List of type designers

A type designer is a person who designs typefaces. (The term "typographer" is sometimes misapplied to type designers: a typographer is a person who arranges existing typefaces to lay out a page – see typography.)

A partial list of notable type designers follows by country, with a signature typeface (or two for significant designers).

Australia

Stephen Banham

Brazil

Eduardo Recife

Canada

Gerald Giampa
Ray Larabie^[1]
Jim Rimmer^[2]
Nick Shinn^[3]
Sara Soskolne (Gotham with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones)

Czech Republic

Germany

Otto Arpke (Taiko)
Johann Christian Bauer (Fette Fraktur)
Konrad Friedrich Bauer (Fortune)
Walter Baum (Fortune)
Peter Behrens (Bahrens-Schrift)
Georg Belwe (Belwe Roman)
Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic)
Jakob Erbar (Erbar, Candida, Feder Grotesk, Koloss)
Johann Gutenberg
Karlgeorg Hoefer (Elegance, Permanent)
Heinrich Jost (Bauer Bodoni, Beton)
Rudolf Koch (Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch)
Paul Renner (Futura, 1927)
Erik Spiekermann (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit and others)
Jan Tschichold (Sabon)
Carlos Winkow designer for the Nacional Typefoundry of Madrid
Berthold Wolpe (Albertus)
Hermann Zapf (Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino)
Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (Diotima, Alcuin)

Israel

Henri Friedlaender (Hadassah, Shalom, Hadar, Aviv)
Eliyahu Koren (Koren)

Italy

Amoretti Brothers (Amoretti)
Raffaello Bertieri (Inkunabula, Paganini)
Giambattista Bodoni (Bodoni)
Alessandro Butti (Microgramma, Rondine)
Francesco Griffo (Bembo, Poliphilus)
Aldus Manutius
Aldo Novarese (Novarese, Eurostile, Fenice, Recta, Microgramma, Stop, Expert, Magister, Garaldus, Normandia, Recta, Estro)
Fabrizio Schiavi (PragmataPro, Sys, Abitare Sans, Siruca)

Netherlands

Evert Bloemsma (FF Balance, FF Cocon, FF Avance, FF Legato)
Jos Buivenga (Anivers, Calluna, Delicious, Diavlo, Fontin, Fertigo, Museo, Questa)
Wim Crouwel (Catalogue, Fodor, Gridnik, New Alphabet, Stedelijk)
Bram de Does (TEFF Trinité, TEFF Lexicon)
Dick Dooijes (Nobel, Contura, Lectura, Rondo, Mercator)
Lucas de Groot (Thesis, TheAntiqua, Corpid, Calibri)
Boudewijn Ietswaart (Balduina)
Jan van Krimpen (Spectrum, Romanée, Romulus, Haarlemmer, Lutetia, Cancellaresca Bastarda)
Martin Majoor (FF Scala, FF Scala Sans, Telefont, FF Seria, FF Seria Sans, FF Nexus Serif, FF Nexus Sans, FF Nexus Mix)
Gerrit Noordzij (TEFF Burgundica, TEFF Ruse)
Albert-Jan Pool (FF DIN, URW Imperial, URW Linear, Mauritius I, FF OCR-F, Jet Set Sans, DTL HEIN GAS, Regenbogen Bold)
S.H. de Roos (aka Sjoerd de Roos (Hollandsche Mediæval, Grotius, Egmont, Libria, De Roos, Zilvertype)
Fred Smeijers (OurType, Arnhem, Fresco, Sansa, DTL Nobel, TEFF Renard, FF Quadraat)
Gerard Unger (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)

New Zealand

Portugal

Manuel Pereira da Silva (MPS Rotunda) (deceased)

Russia

Alexandra Korolkova (PT Fonts)
Solomon Telingater (1903–1969)

Serbia

Hieromonk Makarije

Slovakia

Peter Biľak (Eureka, Fedra, Greta, History, Irma, Julien, Karloff, Lava)
Zuzana Licko (Mrs Eaves, Filosofia)

Spain

Eudald Pradell, punchcutter

Sweden

Bo Berndal (Sispos and Sisneg; Old Swedish standard [SIS 030011, 1973] for public road signs, displays)
Karl-Erik Forsberg (Berling, Lunda, Carolus, Ericus, Gustavus, Polhem, Carolina Script, Aros Antiqua)
Akke Kumlien (Kumlien Medieval)
Franko Luin

Switzerland

Max Bill (Bill)^[4]
Adrian Frutiger (1928–2015, Avenir, Frutiger, Univers)
Karl Gerstner^[5]
Max Miedinger (Helvetica)

Syria

Mamoun Sakkal (Shilia, Hasan Al Quds, Al-Futtaim)

Thailand

Anuthin Wongsunkakon

United Kingdom

Charles Robert Ashbee (Endevour, Prayer Book)
Richard Austin (Bel, Porson)
Jonathan Barnbrook (Mason, Exocet, 1996 released through Emigre fonts, Nylon, Prototype, Bastarda)
Paul Barnes (Guardian Egyptian, with Christian Schwartz, 2005)
John Baskerville (Baskerville)
Robert Besley (Clarendon)
Neville Brody (Arcadia, 1986, Blur, Auto-Suggestion)
Margaret Calvert (Transport, Rail Alphabet)
Matthew Carter (Snell Roundhand, 1965; Shelley Script, 1972; Galliard, 1978; Skia, Georgia, Mantinia, all 1993; Verdana, 1996; Tahoma, 1999)
William Caslon (Caslon)
Roy Cole (Lina, 2004)
Eric Gill (Gill Sans, Perpetua, both 1928; Joanna, 1937)
Phill Grimshaw (over 44 typefaces including Oberon, Hazel, Gravura, Obelisk, Klepto)
Robert Harling
Rian Hughes (Blackcurrant, Custard and numerous others released through Device)
Edward Johnston (Johnston, 1916)
Seb Lester (Scene, Soho, Neo Sans and Neo Tech)
Bruno Maag (Tesco, Tottenham Hotspur, Telewest, Urban Splash, BT, BMW, Vodafone, Nokia Pure) Dalton Maag Type Design
Stanley Morison (Times New Roman)
Fiona Ross (Adobe Devanagari, Linotype Devanagari, Adobe Thai)
Jeremy Tankard (Bliss, Corbel, Blue Island, Disturbance, Enigma, Aspect)
Walter Tracy (Jubilee, Adsans, Telegraph Modern, 1969 Times Europa, 1972)

United States

Ed Benguiat (over 600 typefaces including Bookman, and ITC Benguiat)
Linn Boyd Benton (Century)
Morris Fuller Benton (America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 total typefaces, including Franklin Gothic, Century Schoolbook, News Gothic, Bank Gothic)
Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic, Bernhard Modern)
Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design (Lucida family)
Joseph Blumenthal (Spiral, Emerson)
William H. Bradley
Jackson Burke (Trade Gothic, 1948)
Leslie Cabarga (Magneto,^[6] Bad Typ, Casey, Streamline, Raceway)^[7]
Warren Chappell (Lydian series)
Thomas Maitland Cleland (Della Robbia)
Vincent Connare (Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Magpie)
Oswald Bruce 'Oz' Cooper (Cooper Black, 1921)
Rick Cusick (Nyx)
Joshua Darden (Freight, Omnes)
Chank Diesel
Michael Doret (Metroscript, Deliscript, DeLuxe Gothic, Orion MD, PowerStation)
William Addison Dwiggins (36 completed typefaces including Electra, Caledonia, Metro)
Louise Fili (Mardell, Montecatini)
Tobias Frere-Jones (Interstate, Gotham, Reactor, Mallory, Retina)
Sidney Gaunt (46 typefaces including Adstyle, Pencraft)
Ross F. George (sign painter and type designer)
William S. Gillies (Gillies Light, Gillies Bold)
Bertram Goodhue (Cheltenham)
Frederic Goudy (90 completed typefaces including Copperplate, 1905; Goudy Old Style, 1915; Berkeley Oldstyle, 1938)
Chauncey H. Griffith (34 typefaces including Bell Gothic, 1937; Poster Bodoni, 1938)
Victor Hammer (American Uncial)
Sol Hess (house designer for Lanston Monotype Company, where he completed 85 typefaces)
Jessica Hische (Brioche, Tilda, Buttermilk)
Jonathan Hoefler (Knockout, Gotham, Sentinel, Mercury, Chronicle, Archer, Verlag, Forza, Hoefler Text, Hoefler Titling, Ideal Sans)
Kris Holmes (Lucida)
Dard Hunter (private faces for his Mountain House Press)
Susan Kare (original Apple Macintosh typeface, 1984)
Richard Kegler
Donald Knuth (Computer Modern)
Raph Levien (Inconsolata, Museum, Century Catalogue)^[8]
Zuzana Licko (Filosofia, Triplex, Mrs Eaves)
Harold Lohner^[9]
Herb Lubalin (ITC Avant Garde, Lubalin Graph)
Steve Matteson (Aptos, Curlz, Droid, Open Sans)
Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (Ultra-Modern Roman)
R. Hunter Middleton (99 typefaces including:Stellar, Coronet, Stencil, Delphian, Umbra)
James Montalbano (Clearview)
Berne Nadall (1869–1932), Caslon Antique.^[10]
Lawrence O'Donnell (Seglimint, 2006)
William Dana Orcutt (Humanistic)
Wadsworth A. Parker (Lexington, Gallia)
Jim Parkinson (ITC Bodoni [with Janice Prescott Fishman, Holly Goldsmith, and Sumner Stone], Jimbo, Sutro)
Joseph W. Phinney (Abbott Old Style, Cloister Black [with M.F. Benton], Camelot [with F. Goudy])
Will Ransom (Parsons)
Thomas Rickner
Bruce Rogers (Centaur)
Rudolph Ruzicka (Fairfield)
Christian Schwartz (Neutraface, Neue Haas Grotesk, Amplitude, Guardian Egyptian)
Tré Seals (VTC Martin, Bayard, Carrie)
Ralph Fletcher Seymour (private typefaces for his Alderbrink Press)
Mark Simonson
Robert Slimbach (Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier)
Sumner Stone (Stone Sans, Stone Serif, Stone Informal, Stone Print, Cycles)
Tommy Thompson (titling series for Saturday Evening Post and Colliers)
Carol Twombly (Lithos, Myriad (co-designer), Trajan, Charlemagne, Nueva, Adobe Caslon)
Frederic Warde (Arrighi)
Robert Wiebking (31 typefaces as a designer, including Artcraft, Munder, Advertisers Gothic; many more as a punch-cutter)
Doyald Young (Young Baroque, Eclat)

References

↑ "Typodermic Fonts Homepage". Typodermicfonts.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
↑ "Welcome to Canada Type!". Canadatype.net. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
↑ "Shinntype Homepage". Typodermicfonts.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
↑ https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-23871.html
↑ "Typographer Karl Gerstner dies". SWI swissinfo.ch. January 3, 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
↑ "Magneto Bold". Identifont. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
↑ "Of Type & Lettering with Leslie Cabarga," DT&G magazine. Accessed Dec. 10, 2016.
↑ My fonts at levien.com, retrieved November 18, 2019
↑ "Harold's Fonts Homepage". HaroldsFonts.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
↑ Loy, William E. "Designers and Engravers of Type: No. XXVII — Berne Nadall" (PDF). The Inland Printer. p. 382.

External links

[typodermic-1] "Typodermic Fonts Homepage". Typodermicfonts.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.

[2] "Welcome to Canada Type!". Canadatype.net. Retrieved 2017-01-04.

[3] "Shinntype Homepage". Typodermicfonts.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.

[4] ttps://luc.devroye.org/fonts-23871.html

[5] "Typographer Karl Gerstner dies". SWI swissinfo.ch. January 3, 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-04.

[identifont-6] "Magneto Bold". Identifont. Retrieved 10 October 2010.

[dtg-7] "Of Type & Lettering with Leslie Cabarga," DT&G magazine. Accessed Dec. 10, 2016.

[8] My fonts at levien.com, retrieved November 18, 2019

[9] "Harold's Fonts Homepage". HaroldsFonts.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.

[10] Loy, William E. "Designers and Engravers of Type: No. XXVII — Berne Nadall" (PDF). The Inland Printer. p. 382.

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