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

Australia

Stephen Banham Stephen Banham is an Australian typographer, type designer, writer, lecturer and founder of Letterbox, a typographic studio. Banham was born in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and mos ...

Brazil

Eduardo Recife Eduardo Recife is an artist, illustrator and typographer from Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 2 ...

Canada

* Gerald Giampa * Ray Larabie * Jim Rimmer *

Nick Shinn Nick Shinn (born London, England, 1952) is a typeface designer. He attended Bedford School then Leeds Polytechnic, where he earned a Dip. AD in Fine Art. In 1976 he moved to Toronto, Canada, where he worked as an art director and creative direc ...

Czech Republic

František Štorm František "Franta" Štorm (born 3 July 1966) is a Czech musician, photographer, typographer, writer, teacher, artist, illustrator and record producer, famous for being the vocalist and a founding member of the black metal band Master's Hammer. ...

Vojtěch Preissig Vojtěch Preissig (31 July 1873 – 11 June 1944) was a Czech typographer, printmaker, designer, illustrator, painter and teacher. He studied in Prague at the School of Applied Industrial Art (in Friedrich Ohmann's Decorative Architecture wo ...

* Petr Blažek

France

George Auriol George Auriol, born Jean-Georges Huyot (26 April 1863, Beauvais (Oise) – February 1938, Paris), was a French poet, songwriter, graphic designer, type designer, and Art Nouveau artist. He worked in many media and created illustrations for the ...

( Auriol) *

Michel Bouvet Michel Bouvet (born 1955 in Tunis) is a French designer and poster artist. He is professor of visual culture at ESAG Penninghen (Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,4 ...

Louis Braille Louis Braille (; ; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system, named braille after him, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtua ...

* Adolphe Mouron Cassandre ( Peignot, 1937) *

Charles Nicolas Cochin Charles-Nicolas Cochin (22 February 1715 – 29 April 1790) was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic. To distinguish him from his father of the same name, he is variously called Charles-Nicolas Cochin le Jeune (the Younger), Cha ...

* Simon de Colines * Firmin Didot *

François Didot Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Amb ...

François-Ambroise Didot Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Amb ...

Henri Didot Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Amb ...

Pierre Didot Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Amb ...

Xavier Dupré Xavier Dupré is a typeface designer born in Aubenas (Ardèche), France in 1977. Dupré is notable for the recognition he has received for his typeface designs in the 2000s. According to several similar online biographies Dupré studied graphic ...

Roger Excoffon Roger Excoffon (7 September 1910 – 30 May 1983) was a French typeface designer and graphic designer. Excoffon was born in Marseille, studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and then moved to Paris to apprentice in a print shop. I ...

Pierre Simon Fournier Pierre-Simon Fournier (15 September 1712 – 8 October 1768) was a French mid-18th century punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician. He was both a collector and originator of types. Fournier's contributions to printing were his cre ...

* Claude Garamond ( Garamond) *

Robert Granjon Robert Granjon (1513-November 16, 1589/March 1590) was a French type designer and printer. He worked in Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Antwerp, and Rome for various printers. He is best known for having introduced the typeface Civilité and for his ital ...

Hector Guimard Hector Guimard (, 10 March 1867 – 20 May 1942) was a French architect and designer, and a prominent figure of the Art Nouveau style. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building ...

Nicolas Jenson Nicholas Jenson (c. 1420 – 1480) was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy. Jenson acted as Master of the French Royal Mint at Tours and is credited with being the creator of on ...

* Christophe Plantin *

Jean-François Porchez Jean-François is a French given name. Notable people bearing the given name include: * Jean-François Carenco (born 1952), French politician * Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist * Jean-François Clervoy (born 1958), F ...

Jacques Sabon Jacques Sabon (born in Lyon, 1535; died in Frankfurt-am-Main, ca.1580-1590Sources vary, giving date of death as 1580 or 1590) was a French typefounder. He worked with Christian Egenolff in Frankfurt in 1555 and Christophe Plantin of Antwerp in 15 ...

* Wynkyn de Worde

Germany

Otto Arpke Otto Arpke (16 October 1886 – 4 December 1943) 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 No ...

( Taiko) *

Johann Christian Bauer Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) 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 thr ...

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Fette Fraktur Fette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850. The C.E. Weber Foundry published a version in 1875, and the D Stempel AG foundry publishe ...

) *

Konrad Friedrich Bauer Konrad Friedrich Bauer (9 December 1903 – 17 March 1970) 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. ...

(Fortune) *

Walter Baum Walter Baum (23 May 1921 – 8 March 2007) was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher. Baum trained as a typesetter from 1935 to 1939. He resumed his studies after World War II before becoming head of the graphics studio at the ...

(Fortune) * Lucian Bernhard (

Bernhard Gothic Bernhard Gothic is a family of geometric sans serif typeface designed by Lucian Bernhard in 1929 for the American Type Founders (ATF). Five variations by Bernhard were introduced over two years: * ''Bernhard Gothic Medium'' (1929) * ''Bernhard ...

) * Peter Behrens (Bahrens-Schrift) * Georg Belwe (Belwe Roman) *

Jakob Erbar Jakob Erbar (8 February 1878 – 7 January 1935) was a German professor of graphic design and a type designer. Erbar trained as a typesetter for the Dumont-Schauberg Printing Works before studying under Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons. Erbar ...

( Erbar, Candida, Feder Grotesk, Koloss) *

Johann Gutenberg Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (; – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though not the first of its kind, earlier designs w ...

* Karlgeorg Hoefer (Elegance, Permanent) * Heinrich Jost (Bauer Bodoni, Beton) * Rudolf Koch (Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch) * Paul Renner ( Futura, 1927) *

Erik Spiekermann Erik Spiekermann (born 30 May 1947 in Stadthagen, Lower Saxony) is a German typographer, designer and writer. He is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and ArtCenter College of Design. Biography Spiekermann studied art his ...

( FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit and others) * Jan Tschichold (Sabon) *

Carlos Winkow Carl Winckow known in Spain, where he spent most of his working life, as Carlos Winkow (6 February 1882 – 16 January 1952) was a German type designer who worked primarily for the Nacional Typefoundry. Fonts Designed by Carlos Winkow * Elzevi ...

designer for the

Nacional Typefoundry Fundición 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 Fundición Tipográfica Neufville of Barcelona ...

of Madrid *

Berthold Wolpe Berthold Ludwig Wolpe (29 October 1905 – 5 July 1989) was a German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator. He was born into a Jewish family at Offenbach near Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfu ...

(Albertus) *

Gudrun Zapf von Hesse Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse (2 January 1918 – 13 December 2019) was a German book-binder, calligrapher and typographer. She also designed several typefaces. She was the 1991 winner of the Frederic W. Goudy Award. To mark her hundredth birthday in ...

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Diotima Diotima may refer to: People * Diotima of Mantinea, an ancient female philosopher and tutor of Socrates * Pen-name of Esme Wynn-Tyson, British author. * Pseudonym of Susette Borkenstein Gontard in poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin * Pseudonym of Erm ...

, Alcuin) *

Hermann Zapf Hermann Zapf (; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include Pa ...

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Palatino Palatino is the name of an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Named after the 16th-century Italia ...

Optima Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released by the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, West Germany in 1958. Though classified as a sans-serif, Optima has a subtle swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic ...

, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats,

Zapfino Zapfino 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. As a font, it makes extensive use of ligatures and character variations (for example ...

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Israel

Henri Friedlaender Henri Friedlaender (1904–1996) was an Israeli typographer and book designer. He co-founded the Hadassah Printing School and served as the first director of the school. Early life He was born in Lyon, France, in 1904 to a British mother, Rose ...

(Hadassah, Shalom, Hadar, Aviv) *

Eliyahu Koren Eliyahu Koren (Hebrew: אליהו קורן; July 23, 1907 — February 17, 2001) was a master typographer and graphic artist. After studying in Nuremberg, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1933. He served as head of the graphics department ...

( Koren)

Italy

Raffaello Bertieri Raffaello Bertieri (1875–1941) 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 Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) ...

(Inkunabula, Paganini) * Giambattista Bodoni ( Bodoni) * Alessandro Butti ( Microgramma, Rondine) * Francesco Griffo (Bembo, Poliphilus) *

Aldus Manutius Aldus Pius Manutius (; it, Aldo Pio Manuzio; 6 February 1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press. Manutius devoted the later part of his life to publishing and disseminating rare texts. His interest in and preserv ...

Aldo Novarese Aldo Novarese (29 June 1920 – 16 September 1995) was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin. Training and career Born in 1920, he entered the G.B. Paravia Typographic School in Turin, where he obtained a diploma. In 193 ...

(Novarese, Eurostile, Fenice, Recta, Microgramma, Stop, Expert, Magister, Garaldus, Normandia, Recta, Estro, ...) * Amoretti Brothers (Amoretti) *

Fabrizio Schiavi Fabrizio Schiavi born in Ponte dell'Olio near Piacenza (Italy), is a graphic designer and type designer. Schiavi is particularly known for the very large font project PragmataPro, the monospaced family designed optimized for screen designed to ...

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PragmataPro PragmataPro is a monospaced font family designed for programming, created by Fabrizio Schiavi. It is a narrow programming font designed for legibility. The font implements Unicode characters, including (polytonic) Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew ...

, Sys, Abitare Sans, Siruca…)

Netherlands

* Evert Bloemsma (FF Balance, FF Cocon, FF Avance, FF Legato) *

Jos Buivenga Jos Buivenga is a Dutch typeface designer. His designs include the Museo and Calluna families and the Questa family in collaboration with Martin Majoor Martin Majoor (born 14 October 1960) is a Dutch type designer and graphic designer. As of 2 ...

(Anivers, Calluna, Delicious, Diavlo, Fontin, Fertigo, Museo, Questa) * Wim Crouwel (Catalogue,

Fodor The surname Fodor may refer to the following notable people: * Benjamin Fodor alias Phoenix Jones (born 1988), American real-life superhero * Carel Anton Fodor (1768–1846), Dutch conductor and composer * Carl Fodor (born 1963), American football ...

, Gridnik,

New Alphabet New Alphabet is a parametric typeface designed by Wim Crouwel, released in 1967. It embraced the limitations of the display technology that it was displayed on by only using horizontal and vertical strokes. This meant that some of the letters ha ...

, Stedelijk) *

Bram de Does Bram de Does (19 July 1934 – 28 December 2015) was a graphic and type designer. Born in Amsterdam, 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 fa ...

( TEFF Trinité, TEFF Lexicon) *

Dick Dooijes Dick Dooijes (May 6, 1909 – June 20, 1998) was a Dutch typeface designer. He worked at the Amsterdam Type Foundry for over forty years and directed the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1968 to 1974. Biography Dick Dooijes was born in Amsterdam on ...

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Nobel Nobel often refers to: *Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel Nobel may also refer to: Companies *AkzoNobel, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994 *Branobel, or ...

, Contura, Lectura, Rondo, Mercator) *

Lucas de Groot Lucas de Groot (born in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands), known professionally as Luc(as) de Groot, is a Dutch type designer. He is the head of the type foundry Fontfabrik, also trading as LucasFonts. De Groot is particularly known for the very ...

( Thesis, TheAntiqua, Corpid,

Calibri Calibri () is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2007, with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. In Office 2007, it ...

) *

Boudewijn Ietswaart Bernhard Jan Boudewijn Ietswaart ( Amsterdam, 12 December 1936 - 23 December 2010) was a Dutch graphic designer, illustrator and type designer who worked almost 20 years outside his native country, especially in Mexico, Spain and Venezuela. Hi ...

(Balduina) * Jan van Krimpen (Spectrum, Romanée, Romulus, Haarlemmer, Lutetia, Cancellaresca Bastarda) *

Martin Majoor Martin Majoor (born 14 October 1960) is a Dutch type designer and graphic designer. As of 2006, he had worked since 1997 in both Arnhem, Netherlands, and Warsaw, Poland. Biography Early life Majoor was born in 1960 in the town of Baarn, in th ...

( 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 FF DIN is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or "grotesque" style. It was designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool, based on DIN-Mittelschrift and DIN-Engschrift, as defined in the German standard DIN 1451. DIN is an acronym for ''Deutsches Insti ...

, 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 Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos (14 September 1877 – 3 April 1962), better known as S. H. de Roos, was a Dutch type designer, book cover designer and artist. Life and work De Roos was born in Drachten to a cobbler, but moved to Amsterdam at an ea ...

(Hollandsche Mediæval, Grotius, Egmont, Libria, De Roos, Zilvertype) * Fred Smeijers (OurType, Arnhem, Fresco, Sansa, DTL Nobel, TEFF Renard, FF Quadraat) *

Gerard Unger Gerard Unger (22 January 1942 – 23 November 2018) was a Dutch 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 estab ...

(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

Joseph Churchward Joseph Churchward (20 August 1932 – 26 April 2013) was a Samoan New Zealander, Samoan-born New Zealand graphic designer and typographer. He is known for having designed an estimated 690 original typefaces, many of which are in use around the ...

* Kris Sowersby * Jack Yan

Portugal

João Miranda João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below. Kings * ...

(BIG, Calma, Adfuel, Phuc) *

Manuel Pereira da Silva 200px, Manuel Pereira da Silva Manuel Pereira da Silva (7 December 1920 – 2003) was a Portuguese sculptor. He was born in Avintes, Portugal. The workmanship of Manuel Pereira da Silva has an abstract formal orientation inspired in the huma ...

(MPS Rotunda) (deceased) *

Nuno Dias Nuno Sérgio dos Santos Dias (born 28 December 1972) is a Portuguese Futsal coach who currently manages Sporting Clube de Portugal. Honours Manager Sporting CP * UEFA Futsal Champions League The UEFA Futsal Champions League is an annual futsa ...

(Meteoric) *

Rafael Serra José Rafael Simón Agapito Serra y Montalvo (March 24, 1858 - October 24, 1909) was an Afro-Cuban intellectual who played a large role in supporting the Cuban War of Independence. He worked as a writer and editor for Spanish-language newspape ...

Rúben Dias Rúben dos Santos Gato Alves Dias (; born 14 May 1997) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for club Manchester City and the Portugal national team. Considered one of the best defenders in the world, he is know ...

(Taca) * Rui Abreu (R-Typography Flecha, Gliko, Staff, Pathos, Sul, Grifo (Grifito & Grifinito), Gira, Usual, Azo, Signo, Aria, Orbe; TDL Aquino with Ricardo Santos)

Russia

Solomon Telingater Solomon Telingater (1903 – 1969) was a Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, printer, typographer, and book designer. Solomon Telingater was born in Tbilisi in present-day Georgia in 1903 and moved to Baku in present-day Azerbaijan in 1910. Along ...

(1903-1969)

Serbia

* Hieromonk Makarije

Slovakia

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

South Africa

Margaret Calvert Margaret Vivienne Calvert (born 1936) is a British typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories, as we ...

(Transport)

Spain

Eudald Pradell Eudald Pradell (1721–1788) was a typographer. He was born in Ripoll in Catalonia, a little village below the Pyrenees, and belonged to a family of gunsmiths. Pradell learned the armourer's trade from his father and studied the craft of punchcutti ...

, punchcutter.

Sweden

Akke Kumlien Akke Kumlien (1884–1949) was a Swedish calligrapher, typographer, graphic designer, type designer Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concep ...

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Kumlien Medieval Kumlien is a surname of Swedish origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Akke Kumlien (1884–1949) Swedish calligrapher and graphic designer * Axel Kumlien (1833–1913) Swedish architect * Hjalmar Kumlien (1837–1897) Swedish archite ...

) *

Karl-Erik Forsberg Karl-Erik Forsberg (1914–1995) was a Swedish calligrapher, typographer, graphic designer, type designer and artist. His brother Vidar Forsberg was also a designer. His wife was Geith Forsberg. Forsberg was the artistic director of Almqvist ...

( Berling, Lunda, Carolus, Ericus, Gustavus, Polhem, Carolina Script, Aros Antiqua, and more) *

Bo Berndal Bo Berndal (1924 in Stockholm, Sweden – 2013) was a Swedish compositor and typographer. He was co-owner of BIGG (a Swedish advertising agency An advertising agency, often referred to as a creative agency or an ad agency, is a business dedicat ...

(Sispos and Sisneg. Old Swedish standard (SIS 030011, 1973) for public road signs, displays, etc.) * Franko Luin

Switzerland

Adrian Frutiger Adrian Johann Frutiger ( ; 24 May 1928 – 10 September 2015) was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital t ...

(1928-2015, Avenir, Frutiger,

Univers Univers () is a large sans-serif typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957. Classified as a Grotesque (typeface classification), neo-grotesque sans-serif, one based on the model of nineteen ...

) *

Karl Gerstner Karl Gerstner (2 July 1930 – 1 January 2017) was a Swiss designer, typographer, author, and artist. Career Gerstner attended Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel. From 1944 to 1948, Gerstner apprenticed as a typographer for artist Fritz Bühler' ...

Max Miedinger Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 – 8 March 1980) was a Swiss typeface designer, best known for creating the ''Neue Haas Grotesk'' typeface in 1957, renamed Helvetica in 1960. Marketed as a symbol of cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica achie ...

( Helvetica)

Syria

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

Thailand

Anuthin Wongsunkakon Anuthin Wongsunkakon ( th, อนุทิน วงศ์สรรคกร; born 1973) is a Thai type designer and one of the founding partners of Cadson Demak, a Thai communication design firm. He began studying graphic design at Rangsit Univers ...

United Kingdom

* Charles Robert Ashbee (, Prayer Book) * Richard Austin (

Bel BEL can be an abbreviation for: * The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Belgium * ''BEL'' or bell character in the C0 control code set * Belarusian language, in the ISO 639-2 and SIL country code lists * Bharat Electronics Limited, an Indian stat ...

, Porson) * Paul Barnes (Guardian Egyptian, with Christian Schwartz, 2005) *

Jonathan Barnbrook Jonathan Barnbrook (born 1966), is a British graphic designer, film maker and typographer. He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, both in London. Work Barnbrook designed the cover artwork of David Bowie's ...

(Mason, Exocet, 1996 released through Emigre fonts, Nylon, Prototype, Bastarda) *

John Baskerville John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1707 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer. He was also responsible for inventing "wov ...

( Baskerville) *

Robert Besley Robert Besley (1794–1876) was an English typographer, creator of Clarendon (typeface) in 1845 and the Lord Mayor of London in 1869. Career Besley was taken into partnership by William Thorowgood at the Fann Street Foundry in Fann Street, City o ...

( Clarendon) * Neville Brody (Arcadia, 1986, Blur, Auto-Suggestion)) * Matthew Carter (Snell Roundhand, 1965; Shelley Script, 1972; Galliard, 1978; Skia, Georgia, Mantinia, all 1993; Verdana, 1996; Tahoma, 1999) * William Caslon ( Caslon) *

Roy Cole Roy Cole (1932 - 2012) was a type designer. His introduction to type began at the age of fourteen with an apprenticeship in the composing room of a printers in Idle, Bradford. This was followed by several years working as a journeyman composito ...

(Lina, 2004) * Eric Gill (

Gill Sans Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground. ...

, Perpetua, both 1928; Joanna, 1937) * Phill Grimshaw (over 44 typefaces including Oberon, Hazel,

Gravura Gravura is a script typeface of the copperplate model designed by British type designer Phill Grimshaw Phill Grimshaw (1 February 1950 – 27 July 1998) was an English typeface designer and calligrapher who designed dozens of fonts for Letraset ...

, Obelisk, Klepto) * Robert Harling *

Rian Hughes Rian Hughes is a British graphic designer, illustrator, type designer, comics artist and novelist. Overviews Hughes has written and drawn comics for '' 2000 AD'', Vertigo CMYK and Batman: Black and White, and designed for DC Comics and Marvel ...

(Blackcurrant, Custard and numerous others released through Device) * Edward Johnston ( Johnston, 1916) *

Seb Lester Sebastian "Seb" Lester (born 1972 in London) is an English artist, type designer and calligrapher. Lester is notable for prominent type designs and calligraphic prints. He is also known for his videos of hand drawn calligraphy, often of famous bran ...

(Scene, Soho, Neo Sans and Neo Tech) * Bruno Maag (Tesco, Tottenham Hotspur, Telewest, Urban Splash, BT, BMW, Vodafone,

Nokia Pure Nokia Pure is a typeface designed by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag for Nokia. It was designed primarily for use in digital media, in Nokia devices, and mobile environments. It has been the company's main typeface since its introduction. ...

) Dalton Maag Type Design * Stanley Morison ( Times New Roman) *

Jeremy Tankard Jeremy Tankard is a British type designer. Tankard has designed retail fonts independently and for FontShop and Adobe. Corbel was designed for Microsoft and has been included in Microsoft Office and Windows since 2006. Tankard has also designed ...

( Bliss,

Corbel In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the s ...

Blue Island Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, located approximately south of Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood. The population was 22,558 ...

, 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 ITC Benguiat is a decorative serif typeface designed by Ed Benguiat and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1977. The face is loosely based upon typefaces of the Art Nouveau period but is not considered an academic reviva ...

) * Linn Boyd Benton (Century) * Morris Fuller Benton (America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 total typefaces, including:

Franklin Gothic Franklin Gothic and its related faces are a large family of sans-serif typefaces in the industrial or grotesque style developed in the early years of the 20th century by the type foundry American Type Founders (ATF) and credited to its head desig ...

, Century Schoolbook,

News Gothic News Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the grotesque or industrial style. It was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and released in 1908 by his employer American Type Founders (ATF). News Gothic is similar in proportion and structure to Franklin ...

, Bank Gothic) * Lucian Bernhard (

Bernhard Modern Bernhard Modern is a modern style classification serif typeface designed by Lucian Bernhard in 1937 for the American Type Founders (ATF). Lucian Bernhard's Bernhard Modern typeface was the ATF's response to the many popular old-style engraving f ...

) * Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design ( Lucida family) * Joseph Blumenthal, (Spiral, Emerson) *

William H. Bradley William Henry Bradley (July 10, 1868 – January 25, 1962) was an American Art Nouveau illustrator and artist. Nicknamed the "Dean of American Designers" by ''The Saturday Evening Post'', he was the highest-paid American artist of the early 20 ...

* Sheila Levrant de Bretteville *

Jackson Burke Jackson Burke (1908 in San Francisco, California – 1975) was an American type and book designer. After studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he succeeded C.H. Griffith as Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler Linotyp ...

(Trade Gothic, 1948) * Leslie Cabarga (Magneto, Bad Typ, Casey, Streamline, Raceway)"Of Type & Lettering with Leslie Cabarga,"
''DT&G'' magazine. Accessed Dec. 10, 2016. * Warren Chappell ( Lydian series) *

Thomas Maitland Cleland Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964) was an American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer. Early life and education Thomas Maitland Cleland was born August 18, 1880 in Brooklyn, New York. Cleland stu ...

( Della Robbia) * Vincent Connare (Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Magpie) * Oswald Bruce 'Oz' Cooper ( Cooper Black, 1921) *

Rick Cusick Rick Cusick is an American lettering artist, calligrapher, type designer and book designer. Career Cusick began his lettering career designing illuminated signs for Ad/Art, Inc. in his hometown of Stockton, California, followed by study at Ar ...

(Nyx) * Joshua Darden (Freight, Omnes) *

Chank Diesel Chank Diesel, also known as Charles R. Andermack (née Anderson), 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 S ...

* Lawrence O'Donnell (Seglimint, 2006) * Michael Doret (Metroscript, Deliscript, DeLuxe Gothic, Orion MD, PowerStation) * William Addison Dwiggins (36 completed typefaces including Electra,

Caledonia Caledonia (; ) was the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to the part of Great Britain () that lies north of the River Forth, which includes most of the land area of Scotland. Today, it is used as a romantic or poetic name for all ...

, Metro) *

Tobias Frere-Jones Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones; August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program. Among his ty ...

(Interstate, Gotham, Reactor, plus numerous custom designs for publications including the ''Wall Street Journal'', ''GQ'', ''Esquire'', ''New York Times'' Magazine) *

Sidney Gaunt Sidney Clyde Gaunt (c. 1874 - 1932) was an American type designer and artist. He was a prolific producer of type designs while "shop artist" for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry. He had his own studio in New ...

(46 typefaces including Adstyle, Pencraft) *

William S. Gillies William S. Gillies (born 1911, San Francisco – d. 2000) 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 Myster ...

(Gillies Light, Gillies Bold) * Zuzana Licko (Filosofia, Triplex, Mrs Eaves etc.) * Bertram Goodhue (

Cheltenham Cheltenham (), also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort, following the discovery of mineral s ...

) * Frederic Goudy (90 completed typefaces including: Copperplate, 1905;

Goudy Old Style Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is an Serif#Old-style, old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic Goudy, Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in 1915. Suitable for text and display applications, Goudy Old Styl ...

, 1915; Berkeley Oldstyle, 1938) *

Chauncey H. Griffith Chauncey H. Griffith (1879–1956) was an American printer and typeface designer. Griffith was born in a small town near Ironton, Ohio, and began his career as a compositor and pressman in Lexington, Kentucky, where his family moved when he was ...

(34 typefaces including

Bell Gothic Bell Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the Sans-serif#Grotesque, industrial or grotesque style designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1938 while heading the typographic development program at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The typeface was Joh ...

, 1937; Poster Bodoni, 1938) *

Victor Hammer Victor Karl Hammer (December 9, 1882 – July 8, 1967) was an Austrian-born American painter, sculptor, printer, and typographer. Early life and education Hammer was born in Vienna, Austria to Karl and Maria (Fuhrmann) Hammer. He began his a ...

(American Uncial) *

Sol Hess Sol Hess (born 1886, Philadelphia, PA – d. 1953) 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 manag ...

(house designer for Lanston Monotype Company where he completed 85 typefaces) * 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 Susan Kare ( "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at ...

(original Apple Macintosh typeface, 1984) *

Richard Kegler Richard Kegler is an American typographer and founding partner of P22 type foundry, which originated in 1994 as an outgrowth of his Master's thesis project on Marcel Duchamp. Kegler's background in typography and book arts includes ventures in ...

* Donald Knuth (Computer Modern) * Raph Levien (Inconsolata, Museum, Century Catalogue) *

Harold Lohner Harold Lohner (born 1958 in Schenectady, New York) is an American printmaker and designer of freeware and shareware fonts. Lohner has designed over 100 typefaces, and has licensed some of his shareware designs to the non-profit organization A ...

* Herb Lubalin (Lubalin Graph) * Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (Ultra-Modern Roman) *

R. Hunter Middleton Robert Hunter Middleton (May 6, 1898 – August 3, 1985) was an American book designer, painter, and typeface designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland he came to Chicago in 1908 where he studied at the School of the Art Institute. He joined the des ...

(99 typefaces including: Stellar, Coronet,

Stencil Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface, by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object, to create a pattern or image on a surface, by allowing the pigment to reach ...

, Delphian, Umbra ) * James Montalbano (Clearview) *

William Dana Orcutt William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953) was an American book designer, typeface designer, historian, and author. Biography Career William Dana Orcutt was an important book and typeface designer in Boston, an important printing and bookmaking center, in th ...

(Humanistic) * Wadsworth A. Parker (Lexington, Gallia) * Jim Parkinson *

Joseph W. Phinney Joseph Warren Phinney (born 1848, Nantucket – d. 1934) 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, event ...

(Abbott Old Style, Cloister Black (with M.F. Benton), Camelot (with F. Goudy)) *

Will Ransom Will Ransom (1878 – 24 May 1955) was an American graphic designer, letterer, typeface designer, and the foremost bibliographer of private presses. Youth and early career Born in St. Louis, Michigan, Ransom grew up in Snohomish, Washington and ...

(Parsons) * Bruce Rogers (Centaur) *

Rudolph Ruzicka Rudolph Ruzicka (29 June 1883 – 20 July 1978) was a Czech American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Pre ...

(Fairfield) * Stefan Sagmeister (Sagmeister, Inc.) *

Christian Schwartz Christian Schwartz (born December 30, 1977 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States) is an American type designer. He has been awarded the German Design Award and the Prix Charles Peignot. Life A graduate of the Communication Design program at ...

(

Neutraface Neutraface is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Christian Schwartz for House Industries, an American digital type foundry. It was influenced by the work of architect Richard Neutra and was developed with the assistance of Neutra's so ...

, Amplitude, Guardian Egyptian) * Tré Seals (Vocal Type Co. Martin, Bayard, Carrie) * Ralph Fletcher Seymour (private typefaces for his Alderbrink Press) * Robert Slimbach (Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier) * Sara Soskolne (Gotham with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones) * Sumner Stone (Stone Sans, Stone Serif, Stone Informal, Stone Print, Cycles) *

Ilene Strizver Ilene 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 4th edition. Life and career Stri ...

* Tommy Thompson (titling series for

Saturday Evening Post ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely c ...

and Colliers) *

Carol Twombly Carol Twombly (born June 13, 1959) is an American designer, best known for her type design. 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, in ...

(Lithos, Myriad (co-designer), Trajan, Charlemagne, Nueva, Adobe Caslon) *

Frederic Warde Frederic Warde (July 29, 1894 – July 31, 1939) was a book designer, editor, and typography designer. One of the great book designers of the twentieth century, Will Ransom described him as "a curious blend of romantic idealism and meticulous ...

( Arrighi) * Robert Wiebking (31 typefaces as a designer, including: Artcraft, Munder, Advertisers Gothic. Many more as a punch-cutter.) * Doyald Young (Young Baroque, Eclat) * Ross F. George (Sign Painter and type designer)

References

External links

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Typophile: Type Designers list

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