List of type designers
A type designer, sometimes mistakenly called a typographer, is a person who designs typefaces. 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.
Africa
Australia
Brazil
Colombia
- Manuel Corradine
- Carlos Fabián Camargo
- Viviana Monsalve
- César Puertas
Canada
Czechia
France
Germany
- Otto Arpke (Taiko)
- Johann Christian Bauer (Fette Fraktur)
- Konrad Friedrich Bauer (Fortune)
- Walter Baum (Fortune)
- Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic)
- Peter Behrens (Bahrens-Schrift)
- Georg Belwe (Belwe Roman)
- Jakob Erbar (Erbar, Candida, Feder Grotesk, Koloss)
- Johann Michael Fleischman (Fleischman)
- Johann Gutenberg
- Karlgeorg Hoefer (Elegance, Permanent)
- Heinrich Jost (Aeterna)
- Erhard Kaiser (DTL Fleischmann, DTL Prokyon)
- Rudolf Koch (Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch)
- Helmut Matheis (Charme, Compliment, Mathies Mobil, Primadonna, Slogan)
- Friedrich Poppl (Poppl-Pontifex, 1974; Laudatio, 1982)
- Paul Renner (Futura, 1927)
- Johannes Schweitzer (Dominante)
- K. Sommer (Dynamo)
- Erik Spiekermann (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit and others)
- Herbert Thannhaeuser (Adastra)
- Georg Trump (Trump Mediaeval)
- Jan Tschichold (Sabon)
- Kurt Weidemann (ITC Weidemann, Biblica, Corporate ASE)
- Hans Wagner (Welt, Wolfram)
- Carlos Winkow designer for the Nacional Typefoundry of Madrid
- Berthold Wolpe (Albertus)
- Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (Diotima, Alcuin)
- Hermann Zapf (Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino)
India
- R K Joshi (Indic Scripts for Microsoft)
- S K Mohanty(Indic Scripts Type Design)
- Hashim P M (25 Typeface designs in Malayalam, 1 in Roman and 5 Symbol typefaces)
- Hussain K H (Malayalam Unicode fonts named Rachana and Meera)
- Hiran Venugopalan (Dyuthi, Ornamental Malayalam Unicode font, 2 Latin fonts named Perizia and Rufscript)
- Satya Rajpurohit (Fedra Hindi, 2009; Kohinoor Devanagari, 2010; Kohinoor Latin, 2010; Kohinoor Tamil, 2010)
- Manoj Kumar Choudhury ( Lead Font Designer, Type Design )
Italy
- Raffaello Bertieri (Inkunabula, Paganini)
- Giambattista Bodoni (Bodoni)
- Alessandro Butti (Microgramma, Rondine)
- Francesco Griffo (Bembo, Poliphilus)
- Aldus Manutius
- Giulio da Milano (Neon, Razionale, Veltro)
- Aldo Novarese (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 Bloemsma (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 Crouwel (Catalogue, Fodor, Gridnik, New Alphabet, Stedelijk)
- Christoffel van Dijck (Monotype Van Dijck, Hollander and DTL Elzevir are based on his designs)
- Bram de Does (TEFF Trinité, TEFF Lexicon)
- Gerben Dollen (Actium)
- Lucas de Groot (Thesis, TheAntiqua, Corpid, Calibri)
- Sem Hartz (Monotype Juliana)
- 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)
- Christoph Noordzij (TEFF Collis)
- Gerrit Noordzij (TEFF Burgundica, TEFF Ruse)
- S.H. de Roos (aka Sjoerd de Roos (Hollandsche Mediæval, Grotius, Egmont, Libria, De Roos, Zilvertype)
- Artur Schmal (OT Parry, OT Parry Grotesque)
- 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)
- Albert-Jan Pool (FF DIN, URW Imperial, URW Linear, Mauritius I, FF OCR-F, Jet Set Sans, DTL HEIN GAS, Regenbogen Bold)
New Zealand
Poland
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)
Serbia
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
- Akke Kumlien (Kumlien Medieval)
- Karl-Erik Forsberg (Berling, Lunda, Carolus, Ericus, Gustavus, Polhem, Carolina Script, Aros Antiqua, and more)
- Bo Berndal (Sispos and Sisneg. Old Swedish standard (SIS 030011, 1973) for public road signs, displays, etc.)
- Franko Luin
Switzerland
Thailand
United Kingdom
- Charles Robert Ashbee (Endevour, Prayer Book)
- Richard Austin (Bel, Porson)
- Phil Baines (Can You?, Vere Dignum)
- Paul Barnes (Guardian Egyptian, with Christian Schwartz, 2005)
- Jonathan Barnbrook (Mason, Exocet, 1996 released through Emigre fonts, Nylon, Prototype, Bastarda)
- John Baskerville
- Neville Brody (Arcadia, 1986, Blur, Auto-Suggestion))
- Christopher Burke (type designer) (Pragma)
- 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)
- Timothy Donaldson (Humana, Postino)
- Phil Garnham (FS Rufus FS Conrad FS Sally) Fontsmith
- Eric Gill (Gill Sans, Perpetua, both 1928; Joanna, 1937)
- Gareth Hague (August, Elephant, Jackdaw, Metsys, Sister) Alias
- Robert Harling
- Ashley Havinden (Ashley Script, 1955, Ashley Inline, 1993)
- Justin Howes (Founder's Caslon, 1998)
- Rian Hughes (Blackcurrant, Custard and numerous others released through Device)
- Edward Johnston (Johnston, 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 Lester (Scene, Soho, Neo Sans and Neo Tech)
- Bruno Maag (Tesco, Tottenham Hotspur, Telewest, Urban Splash, BT, BMW, Vodafone) Dalton Maag Type Design
- Stanley Morison (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 Williams (Archi, Typewriter) A2 Type
- Walter Tracy (Jubilee, Adsans, Telegraph Modern, 1969 Times Europa, 1972)
United States
- Jill Bell (Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno, Swank)
- 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)
- David Berlow (Charcoal, Bureau Grotesque)
- Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic, Bernhard Modern)
- Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design (Lucida family)
- Roger Black Digital Type Designer Industry Pioneer
- Joseph Blumenthal, (Spiral, Emerson)
- Brian J. Bonislawsky
- Alfred R. Bosco (Romany)
- Philip Bouwsma
- William H. Bradley
- Mark van Bronkhorst (ITC Conduit, MVB Verdigris, MVB Embarcadero)
- Jackson Burke (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 Chappell, (Lydian series)
- Thomas Maitland Cleland (Della Robbia)
- Elizabeth Colwell (Colwell Handletter)
- Vincent Connare (Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Magpie)
- Oswald Bruce 'Oz' Cooper (Cooper Black, 1921)
- Freeman Craw (Ad Lib, Craw Clarendon)
- Carl Crossgrove (Mundo Sans, Biome, Beorcana)
- Nick Curtis (ITC Beeswax)
- Rick Cusick (Nyx)
- Joshua Darden
- Chuck Davis
- Whedon Davis (Franklin Gothic Condensed Italic)
- Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
- Chank Diesel
- Devon DeLapp
- Matt Desmond (Stomper)
- Ernest F. Detterer (Eusebius)
- Peter Dombrezian (Dom Casual)
- Jeremy Dooley (Aviano)
- Michael Doret (Metroscript, Deliscript, DeLuxe Gothic, Orion MD, PowerStation)
- William Addison Dwiggins (36 completed typefaces including Electra, Caledonia, Metro)
- William E. Fink (Greenwich)
- Robert Foster (Pericles)
- Tobias Frere-Jones (Interstate, Gotham, Reactor, plus numerous custom designs for publications including the Wall Street Journal, GQ, Esquire, NY Times Magazine)
- Sidney Gaunt (46 typefaces including Adstyle, Pencraft)
- 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)
- James Grieshaber
- Chauncey H. Griffith (34 typefaces including Bell Gothic, 1937; Poster Bodoni, 1938)
- Victor Hammer (American Uncial)
- Berton Hasebe
- George Hauser (Hauser Script)
- Cyrus Highsmith (Benton Sans, together with Tobias Frere-Jones)
- Sol Hess (house designer for Lanston Monotype Company where he completed 85 typefaces)
- Jonathan Hoefler (Knockout, Hoefler Text, Gotham, Archer, Sentinel, partner with Tobias Frere-Jones)
- Kris Holmes (Lucida)
- Paul D. Hunt
- Dard Hunter (private faces for his Mountain House Press)
- Dard Hunter, Jr. (private faces for his father's Mountain House Press)
- Walter Huxley (Huxley Vertical)
- Susan Kare (original Apple Macintosh typeface, 1984)
- Max R. Kaufmann (Kaufmann Script, Balloon)
- Richard Kegler
- Donald Knuth (Computer Modern)
- Carl Stephen Junge (Swagger Capitals)
- Jess Latham (Shimmer, Pink Martini)
- Kent Lew (Whitman)
- Patricia Lillie
- Richard Lipton (Arrus, Bremen)
- Herb Lubalin (Lubalin Graph)
- Richard N. McArthur (Old Dutch)
- Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (Ultra-Modern Roman)
- R. Hunter Middleton (99 typefaces including: Stellar, Coronet, Stencil, Delphian, Umbra )
- James Montalbano (Clearview)
- Dave Nalle (Abaddon, Hesperides, Ligeia, Ironworks, Folkard)
- William Dana Orcutt (Humanistic)
- Hrant H. Papazian
- Wadsworth A. Parker (Lexington, Gallia)
- Jim Parkinson
- Robert Petrick
- Joseph W. Phinney (Abbott Old Style, Cloister Black (with M.F. Benton), Camelot (with F. Goudy))
- Gerry Powell (Onyx, Stencil)
- Will Ransom (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 Ruzicka (Fairfield)
- Stefan Sagmeister (Sagmeister, Inc.)
- Stuart Sandler (Leisure Script)
- Michael Scarpitti (typeface based on Latin inscriptions)
- Christian Schwartz (Neutraface, Amplitude, Guardian Egyptian)
- Ralph Fletcher Seymour (private typefaces for his Alderbrink Press)
- Mark Simonson (Proxima Nova, Coquette, Mostra Nuova)
- Robert Slimbach (Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier)
- Dan X. Solo
- Brian Sooy
- Robert E. Smith (Park Avenue, Brush)
- Willard T. Sniffin (Nubian, Rivoli, Piranesi)
- Sara Soskolne (Gotham with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones)
- Tony Stan (ITC Century)
- Sumner Stone (Stone Sans, Stone Serif, Stone Informal, Stone Print, Cycles)
- Ilene Strizver
- Neil Summerour (Aaux, Baka, Epic, Organic )
- Judith Sutcliffe
- Tommy Thompson (titling series for Saturday Evening Post and Colliers)
- Christina Torre
- Howard Allen Trafton (Trafton Script, Cartoon)
- George F. Trenholm (Trenholm Oldstyle)
- Carol Twombly (Lithos, Myriad (co-designer), Trajan, Charlemagne, Nueva, Adobe Caslon)
- Frederic Warde (Arrighi)
- Jim Wasco (Elegy, Harmonia Sans, Mythos)
- Robert Wiebking (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 Young (Young Baroque, Eclat)
- John Zimmermann (head matrix maker for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry)
- John Hudson (Gabriola)
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