Robert Norton (1929–2001) was a British publisher, consultant on printing and

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executive. The son of the children's author Mary Norton, he established the company Photoscript, a

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 ...

technology company, before moving into

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technology.The truth about Westminster (the font!)
Mercer Design] He later moved to Seattle to take up a position as an executive at Microsoft, advising on fonts to be included with Windows. Many of the release notes accompanying Microsoft typefaces were written by him. While in Washington, he self-published the book ''Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten'' on good and bad choices of font. He married Abigail Scully in the United States and had four children. After retiring from Microsoft in 1997, he ran his fine press brand, the Parsimony Press, in Huntspill, Somerset.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Norton, Robert 1929 births 2001 deaths English typographers and type designers Microsoft employees People educated at Christ's Hospital