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
Otl Aicher Otto Arpke John Baskerville Walter Baum Peter Behrens Morris Fuller Benton Max Bill Giambattista Bodoni Hans Bohn Irma Boom Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf Neville Brody David Carson (graphic designer) William Caslon Cassandre (1901–1968) Firmin Didot Franz Ehrlich Jakob Erbar Adrian Frutiger Pierre Simon Fournier Claude Garamond Eric Gill Francesco Griffo Lucas de Groot Victor Hammer Nicolas Jenson Edward Johnston Max Miedinger Stanley Morison William Morris Aldo Novarese Albert-Jan Pool Paul Renner Emil Ruder Joost Schmidt Paul Schuitema Francesco Torniello Johann Friedrich Unger Wolfgang Weingart Berthold Wolpe Hermann Zapf Piet Zwart Klingspor-Museum
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