Edwin W. Shaar (January 1, 1915 – April 26, 2001) was an American writer,

graphic artist A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, p ...

and

typeface designer Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below. A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production su ...

. He was an assistant art director at

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before becoming director of the type design program at Intertype. He also designed

Phototypesetting Phototypesetting is a method of setting type. It uses photography to make columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper. It has been made obsolete by the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing (digital typesetting). Th ...

faces.Edwin W. Shaa

(retrieved April 17, 2020)

Typefaces

Shaar designed all of these moveable type, foundry types:MacGrew, Mac, ''American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century,'' Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, . Shaar also designed these fotofonts:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaar, Edwin W. American typographers and type designers 1915 births American artists 2001 deaths