List of type designers
A type designer is someone who designs typefaces. Some type designers are employed by or operate type foundries others may be independent. A partial list of type designers—with a signature typeface or two noted—follows by country, as schools of font design often developed in specific nations.
See also: Typographers
Canada
- Robert Bringhurst
- chester
- Gerald Giampa
- Patrick Giasson
- Ray Larabie
- Rod McDonald
- Ross Mills
- Jim Rimmer
- Nick Shinn (Brown, FF Fontesque, Walburn)
Cuba
- Carlos Segura Cuba
France
- Antoine Augereau
- Alexandre de Berny
- Pierre Bézier
- Albert Boton
- Louis Braille
- Camut
- Charles Nicolas Cochin
- Simon de Colines
- Jean-Renaud Cuaz
- François Didot
- François-Ambroise Didot
- Henri Didot
- Pierre Didot
- Xavier Dupré
- Roger Excoffon
- François Fournier
- Jean Claude Fournier
- Pierre Simon Fournier le jeune
- Claude Garamond (Garamond)
- Raymond Gid
- Robert Granjon
- Hector Guimard
- François Guyot
- Pierre Haultin
- Jean Jannon
- Nicolas Jenson
- Molé-le-Jeune
- Charles Peignot
- Gustave Peignot
- Louis Perrin
- Christophe Plantin
- Charles Plumet
- Jean François Porchez
- Thierry Puyfoulhoux
- Jacques Sabon
- Firmin Didot
- Jean Francois Porchez
- Wynkyn de Worde
Germany
- Johann Gutenberg
- Rudolf Koch (Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Goticsh)
- Paul Renner
- Erik Spiekermann
- Jan Tschichold (Sabon)
- Berthold Wolpe (Albertus)
Hungary
India
- S.K. Mohanty (Indic Fonts)
Ireland
- Michael Everson (Duibhlinn, Everson Mono, Last Resort)
Italy
- Giambattista Bodoni (Bodoni)
- Aldus Manutius
- Aldo Novarese (Novarese, Eurostile)
Netherlands
Serbia
Slovakia
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
- John Baskerville
- Neville Brody (Arcadia, 1986)
- Matthew Carter (Skia, Georgia, both 1993)
- William Caslon (Caslon)
- Timothy Donaldson (Humana, Postino)
- Eric Gill (Gill Sans, 1928 )
- Ashley Havinden (Ashley Script, 1955, Ashley Inline, 1993)
- Edward Johnston (Johnston, 1916, Perpetua, 1926)
- Stanley Morison (Times New Roman)
- Marcus McCallion
United States
- Kevin Bailey (ITC Bailey Sans family, and supporting display font ITC Bailey Quad Bold 1996; ITC Liverpool 1999)
- Ken Barber
- Morris Fuller Benton (Hobo, Broadway)
- David Berlow (Charcoal, Bureau Grotesque)
- Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design (Lucida family)
- Roger Black
- Brian J. Bonislawsky
- Philip Bouwsma
- Mark van Bronkhorst
- Leslie Cabarga
- Mathew Carter (Galliard, Snell Roundhand, Verdana)
- Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos (Alembic, Eidetic Neo, Faceplate Sans)
- John Collins
- Oswald Cooper (Cooper Black)
- Carl Crossgrove (Mundo Sans)
- Nick Curtis (ITC Beeswax)
- Joshua Darden
- Chuck Davis
- Chank Deisel
- Matt Desmond (Stomper)
- William Addison Dwiggins
- Michael Everson (Everson Mono Unicode)
- Tobias Frere Jones (Interstate, Gotham, Reactor, plus numerous custom designs for publications including the Wall Street Journal, GQ, Esquire, NY Times Magazine)
- Frederic Goudy (Copperplate, 1905; Goudy Old Style, 1915)
- Cyrus Highsmith
- Jonathan Hoefler (Knockout, Hoefler Text, partner with Tobias Frere Jones)
- Susan Kare (original Apple Macintosh fonts, 1984)
- Richard Kegler
- Donald Knuth (Computer Modern)
- Jess Latham (Shimmer, Pink Martini)
- Kent Lew
- Patricia Lillie
- Herb Lubalin
- Eric Olson
- Hrant H. Papazian
- Jim Parkinson
- Tim Rolands
- Stuart Sandler (Leisure Script)
- Christian Schwartz (Neutraface)
- Mark Simonson
- Robert Slimbach (Minion, Adobe Trajan)
- Dan X. Solo
- Brian Sooy
- Sumner Stone (Stone)
- Ilene Strizver
- Judith Sutcliffe
- Christina Torre
- Carol Twombly (Lithos, Myriad)
- Jim Wasco (Mythos)
- Delve Withrington (Blot Test)
- Doyald Young (Young Baroque, Eclat)
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