the gold medal in the four-man event at the 1979 FIBT World Championships in Königssee....
(Welt, Wolfram) - Carlos WinkowCarlos WinkowCarl Winckow known in Spain where he spent most of his working life as Carlos Winkow was a German type designer who worked primarily for the Naçional Typefoundry.-Fonts Designed by Carlos Winkow :...
designer for the Nacional TypefoundryNacional TypefoundryFundicion Tipográfica Nacional or the Nacional Typefoundry was for many years the leading type foundry of Spain. It was founded in Madrid in 1915 and functioned there until bought out by Fundicion Tipográfica Neufville of Barcelona in 1971...
of Madrid - Berthold WolpeBerthold WolpeBerthold Ludwig Wolpe OBE was a German typeface designer and teacher.Wolpe was born in Offenbach, Germany. Trained as a calligrapher with Rudolf Koch at the Offenbach Workshops, as well as a silversmith. The dual knowledge of these crafts informed his thinking about letter design...
(Albertus) - Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (DiotimaDiotimaDiotima may refer to:*Diotima of Mantinea, an ancient female philosopher and tutor of Socrates*423 Diotima, an asteroid*Diotima , a 2011 album by experimental black metal band Krallice...
, AlcuinAlcuinAlcuin of York or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York...
) - Hermann ZapfHermann ZapfHermann Zapf is a German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse....
(PalatinoPalatinoPalatino is the name of a large typeface family that began as an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf initially released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry.In 1999, Zapf revised Palatino for Linotype and Microsoft, called Palatino Linotype...
, OptimaOptimaOptima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf between 1952 and 1955 for the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, Germany.-Characteristics:...
, Zapf Chancery, Zapf DingbatsZapf DingbatsZapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1978 and licensed by International Typeface Corporation....
, ZapfinoZapfinoZapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype by typeface designer Hermann Zapf in 1998. It is based on an alphabet Zapf originally penned in 1944...
)
India
- R K JoshiR K JoshiProfessor R K Joshi was an academic type designer and calligrapher. He designed the core Indian fonts used in Microsoft Windows.-Early life:...
(Indic Scripts for Microsoft) - S K Mohanty(Indic Scripts Type Design)S. K. MohantyOne of the most recognizable faces in the Indian scripts Digital Type Design and Calligraphy is S.K. Mohanty, a renowned Type Designer and Calligrapher, who made indelible imprint in his chosen field. Over a period of two decades, his relentless search for perfection placed him on top slot. The...
- Hashim P M (25 Typeface designs in Malayalam, 1 in Roman and 5 Symbol typefaces)
- Satya Rajpurohit (Fedra Hindi, 2009; Kohinoor Devanagari, 2010; Kohinoor Latin, 2010; Kohinoor Tamil, 2010)
Italy
- Raffaello BertieriRaffaello BertieriRaffaello Bertieri was a publisher, graphic designer, and type designer from Florence, Italy. Bertieri began working as a printer's apprentice in 1886 and by 1902 was an editor in Milan...
(Inkunabula, Paganini) - Giambattista BodoniGiambattista BodoniGiambattista Bodoni was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute remembered for designing a family of different typefaces called Bodoni....
(BodoniBodoni-Cold Type versions:As it had been a standard type for many years, Bodoni was widely available in cold type. Alphatype, Autologic, Berthold, Compugraphic, Dymo, Harris, Mergenthaler, MGD Graphic Systems, and Varityper, Hell AG, Monotype, all sold the face under the name ‘’Bodoni, while Graphic...
) - Alessandro ButtiAlessandro ButtiAlessandro Butti was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin where he was art director of the Nebiolo type foundry. He also taught at the Scuola Vigliani-Paravia. Microgramma is his most famous face...
(Microgramma, Rondine) - Francesco GriffoFrancesco GriffoFrancesco Griffo , also called Francesco da Bologna, was a fifteenth-century Venetian punchcutter. He worked for Aldus Manutius, designing that printer's more important typefaces, including the first italic type...
(Bembo, Poliphilus) - Aldus ManutiusAldus ManutiusAldus Pius Manutius , the Latinised name of Aldo Manuzio —sometimes called Aldus Manutius, the Elder to distinguish him from his grandson, Aldus Manutius, the Younger—was an Italian humanist who became a printer and publisher when he founded the Aldine Press at Venice.His publishing legacy includes...
- Giulio da Milano (Neon, Razionale, Veltro)
- Aldo NovareseAldo NovareseAldo Novarese was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin where he produced an impressive number of unique designs.-Training and Career:...
(Novarese, Eurostile, Fenice, Recta, Microgramma, Stop, Expert, Magister, Garaldus, Normandia, Recta, Estro, ...) - Piero De Macchi (Pancarré, Nomina, Norberto, Iveco, Paloma, ...)
- Giangiorgio Fuga (GFT Venexiano, GFT Murrina, GFT Murano Glass, GFT Lespresso Sans, GFT Yamaha Motors, ...)
Netherlands
- Evert BloemsmaEvert BloemsmaEvert Bloemsma was a Dutch type designer and graphic designer. In 1981 he graduated from the Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem. He taught typography at the Breda academy AKV St...
(FF Balance, FF Cocon, FF Avance, FF Legato) - Erik van Blokland (FF Beowolf, FF Erikrighthand, FF Trixie, FF Kosmik, FF Zapata)
- Petr van Blokland (Proforma, Productus)
- Jos Buivenga (Anivers, Calluna, Delicious, Fontin, Museo, Tallys)
- Wim CrouwelWim CrouwelWillem Hendrik Crouwel is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer.Between 1947 and 1949 he studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands...
(Catalogue, FodorFodor (typeface)Fodor is a geometrical typeface designed by Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel, around 1973.- History :Fodor was designed for the covers of the magazine published by Museum Fodor in Amsterdam. The main text on the covers were set with a electric typewriter, and the monospaced typeface that it used...
, GridnikGridnik (typeface)Gridnik is a geometrical typeface designed by Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel, in 1974. It is the digital version of the typewriter typeface Olivetti Politene.-History:...
, New AlphabetNew Alphabet (typeface)-History:New Alphabet is a personal, experimental project of Crouwel. The typeface embraces the limitations of the cathode ray tube technology used by early data display screens and phototypesetting equipment and thus only contains horizontal and vertical strokes. Conventional typefaces can suffer...
, Stedelijk) - Christoffel van Dijck (Monotype Van Dijck, Hollander and DTL Elzevir are based on his designs)
- Bram de DoesBram de DoesBram de Does is a graphic and type designer. De Does studied at the Amsterdamse Grafische School in the 1950s. De Does came into contact with the printing trade at an early age, as his father had a printing office in the east of Amsterdam. From 1958 to 1988 he worked, with several intervals, at...
(TEFF TrinitéTrinité (typeface)Trinité is a serif typeface designed by Dutch type designer Bram de Does. He worked on the design from 1979 to 1982. In 1991, he received the H.N. Werkmanprize for the design.-History:...
, TEFF LexiconLexicon (typeface)Lexicon is a serif typeface designed by Dutch type designer Bram de Does between the years 1989 and 1992. The typeface was specially designed for use at very small point sizes in Van Dale's Dictionary of the Dutch Language.-History:...
) - Gerben Dollen (Actium)
- Lucas de Groot (ThesisThesis fontsThesis is a large typeface family designed by Lucas de Groot. The typefaces were designed between 1994 and 1999 to provide a modern humanist corporate font...
, TheAntiqua, Corpid, CalibriCalibriCalibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection.In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad...
) - Sem Hartz (Monotype Juliana)
- Jan van KrimpenJan van KrimpenJan van Krimpen was a Dutch typographer and type designer. He worked for the printing house Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé.- Type designs :...
(Spectrum, Romanée, Romulus, Haarlemmer, Lutetia, Cancellaresca Bastarda) - Martin MajoorMartin MajoorMartin Majoor is a Dutch typedesigner and graphic designer.-Biography:Martin Majoor has been designing type since the mid-1980s. During his study at the School of Fine Art in Arnhem , he shortly worked in a student placement at URW in Hamburg. It was there that he was able to work with the first...
(FF ScalaFF ScalaFF Scala is an old style, humanist, serif typeface designed by Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor in 1990 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The FF Scala font family was named for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan...
, FF Scala SansFF Scala SansFF Scala Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed in by Dutch designer Martin Majoor in 1993 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands...
, Telefont, FF Seria, FF Seria Sans, FF Nexus Serif, FF Nexus Sans, FF Nexus Mix) - Christoph Noordzij (TEFF Collis)
- Gerrit NoordzijGerrit NoordzijGerrit Noordzij is a Dutch typographer, typeface designer, and author.-Career:Gerrit Noordzij began his career as a graphic designer and as a bookbinder's apprentice. Since then he has designed and authored dozens of books on typography and design. He also makes drawings, wood engravings, copper...
(TEFF Burgundica, TEFF Ruse) - S.H. de RoosS.H. de RoosSjoerd Hendrik de Roos , better known as S.H. de Roos, was a Dutch type designer, book cover designer and artist.De Roos was born in Drachten to a cobbler, but moved to Amsterdam at an early age...
(aka Sjoerd de Roos (Hollandsche Mediæval, Grotius, Egmont, Libria, De Roos, Zilvertype) - Artur Schmal (OT Parry, OT Parry Grotesque)
- Fred SmeijersFred SmeijersFred Smeijers is a Dutch graphic, type designer and writer. He studied at the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem in the early 1980s.- Work :...
(OurType Arnhem, Fresco, Sansa, DTL Nobel, TEFF Renard, FF Quadraat) - Gerard UngerGerard UngerGerard Unger is a graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963-67, and subsequently worked at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975, he established himself as an independent developer...
(Allianz, Amerigo, ANWB fonts, DTL Argo, Big Vesta, Capitoleum, Capitoleum News, Coranto, Decoder, Delftse Poort, Demos, Flora, Gulliver, Hollander, Markeur, M.O.L., Oranda, DTL Paradox, Praxis, Swift, Swift 2.0, Vesta) - Albert-Jan PoolAlbert-Jan PoolAlbert-Jan Pool is a Dutch professional type designer. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague....
(FF DINFF DINFF DIN is a realist sans-serif typeface designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool, based on DIN-Mittelschrift. DIN is an acronym for Deutsches Institut für Normung ....
, URW Imperial, URW Linear, Mauritius I, FF OCR-F, Jet Set Sans, DTL HEIN GAS, Regenbogen Bold)
Portugal
- Mário Feliciano (Morgan, Flama, Rongel, Merlo, Stella...)
- Dino dos Santos (Andrade, Apud, Dobra, Glosa, Leitura, Prelo, Velino,...)
- Ricardo Santos (Van, Atlantica, Focus, Lab, Lisboa,...)
- Rui Abreu (Foral, Catacumba, Orbe...)
- Hugo D'Alte (Rolland)
- Miguel Sousa (Calouste)
- Rúben Dias (Oban)
- Olinda Martins (Bazar)
Sweden
- Akke KumlienAkke KumlienAkke Kumlien , Swedish calligrapher, typographer, graphic designer, type designer, artist etc.He is the author of the book Bokstav och ande and of Kunstneren og bokkunsten....
(Kumlien Medieval) - Karl-Erik ForsbergKarl-Erik ForsbergKarl-Erik Forsberg , Swedish calligrapher, typographer, graphic designer, type designer and artist. His brother Vidar Forsbergand was also a designer. His wife was Geith Forsberg....
(Berling, Lunda, Carolus, Ericus, Gustavus, Polhem, Carolina Script, Aros Antiqua, and more) - Bo BerndalBo BerndalBo Berndal is a retired Swedish compositor and typographer. He is co-owner of BIGG and Hålet .-Career:...
(Sispos and Sisneg. Old Swedish standard (SIS 030011, 1973) for public road signs, displays, etc.) - Franko LuinFranko LuinFranko Luin was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967...
Switzerland
- Adrian FrutigerAdrian FrutigerAdrian Frutiger is one of the prominent typeface designers of the 20th century, who continues to influence the direction of digital typography in the 21st century; he is best known for creating the typefaces Univers and Frutiger.-Early life:Adrian Frutiger was born in Unterseen, Canton of Bern, as...
(FrutigerFrutigerFrutiger is a series of typefaces named after its designer, Adrian Frutiger. Initially available as a sans serif, it was later expanded to include ornamental and serif typefaces.-Distinctive characteristics:Characteristics of this typeface are:...
, UniversUniversUnivers is the name of a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1954.Originally conceived and released by Deberny & Peignot in 1957, the type library was acquired in 1972 by Haas. Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei was later folded into the D...
) - Max Caflisch (Columna)
- Max MiedingerMax MiedingerMax Miedinger was a Swiss typeface designer. He was famous for creating Helvetica in 1957...
(HelveticaHelveticaHelvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann.-Visual distinctive characteristics:Characteristics of this typeface are:lower case:square dot over the letter i....
) - Christian Mengelt (Sinova)
United Kingdom
- Charles Robert AshbeeCharles Robert AshbeeCharles Robert Ashbee was an English designer and entrepreneur who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement that took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris.-Early life:He was the son of businessman and erotic...
(Endevour, Prayer Book) - Richard AustinRichard Austin (punchcutter)Richard Austin was an English punchcutter. He was the original cutter of typefaces Bell, Scotch Roman, and Porson. Born in London, he studied wood engraving under Thomas Berwick before joining John Bell's British Letter Foundry in 1788 as a punch-cutter, where he worked until the foundry closed...
(BelBell (Monotype)Bell is a Scotch Roman typeface designed in 1788 by Richard Austin. After a short initial period of popularity, the face fell until disuse until it was revived in the 1930s, after which it enjoyed an enduring acceptance as a text face.-Visual Distinctive Characteristics:Characteristics of this...
, PorsonPorson (typeface)Porson is a typeface in the Greek alphabet based on the handwriting of the English classicist Richard Porson, who, as his biographer writes, "excelled ... in writing with neatness and beauty" and "wrote notes on the margins of books with such studied accuracy that they rivalled print".The face was...
) - Phil BainesPhil BainesPaul Baines was a footballer who played in The Football League for Stoke City. He made two appearance for Stoke.-References:...
(Can You?, Vere Dignum) - Paul BarnesPaul Barnes (designer)Paul Barnes is a graphic design and typographer. He has designed several new typefaces.-Career:After an education at the University of Reading, in 1992 he emigrated to the United States to work with Roger Black. In 1995 he left Roger Black and began work as a freelance designer in London...
(Guardian Egyptian, with Christian Schwartz, 2005) - Jonathan BarnbrookJonathan BarnbrookJonathan Barnbrook , is a British graphic designer and typographer. He trained at Central St Martin's and at the Royal College of Art .- Work :...
(Mason, Exocet, 1996 released through Emigre fonts, Nylon, Prototype, Bastarda) - John BaskervilleJohn BaskervilleJohn Baskerville was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.-Life:...
- Neville BrodyNeville BrodyNeville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director.Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Printing and Hornsey College of Art, and is known for his work on The Face magazine and Arena magazine , as well as for designing record covers for artists such as...
(Arcadia, 1986, Blur, Auto-Suggestion)) - Christopher Burke (Pragma)
- Matthew CarterMatthew CarterMatthew Carter is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type...
(Snell Roundhand, 1965; Shelley Script, 1972; Galliard, 1978; SkiaSkia- External links :*...
, Georgia, Mantinia, all 1993; VerdanaVerdanaVerdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Thomas Rickner, then at Monotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft's typography group...
, 1996; TahomaTahoma (typeface)Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for the Microsoft Corporation in 1994 with initial distribution along with Verdana for Windows 95....
, 1999) - William CaslonWilliam CaslonWilliam Caslon , also known as William Caslon I, was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, and in 1716 started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and as a bookbinder's tool cutter...
(CaslonCaslonCaslon refers to a number of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I , and various revivals thereof.Caslon shares the irregularity characteristic of Dutch Baroque types. It is characterized by short ascenders and descenders, bracketed serifs, moderately-high contrast, robust texture, and...
) - Roy Cole (Lina, 2004)
- Timothy Donaldson (HumanaHumanaHumana Inc. , founded in 1961 in Louisville, Kentucky, is a Fortune 100 company that markets and administers health insurance. With a customer base of over 11.5 million in the United States, the company is the largest Fortune 100 company headquartered in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and has a...
, PostinoPostinoPostino is an application built for the iPhone[1] and the Facebook[2] social network, which allows users to create custom physical postcards and to send them worldwide. The user takes a new photo with the camera , writes a message and a signature, pick a destination address, and send the postcard...
) - Phil Garnham (FS Rufus FS Conrad FS Sally) Fontsmith
- Eric GillEric GillArthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...
(Gill SansGill SansGill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill.The original design appeared in 1926 when Douglas Cleverdon opened a bookshop in his home town of Bristol, where Eric Gill painted the fascia over the window in sans-serif capitals that would later be known as Gill Sans...
, Perpetua, both 1928; Joanna, 1937) - Gareth Hague (August, Elephant, Jackdaw, Metsys, Sister) Alias
- Robert HarlingRobert Harling (typographer)Robert Henry Harling was a British typographer, designer, journalist and novelist who lived to the age of 98.-Books and other work:* The Letterforms and Type Designs of Eric Gill...
- Ashley Havinden (Ashley ScriptAshley ScriptAshley Script is a typeface developed by the British designer Ashley Havinden in 1955 for Monotype Corporation.Ashley Script is a brush script and is based on Havinden's own handwriting....
, 1955, Ashley Inline, 1993) - Justin Howes (Founder's Caslon, 1998)
- Rian HughesRian HughesRian Hughes is a British graphic designer, illustrator and comics artist, noted for his work on 2000AD, where he illustrated Robo-Hunter, Tales from Beyond Science, Really and Truly and Dan Dare, among others...
(Blackcurrant, Custard and numerous others released through Device) - Edward JohnstonEdward JohnstonEdward Johnston, CBE was a British-Uruguayan craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the a father of modern calligraphy, in the form of the broad edged pen as a writing tool, a particular form of calligraphy....
(JohnstonJohnston (typeface)Johnston is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by and named after Edward Johnston. It is well known for its use by Transport for London....
, 1916) - Khosro Khosrovani (GrafEast Farsi & Arabic Typefaces) since 1982
- Marcus Leis Allion (Priori and Priori Acute (Emigre) Hopeless Diamond, Regime, (Virus) Pleasure, Pukka, Puritan) UNDT Type Design
- Seb LesterSeb LesterSeb Lester, also Sebastian Lester, is a London-based type designer, typographic illustrator and artist. Lester is notable for prominent type designs, book cover designs and calligraphic prints....
(Scene, Soho, Neo Sans and Neo Tech) - Bruno Maag (Tesco, Tottenham Hotspur, Telewest, Urban Splash, BT, BMW, Vodafone) Dalton Maag Type Design
- Stanley MorisonStanley MorisonStanley Morison was an English typographer, designer and historian of printing.Born in Wanstead, Essex, Morison spent most of his childhood and early adult years at the family home in Fairfax Road, Harringay...
(Times New Roman) - Miles Newlyn (Ferox, Frank, Modena, Luvbug, Missionary (Emigre))
- Luke Prowse (Times Modern)
- David Quay (Coptek, Kade, Vegas) The Foundry
- Freda Sack (Ignatius, Proteus) The Foundry
- Darren Scott (Berliner, Mechanic Gothic, Aggregate, Rub On, Press On) Darren Scott Typographics & Truth Design
- Jason Smith (FS Kitty FS Clerkenwell FS Alvar FS Sophie FS Ingrid FS Albert) Fontsmith
- Jeremy Tankard (Corbel, Blue Island)
- Scot WilliamsScot WilliamsScot Williams , is an English actor, writer and producer for stage, film and television.As an actor, Williams made his film debut in the 1994 Iain Softley film Backbeat, in which he played the role of The Beatle's original drummer Pete Best...
(Archi, Typewriter) A2 Type - Walter TracyWalter TracyWalter Valentine Tracy RDI was an English typographer and writer and designer of books, magazines, and newspapers.- Biography :Walter Tracy was born in Islington, London and attended Shoreditch Secondary school. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to the large printing firm William Clowes as...
(Jubilee, Adsans, Telegraph Modern, 1969 Times Europa, 1972)
United States
- Jill BellJill BellJill Bell is a lettering artist, calligrapher and type designer.A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Bell is a graphic artist who creates custom lettering, logotypes, titles, fonts and handwriting for advertising, entertainment, packaging, and publishing. Before establishing herself as a freelance...
(Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno, Swank) - Linn Boyd BentonLinn Boyd BentonLinn Boyd Benton was an American typeface designer and inventor who invented the Benton Pantograph, an engraving machine which was capable not only of scaling a single font design pattern to a variety of sizes, but could also condense, extend, and slant the design...
(Century) - Morris Fuller BentonMorris Fuller BentonMorris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...
(America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 total typefaces, including: Franklin GothicFranklin GothicFranklin Gothic and its related faces are realist sans-serif typefaces originated by Morris Fuller Benton in 1902. “Gothic” is an increasingly archaic term meaning sans-serif. Franklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. The typeface continues to maintain a...
, Century Schoolbook, News GothicNews GothicNews Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and released by the American Type Founders in 1908. The typeface was originally drawn in two lighter weights, a medium text weight using the title News Gothic, and a closely related light weight marketed under the name...
, Bank Gothic) - David Berlow (Charcoal, Bureau Grotesque)
- Lucian BernhardLucian BernhardLucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn to a Jewish family, but changed in 1905 to his more commonly known pseudonym...
(Bernhard GothicBernhard GothicBernhard Gothic is a family of geometric sans serif typeface designed by Lucian Bernhard in 1929 for the American Type Founders . Five variations by Bernhard were introduced over two years:* Bernhard Gothic Light...
, Bernhard ModernBernhard ModernBernhard Modern is an old style classification serif typeface designed by Lucian Bernhard in 1937 for the American Type Founders .Lucian Bernhard's Bernhard Modern typeface was the ATF's response to the many popular old style engraving faces of the early 20th century...
) - Charles BigelowCharles Bigelow (type designer)Charles A. Bigelow is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families...
and Kris HolmesKris HolmesKris Holmes is a type designer. She is with Charles Bigelow the co-creator of the Lucida font family.She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her MFA from UCLA Film School in Animation...
, partners in design (Lucida family) - Roger Black Digital Type Designer Industry Pioneer
- Joseph BlumenthalJoseph Blumenthal (printer)Joseph Blumenthal was an American printer, teacher, and designer of books and printing types. After working in the printing industry for some time, Blumenthal and A. G. Hoffman of the Marchbank Press founded the Spiral Press in 1926...
, (Spiral, Emerson) - Brian J. Bonislawsky
- Alfred R. Bosco (Romany)
- Philip Bouwsma
- William H. Bradley
- Mark van Bronkhorst (ITC Conduit, MVB Verdigris, MVB Embarcadero)
- Jackson BurkeJackson BurkeJackson Burke was an American type and book designer. After studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he succeeded C.H...
(Trade Gothic, 1948) - Leslie Cabarga
- Tom Carnase (Busorama, 1970)
- Jason Castle (Goudy Trajan, Carisma, Dionisio, Sonrisa)
- Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos (Alembic, Eidetic Neo, Faceplate Sans)
- Warren ChappellWarren ChappellWarren Chappell was an American illustrator, book and type designer, and author.-Education:...
, (Lydian seriesLydian (typeface)Lydian is a typeface designed by Warren Chappell for American Type Founders in 1938. While the stressed letter designs suggest a calligraphic style, this is considered a sans-serif font. It is available in bold, italic, and condensed, as well as a Cursive variant...
) - Thomas Maitland ClelandThomas Maitland ClelandThomas Maitland Cleland was an American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer.-Education and career:...
(Della RobbiaDella RobbiaDella Robbia may refer to:*Luca della Robbia , Italian sculptor*Andrea della Robbia , Italian sculptor, nephew of Luca*Giovanni della Robbia , son of Andrea*Girolamo della Robbia , son of Andrea...
) - Elizabeth Colwell (Colwell Handletter)
- Vincent ConnareVincent ConnareVincent Connare is a former Microsoft in-house font designer. Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans font, and the Trebuchet MS font, both of which ship as standard on current releases of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS...
(Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Magpie) - Oswald Bruce 'Oz' CooperOswald Bruce CooperOswald Bruce Cooper was an American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and teacher of these trades.-Early life and education:...
(Cooper BlackCooper BlackCooper Black is a heavily weighted, old style serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921 and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922. The typeface is drawn as an extra bold weight of Cooper Old Style. Though not based on a single historic model, Cooper Black...
, 1921) - Freeman Craw (Ad Lib, Craw Clarendon)
- Carl Crossgrove (Mundo Sans, Biome, Beorcana)
- Nick Curtis (ITC Beeswax)
- Rick CusickRick CusickRick Cusick is a lettering artist, calligrapher, type designer and book designer.He began his lettering career designing illuminated signs for Ad/Art, Inc. in his hometown of Stockton, California, followed by study at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles where lettering artist Mortimer...
(Nyx) - Joshua Darden
- Chuck Davis
- Whedon Davis (Franklin Gothic Condensed Italic)
- Sheila Levrant de BrettevilleSheila Levrant de BrettevilleSheila Levrant de Bretteville is a graphic designer, artist and educator whose work reflects her belief in the importance of feminist principles and user participation in graphic design...
- Chank DieselChank DieselChank Diesel, also known as Charles Andermack, is a contemporary type designer. He was born in Canada and raised in the U.S. state of Florida.-Biography:Chank was born Charles Anderson, but neighbors called him "Chanky," after Spanky from the Little Rascals...
- Devon DeLapp
- Matt Desmond (Stomper)
- Ernest F. Detterer (Eusebius)
- Peter Dombrezian (Dom Casual)
- Jeremy Dooley (Aviano)
- Michael DoretMichael DoretMichael Doret is an award-winning designer, lettering artist, and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. He has created logos, album covers, magazine covers and art for major brands in media, advertising and sports including the New York Knicks, MLB, Time Magazine, Playboy, Wired. TV Guide,...
(Metroscript, Deliscript, DeLuxe Gothic, Orion MD, PowerStation) - William Addison DwigginsWilliam Addison DwigginsWilliam Addison Dwiggins was a U.S. type designer, calligrapher, and book designer...
(36 completed typefaces including Electra, CaledoniaCaledonia (typeface)Caledonia is a transitional serif typeface designed by William Addison Dwiggins in 1938 for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.Dwiggins chose the name Caledonia, the Roman name for Scotland, to express the face's basis on the early nineteenth century Scotch Roman typeface however, though Dwiggins...
, Metro) - William E. Fink (Greenwich)
- Robert Foster (Pericles)
- Tobias Frere-JonesTobias Frere-JonesTobias Frere-Jones is a prolific type designer who works in New York City with fellow type designer Jonathan Hoefler at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, a type foundry in lower Manhattan...
(Interstate, Gotham, Reactor, plus numerous custom designs for publications including the Wall Street Journal, GQ, Esquire, NY Times Magazine) - Sidney GauntSidney GauntSidney Clyde Gaunt was an American typographer, and artist.Prolific producer of type designs while "shop artist" for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry...
(46 typefaces including Adstyle, Pencraft) - William S. GilliesWilliam S. GilliesWilliam S. Gillies was an American artist, letterer, and type designer working in New York City.Gillies is best remembered as an illustrator for the covers of several books including the Ken Holt Mysteries, Nancy Drew Mysteries, and The Hardy Boys Mysteries. He also drew for Collier's Weekly...
(Gillies Light, Gillies Bold) - Bertram GoodhueBertram GoodhueBertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a American architect celebrated for his work in neo-gothic design. He also designed notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for the Merrymount Press.-Early career:...
(CheltenhamCheltenham (typeface)Cheltenham is a display typeface, designed in 1896 by architect Bertram Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball, director of the Cheltenham Press. The original drawings were known as Boston Old Style and were made about 14" high. These drawings were then turned over to Morris Fuller Benton at American Type...
) - Frederic GoudyFrederic GoudyFrederic W. Goudy was a prolific American type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerley, and Goudy Old Style. He also designed, in 1938, University of California Oldstyle, for the sole proprietary use of the University of California Press...
(90 completed typefaces including: CopperplateCopperplate GothicCopperplate Gothic is a typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy and released by the American Type Founders in 1901. While termed a "Gothic" , the face has small glyphic serifs that act to emphasize the blunt terminus of vertical and horizontal strokes...
, 1905; Goudy Old Style, 1915; Berkeley Oldstyle, 1938) - James GrieshaberJames GrieshaberJames Grieshaber is an American typeface and lettering designer. Grieshaber has worked with the P22 type foundry, International House of Fonts and Monotype Imaging. He has contributed to the design of the typeface P22 Cézanne Pro as well as may other original type designs...
- Chauncey H. GriffithChauncey H. GriffithChauncey H. Griffith , American printer and typeface designer. Griffith was born in the U.S. state of Ohio, and began his career as a compositor and pressman. In 1906 he joined the Mergenthaler Linotype Company as part of their sales force...
(34 typefaces including Bell GothicBell (typeface)Bell Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1938 while heading the typographic development program at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company...
, 1937; Poster Bodoni, 1938) - Victor HammerVictor HammerVictor Karl Hammer , was an Austrian-born American painter, sculptor, printer, and typographer.-Early life and education:Hammer was born in Vienna, Austria to Karl and Maria Hammer...
(American Uncial) - Berton Hasebe
- George Hauser (Hauser Script)
- Cyrus Highsmith (Benton Sans, together with Tobias Frere-Jones)
- Sol HessSol HessSol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...
(house designer for Lanston Monotype CompanyLanston Monotype CompanyLanston Monotype Company was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the end of the nineteenth century by Tolbert Lanston. In 1887 he received his first patent for a mechanical typesetting device. The current incarnation as the "Lanston Type Co." is a division of P22 type foundry....
where he completed 85 typefaces) - Jonathan HoeflerJonathan HoeflerJonathan Hoefler is an American typeface designer. Hoefler founded Hoefler & Frere-Jones , a type foundry in New York that Hoefler shares with fellow type designer Tobias Frere-Jones.Hoefler has designed original typefaces for Rolling Stone Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine,...
(Knockout, Hoefler Text, Gotham, Archer, Sentinel, partner with Tobias Frere-Jones) - Kris HolmesKris HolmesKris Holmes is a type designer. She is with Charles Bigelow the co-creator of the Lucida font family.She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her MFA from UCLA Film School in Animation...
(Lucida) - Paul D. Hunt
- Dard HunterDard HunterWilliam Joseph "Dard" Hunter was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking—especially by hand, using the tools and craft of four centuries prior...
(private faces for his Mountain House Press) - Dard Hunter, Jr. (private faces for his father's Mountain House Press)
- Walter Huxley (Huxley Vertical)
- Susan KareSusan KareSusan Kare is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT , working as the Creative Director.-Background:Kare was born in Ithaca, New York and is the sister of aerospace engineer...
(original Apple Macintosh typeface, 1984) - Max R. Kaufmann (Kaufmann Script, BalloonBalloon (typeface)Balloon is a brush script commonly used for signage or display purposes. It was designed in 1939 by Max R. Kaufmann, for American Type Founders, in response to Howard Allen Trafton's Cartoon, cut for Bauer Type Foundry in 1936. It had no lowercase letters and was cast in Light, Bold, and Extra Bold...
) - Richard KeglerRichard KeglerRichard Kegler is the founding partner of P22 type foundry, which originated in 1994 as an outgrowth of his Master’s thesis project on Marcel Duchamp. Mr. Kegler’s background in typography and book arts includes ventures in bookbinding and letterpress printing...
- Donald KnuthDonald KnuthDonald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms...
(Computer Modern) - Carl Stephen Junge (Swagger Capitals)
- Jess Latham (Shimmer, Pink Martini)
- Kent Lew (Whitman)
- Patricia Lillie
- Richard Lipton (Arrus, Bremen)
- Herb LubalinHerb LubalinHerbert F. Lubalin was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications...
(Lubalin Graph) - Richard N. McArthur (Old Dutch)
- Douglas Crawford McMurtrieDouglas Crawford McMurtrieDouglas Crawford McMurtrie was an American typeface designer, graphic designer, historian and bibliographer of printing.-Early career:...
(Ultra-Modern Roman) - R. Hunter MiddletonR. Hunter MiddletonRobert Hunter Middleton was an American book designer, painter, and type designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland he came to Chicago in 1908 where he studied at the School of the Art Institute. He joined the design department of the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1923 and served as director of the...
(99 typefaces including: Stellar, CoronetCoronet (typeface)Coronet is an American typeface designed in 1937 by R. Hunter Middleton. It is also sometimes known as "Ribbon 131".-Uses in Popular Culture:*Andy Warhol's "signature" on the cover of Velvet Underground and Nico is done in this font....
, StencilStencil (typeface)Stencil refers to two typefaces released within months of each other in 1937. The face created byR. Hunter Middleton for Ludlow was advertised in June, while Gerry Powell's version for American Type Founders appeared one month later...
, DelphianDelphian (typeface)Delphian is an all-caps display typeface created by R. Hunter Middleton in 1928. It is seldom used today, except to evoke an art deco aura....
, UmbraUmbra (typeface)Umbra is a sans-serif display typeface designed in 1935 by R. Hunter Middleton. It is an adaptation of the uppercase set of his earlier typeface Tempo Light. The name Umbra refers to its shadow effect, in which the actual letter shape consists of negative space and is defined solely by its black...
) - James Montalbano (Clearview)
- Dave NalleDave NalleDave Nalle is a political writer, game author and font designer who was active in the early history of the development of the internet...
(Abaddon, Hesperides, Ligeia, Ironworks, Folkard) - William Dana Orcutt (Humanistic)
- Hrant H. Papazian
- Wadsworth A. ParkerWadsworth A. ParkerWadsworth A. Parker was an American printer and typeface designer. He was a director of the American Type Founders Company, designed many faces for them, and served as head of their specimen department. His faces are typically highly decorative and often capture the Art Deco style of the...
(Lexington, Gallia) - Jim ParkinsonJim ParkinsonJim Parkinson is a Type Designer in Oakland.-Life:Parkinson studied advertising design and painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, graduating in 1963. In 1964, he worked as a lettering artist for Hallmark Cards under Myron McVay with some consultation from Hermann Zapf...
- Robert Petrick
- Joseph W. PhinneyJoseph W. PhinneyJoseph Warren Phinney was an American printer, type designer, and business executive. Phinney began his career at the Dickinson Type Foundry in Boston where he designed type and worked in management, eventually becoming owner...
(Abbott Old Style, Cloister Black (with M.F. Benton), Camelot (with F. Goudy)) - Gerry Powell (Onyx, StencilStencil (typeface)Stencil refers to two typefaces released within months of each other in 1937. The face created byR. Hunter Middleton for Ludlow was advertised in June, while Gerry Powell's version for American Type Founders appeared one month later...
) - Will RansomWill RansomWill Ransom was an American graphic designer, letterer, typeface designer, and the foremost bibliographer of private presses.-Youth and early career:...
(Parsons) - John L. “Bud” Renshaw (Franklin Gothic Wide)
- Frank H. Riley (Grayda)
- Bruce Rogers (Centaur)
- Tim Rolands
- Guido + Lawrence Rosa (Rosa Roman + Italic)
- David J. Ross (Manicotti)
- Rudolph RuzickaRudolph RuzickaRudolph Ruzicka prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype...
(Fairfield) - Stefan SagmeisterStefan SagmeisterStefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the...
(Sagmeister, Inc.) - Stuart Sandler (Leisure Script)
- Michael Scarpitti (typeface based on Latin inscriptions)
- Christian SchwartzChristian SchwartzChristian Schwartz is an American type designer. He has been awarded the German Design Award and the Prix Charles Peignot.-Life :...
(NeutrafaceNeutrafaceNeutraface is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Christian Schwartz for House Industries, an American type foundry. It was influenced by Richard Neutra's design principles and was developed with the assistance of Neutra's son and former partner, Dion Neutra.The general purpose versions of...
, Amplitude, Guardian Egyptian) - Ralph Fletcher SeymourRalph Fletcher SeymourRalph Fletcher Seymour was an American artist, author, and publisher of the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries...
(private typefaces for his Alderbrink Press) - Mark Simonson (Proxima Nova, Coquette, Mostra Nuova)
- Robert SlimbachRobert SlimbachRobert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-...
(Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier) - Dan X. Solo
- Brian Sooy
- Robert E. Smith (Park Avenue, Brush)
- Willard T. Sniffin (Nubian, Rivoli, Piranesi)
- Sara SoskolneSara SoskolneSara Soskolne is a Canadian type designer best known for her work at Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry on such typefaces as Gotham. Sara Soskolne received an MA from the University of Reading in 2003...
(Gotham with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones) - Tony Stan (ITC Century)
- Sumner StoneSumner StoneSumner Stone is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe. A specimen of ITC Stone exists at his personal website.-Career:...
(Stone Sans, Stone Serif, Stone Informal, Stone Print, Cycles) - Ilene StrizverIlene StrizverIlene Strizver is a noted typographic educator, author, designer and founder of The Type Studio in Westport, Connecticut. Her book, Type Rules! The designer’s guide to professional typography, is now in its 3rd edition....
- Neil Summerour (Aaux, Baka, Epic, Organic )
- Judith Sutcliffe
- Tommy ThompsonTommy Thompson (type designer)Tommy Thompson was an American calligrapher, graphic artist and typeface designer. In 1944 he became the first designer to earn royalties for a type design, from Photo Lettering Inc. for his Thompson Quill Script. Previously, designers had worked in house for foundries or had sold the rights to...
(titling series for Saturday Evening Post and ColliersCollier's WeeklyCollier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
) - Christina Torre
- Howard Allen Trafton (Trafton Script, Cartoon)
- George F. Trenholm (Trenholm Oldstyle)
- Carol TwomblyCarol TwomblyCarol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces...
(Lithos, Myriad (co-designer), Trajan, Charlemagne, Nueva, Adobe Caslon) - Frederic WardeFrederic WardeFrederic Warde was a typographic designer. He was born in Wells, Minnesota, enlisted in the United States Army in 1915 and attended the Army School of Military Aeronautics at the University of California, Berkeley during 1917-1918...
(ArrighiCentaur (typeface)Centaur is a Humanist Type Family originally drawn as titling capitals by Bruce Rogers in 1914 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The matrices were cut by Robert Wiebking and the type was privately cast by the American Type Foundery. The typeface is based upon several Renaissance models...
) - Jim Wasco (Elegy, Harmonia Sans, Mythos)
- Robert WiebkingRobert WiebkingRobert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...
(31 typefaces as a designer, including: Artcraft, Munder, Advertisers Gothic. Many more as a punch-cutter.) - George Williams (Caslon Roman, Monospace)
- Delve Withrington (Blot Test)
- Doyald YoungDoyald YoungDoyald Young was an American typeface designer and teacher who specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets, and typefaces.-Work:...
(Young Baroque, Eclat) - John Zimmermann (head matrix maker for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundryBarnhart Brothers & SpindlerBarnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs. Oz Cooper, Will Ransom, Robert Wiebking, and...
) - John HudsonJohn HudsonJohn Hudson may refer to:* John Hudson , older brother of actor William Hudson* John Hudson , former NFL player* John Hudson , former American basketball player...
(Gabriola)