Jackson Burke
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Jackson Burke (San Francisco, California 1908 – 1975) was a book designer who succeeded C.H. Griffith as Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler-Linotype from 1948 until 1963. He designed the Trade Gothic, Majestic and Aurora typefaces (among others) during this time.
He was also responsible for a number of other achievements at Mergenthaler-Linotype including:
- development of fonts for native American languages
- development of the TeleTypesetting System (TTS) for magazine use
- development and implementation of the first phase of Linotype Group’s photocomposition library
