Typeface Designers
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Adrian Frutiger
Adrian Frutiger was born in 1928 at Unterseen near Interlaken, Switzerland. After an apprenticeship as a compositor, he continued his training in type and graphics at the Zurich School of…
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Stefan Hattenbach
Stefan Hattenbach (b. 1961) is an espresso-fueled art director and graphic designer specializing in type and logo solutions. After two decades in the industry, a third of that running his…
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Jackson Burke
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…
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Joy Redick
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Robert Besley
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Carl Crossgrove
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Carol Twombly
Carol Twombly (born 1959) is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe…
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Kim Buker Chansler
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Matthew Carter
Trained in the Netherlands, Matthew Carter is responsible for some of the most famous modern typefaces, including Tahoma, Bell Centennial, Snell Roundhand, New Century Schoolbook, Georgia, and Verdana. (The latter…
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Mark Simonson
Mark Simonson started his career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1976. Early on, he worked as an art director on a number of national magazines and other publications.…