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(The term "typographer" is sometimes misapplied to type designers: a typographer is a person who arranges existing typefaces to lay out a page – see typography) A partial list of notable type designers follows by country, with a signature typeface (or two for significant designers).
Pages in category "American typographers and type designers" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The young type designers of the pre-war era, among them Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, rejected both the late typographical classicism and the ornaments of the popular art nouveau. The new ideal became a tidy and straightforward book typography, which dedicated itself to the ideas of the Renaissance.
Pages in category "English typographers and type designers" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Matthew Carter CBE RDI (born 1 October 1937) is a British type designer. [1] [2] A 2005 New Yorker profile described him as 'the most widely read man in the world' by considering the amount of text set in his commonly used typefaces.
The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process. Type design is a closely related craft, sometimes considered part of typography; most typographers do not design typefaces, and some type designers do not consider themselves typographers.
Typographers and type designers by nationality (33 C) T. Typographers of Arabic script (4 P) Pages in category "Typographers and type designers"
After Siegel finished his studies at Stanford and was interested in entering the field of typography, he told Zapf his idea of making a typeface with a large number of glyph variations and wanted to start with an example of Zapf's calligraphy, which had been reproduced in a publication of the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago.