List of type designers
This list contains the names of important individuals alive or dead typographers. If these typographers as a type designer (English: Type Designer) worked or are, the most important of them designed fonts are also noted in italics.
A
- Aicher, Otl (Font: Rotis )
- Arpke, Otto ( writings: Arpke Antiqua )
B
- Baskerville, John (fonts: Baskerville )
- Bauer, Johann Christian
- Bauer, Konrad Friedrich ( writings: Folio, Imprimatur )
- Tree, Walter ( writings: Folio, Imprimatur )
- Baumeister, Willi
- Bayer, Herbert ( writings: Bayer - Type)
- Behrens, Peter (fonts: font Behrens, Behrens- fracture, Behrens- Antiqua )
- Benguiat, Ephram Edward ( writings: Benguiat, Souvenir)
- Benton, Linn Boyd
- Bernhard, Lucian ( writings: Lucian Bernhard Modern, Bernhard Antiqua, calligraphy, etc.)
- Berthold, Hermann
- Bill, Max
- Blumenthal, Joseph (fonts: Monotype Emerson )
- Bodoni, Giambattista (Font: Bodoni )
- Bohn, Hans ( writings: Mondial )
- Boom, Irma
- Breitkopf, Johann Gottlob Immanuel ( writings: Breitkopf Fraktur )
- Brody, Neville
C
- Caflisch, Max
- Carnase, Tom
- Carson, David
- Caslon, William (fonts: Caslon )
- Cassandre, A. M.
- Colines, Simon de
D
- Derriey, Charles
- Didot, Firmin
- Didot, Ambroise François
- Van Dijck, Christoffel
- Rowlocks, tanning ( writings: Actium )
- Dreyfus, John G.
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Dwiggins, William Addison ( writings: Metro Black Metro Lite)
E
- Ehmcke, Fritz Helmuth ( writings: Ehmcke Latin, fracture, rustication, and others)
- Ehrlich, Franz
- Erbar, Jacob ( writings: Candida, Erbar -Grotesk )
- Excoffon, Roger (Writings: choc, Mistral, Diane, Banco, Calypso, Antique Olive )
F
- Faulhaber, Erik (fonts: Frutiger Next, Compatil, Milano, Vialog )
- Fleischmann, Gerd
- Fleischmann, Johann Michael ( writings: Fleischmann Antiqua, Fleischmann Gothic Duyts )
- Frutiger, Adrian ( writings: Meridien, Univers, slab serif F, Concorde, Serifa, OCR-B, Roissy, Métro, Frutiger, Avenir )
- Fournier, Pierre Simon 1737 essay on " The Typographic standards'; (Fonts: variable types for the musical note print, Renaissance Antiqua, Fournier - Monotype )
G
- Garamond, Claude (fonts: Garamond )
- Gill, Eric ( writings: Gill Sans, Perpetua, Joanna )
- Goudy, Frederic William ( Fonts: Goudy [Old Style] )
- Grasset, Eugène (font: Grasset )
- Griffo, Francesco (fonts Bembo, Poliphilus Griffo )
- Groot, Lucas de ( writings: Thesis family [The Sans, The Mix, The Serif ], The Antiquarian, Sun, Mirror Sans, Corpid )
- Gutenberg, Johannes ( inventor of the printing press )
B
- Hammer, Victor ( writings: Hammer uncial, Samson, Pindar, American Uncial, Andromatique )
- House, Reinhard ( writings: Guardi )
- Heine, Frank
- Hochuli, Jost
I
- Isbell, Richard (fonts: Americana, Isbell )
- Ivir, Milo ( writings: Gotharda )
J
- Jannon, Jean ( baroque writings, forefather of some digital "Garamond " derivatives)
- Jenson, Nicolas ( writings: Jenson )
- Johnston, Edward ( writings: Hamlet -Type, Imprint )
K
- Kapr, Albert ( writings: Fist - Antiqua, fist - Italic, Leipziger Antiqua, Leipziger italic, Magma Cyrillic, Prillwitz roman and italic )
- Kish, Mikolós Tótfalusi ( writings: Kis Antiqua [ frequently incorrectly: Janson ] )
- Klingspor, Karl
- Koch, Rudolf ( typefaces Neuland, cable, Claudius, cooking fracture, Koch Antiqua, Wallau, Spring )
- Van Krimpen, Jan ( writings: Haarlemmermeer, Spectrum)
L
- Long, Günter Gerhard ( writings: Solemnis, Boulevard, Champion, Concorde, AG Book, Franklin - Antiqua, Berthold Script, Berthold Imago, Bodoni Old Face )
- Long, Karl -Heinz ( writings: " Publication " )
- Lutz, Hans -Rudolf (pictograms, calligraphy )
M
- Majoor, Martin
- Manutius, Aldus
- Mardersteig, Giovanni ( writings: Dante, Zeno, Griffo )
- Meier, Hans Eduard ( writings: Syntax )
- Medoza y Almeida, José ( writings: Pascal, PhotinaTM )
- Menhart, Aldrich
- Meyer, Erich
- Middleton, Robert Hunter ( writings: Eusebius, Delphian Open Title, Record Gothic, tempo )
- Miedinger, Max (fonts: Helvetica )
- Möllenstädt, Bernd (font: Formata )
- Morison, Stanley (fonts: Times New Roman)
- Morris, William
N
- Novarese, Aldo ( writings: Augustea, Microgramma, stop, Novarese )
P
- Plantin, Christopher
- Plata, Walter
- Pool, Albert -Jan (fonts: URW Imperial, URW Linear, URW Mauritius, FF DIN, FF OCR -F)
- Post, Herbert ( writings: Post-Antiqua, post - fracture, dynamics)
- Pott, Gottfried
- Prill Witz, Johann Carl Ludwig
R
- Reiner, Imre ( writings: Symphony, Corvinus )
- Renner, Paul (fonts: Futura, ballad, Renner Antiqua )
- Rogers, Bruce (Font: Centaur, Arrighi )
- Rohse, Otto
- Rowing, Emil
S
- Balances, Georg (font: Polo GST)
- Schmid, Helmut
- Schmidt, Wolfgang
- Schmidt, Joost
- Rhen Schmidt, Helmut
- Schneidler, Friedrich Hermann Ernst ( writings: Schneidler Schwabacher, Schneidler fracture, work -Latin, German - Roman legend, Centenary fracture, Schneidler - Mediaeval, Amalthea )
- Schoeffer, Peter ( "successor" Gutenberg )
- Schönsperger, Johann
- Schuitema, Paul
- Schwerdtner, Willy ( writings: Mundus)
- Schuele, Ilse ( writings: Rhapsody )
- Sichowsky, Richard of
- Slimbach, Robert (fonts: Adobe Garamond, Minion, Slimbach, Poetica, Myriad [ in collaboration with Carol Twombly ], Adobe Jenson )
- Spiekermann, Erik ( writings: Meta, Officina, Info, Unit, train Sans )
- Stone, Sumner ( writings: Stone Sans, Stone Informal, silica)
T
- Tiemann, Walter ( writings: Tiemann Mediaeval, Orpheus, Daphnis, Gothic, Tiemann - Antiqua, Kleist, Fichte Fraktur )
- Thannhaeuser, Herbert
- Torniello, Francesco ( published in 1517 the first written geometrical specification of a font for Latin characters )
- Tschichold, Jan ( Fonts: Sabon )
- Trump, George ( writings: City, Trump German, Schadow [ 1937-1945 ]; Dolphin [ 1951 I/1955 II] Trump Mediaeval [ 1954-1962 ], Codex, Time Script, Jaguar)
- Twombly, Carol ( writings: Lithos, Trajan, Charlemagne, Caslon [Adobe ], Myriad [ in collaboration with Robert Slimbach ] )
U
- Unger, Gerard ( writings: Demos, Clinic, Flora, Swift, Amerigo )
- Unger, Johann Friedrich ( writings: Unger- Fraktur )
W
- Wagner, Leonhard
- Walbaum, Justus Erich ( writings: Walbaum, Walbaum Fraktur )
- Weidemann, Kurt ( writings: Biblica / ITC Weidemann [ 1979/1983 ], Corporate ASE [ 1985-89 ] )
- Weingart, Wolfgang
- White, Emil Rudolf ( typefaces: White- Antiqua, Rundgotisch )
- Willenberg, Hans Peter
- Wolf, Rudolf ( typefaces: Memphis )
- Wolpe, Berthold ( writings: Hyperion, Albertus, Tempest, Saxony Forest, Pegasus, Decorata )
- Wunderlich, Gert ( writings: Antiqua 58, maxima )
Z
- Zapf, Hermann ( writings: Gilgen Gart, Palatino, Melior, Optima, Comenius, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino )
- Zapf-von Hesse, Gudrun ( writings: Diotima, Emerald, Ariadne, Shakespeare, Carmina, Nofret, Alcuin, Christiana, Colombine )
- Zwart, Piet