A type designer is a person who designs typefaces. Some type designers are employed by type foundries, or operate them. Others work independently. A partial list of type designers follows by country, with a signature typeface or two for significant designers. Schools of type design sometimes developed in specific western nations, but type design generally has not been defined by nationality.
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
Cuba
Czech Republic
Ethiopia
France
Germany
- Johann Michael Fleischman (Fleischman)
- Johann Gutenberg
- Erhard Kaiser (DTL Fleischmann, DTL Prokyon)
- Rudolf Koch (Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch)
- Friedrich Poppl (Poppl-Pontifex, 1974; Laudatio, 1982)
- Paul Renner (Futura, 1927)
- Erik Spiekermann (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit and others)
- Jan Tschichold (Sabon)
- Kurt Weidemann (ITC Weidemann, Biblica, Corporate ASE)
- Berthold Wolpe (Albertus)
- Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (Diotima, Alcuin)
- Hermann Zapf (Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino)
Hungary
India
- S.K. Mohanty (Indic scripts Type Design & Bhutanese, Tibetan, Sinhalese scripts Type Design)
Ireland
Italy
- Giambattista Bodoni (Bodoni)
- Giovanni de Faccio (Rialto)
- Piero De Macchi (Iveco, Nomina, Graphicus, Pancarré, Exemplar)
- Umberto Fenocchio (Linea, Sigla, Armonia)
- Giangiorgio Fuga (GFT Venexiano, GFT Murrina, GFT Lespresso Sans)
- Francesco Griffo, Aldus Manutius (Bembo, Poliphilus)
- Aldo Novarese (Novarese, Eurostile, Fenice, Recta, Microgramma, ...)
Mexico
Netherlands
- Wim Crouwel
- Christoffel van Dijck (Monotype Van Dijck, Hollander and DTL Elzevir are based on his designs)
- Bram de Does (Trinité, Lexicon)
- Lucas de Groot (Thesis, TheAntiqua, Corpid, Calibri)
- Sem Hartz (Monotype Juliana)
- Jan van Krimpen (Spectrum, Romanée, Romulus, Haarlemmer, Lutetia, Cancellaresca Bastarda)
- Martin Majoor (FF Scala, FF Scala Sans, FF Seria, FF Seria Sans, FF Nexus Serif, FF Nexus Sans, FF Nexus Mix)
- Gerrit Noordzij (Ruse)
- Sjoerd de Roos (Hollandsche Mediæval, Grotius, Egmont, Libria, De Roos, Zilvertype)
- Fred Smeijers (OurType Arnhem, Fresco, Sansa, DTL Nobel, TEFF Renard, FF Quadraat)
- Gerard Unger (Swift, Hollander DTL Paradox, DTL Argo, Capitoleum, Flora, Praxis, Vesta, Big Vesta,)
- Albert-Jan Pool (FF DIN, URW Imperial, URW Linear, Mauritius I, FF OCR-F, Jet Set Sans, DTL HEIN GAS, Regenbogen Bold)
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
Dino dos Santos
Serbia
Slovakia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
United Kingdom
- Paul Barnes (Guardian Egyptian, with Christian Schwartz, 2005)
- Jonathan Barnbrook (Mason, Exocet,1996 released through Emigre fonts, Nylon, Prototype, Bastarda)
- John Baskerville
- Neville Brody (Arcadia, 1986)
- Matthew Carter (Snell Roundhand, 1965; Shelley Script, 1972; Galliard, 1978; Skia, Georgia, Mantinia, all 1993; Verdana, 1996; Tahoma, 1999)
- William Caslon (Caslon)
- Roy Cole (Lina, 2004)
- Timothy Donaldson (Humana, Postino)
- Eric Gill (Gill Sans, Perpetua, both 1928; Joanna, 1937)
- Robert Harling (typographer)
- Ashley Havinden (Ashley Script, 1955, Ashley Inline, 1993)
- Justin Howes (Founder's Caslon, 1998)
- Edward Johnston (Johnston, 1916)
- Stanley Morison (Times New Roman)
- Jason Smith (BBC1, ITV, Channel 4)
- Bruno Maag (Tesco, Tottenham Hotspur, Telewest, Urban Splash, BT, BMW, Vodafone) Dalton Maag Type Design
United States
- Bill Bailey (HP Postnet barcode, 1986; Cyrillic Script typefaces in HP printers, 1997 drawn for Agfa-Monotype (now Monotype Corporation); MICRDIMM E13B, CMC-7, 1997; UPS Maxicode as a typeface, 1998)
- Kevin Bailey (ITC Bailey Sans family, and supporting display font ITC Bailey Quad Bold 1996; ITC Liverpool 1999)
- Ken Barber
- Morris Fuller Benton (Franklin Gothic, Century Schoolbook, News Gothic, Bank Gothic)
- David Berlow (Charcoal, Bureau Grotesque)
- Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design (Lucida family)
- Roger Black Digital Type Industry Pioneer
- Brian J. Bonislawsky
- Philip Bouwsma
- Mark van Bronkhorst
- Jackson Burke (Trade Gothic, 1948)
- Leslie Cabarga
- Tom Carnase (Busorama, 1970)
- Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos (Alembic, Eidetic Neo, Faceplate Sans)
- Vincent Connare(comic sans, trebuchet, magpie)
- Oswald Cooper (Cooper Black)
- Carl Crossgrove (Mundo Sans)
- Nick Curtis (ITC Beeswax)
- Joshua Darden
- Chuck Davis
- Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
- Chank Diesel
- Devon DeLapp
- Matt Desmond (Stomper)
- Peter Dombrezian (Dom Casual)
- Michael Doret (Bank Gothic AS, Metroscript, Orion MD, PowerStation)
- William Addison Dwiggins (Electra, Caledonia, Metro)
- 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; Berkeley Oldstyle, 1938)
- Chauncey H. Griffith (Bell Gothic, 1937; Poster Bodoni, 1938)
- Cyrus Highsmith (Benton Sans, together with Tobias Frere-Jones)
- Jonathan Hoefler (Knockout, Hoefler Text, partner with Tobias Frere-Jones)
- Kris Holmes (Lucida)
- Paul D. Hunt
- Susan Kare (original Apple Macintosh fonts, 1984)
- Richard Kegler
- Donald Knuth (Computer Modern)
- Jess Latham (Shimmer, Pink Martini)
- Kent Lew (Whitman)
- Patricia Lillie
- Herb Lubalin (Lubalin Graph)
- Robert Hunter Middleton (Stellar)
- James Montalbano (Clearview)
- Dave Nalle (Abaddon, Hesperides, Ligeia, Ironworks, Folkard)
- Eric Olson
- Hrant H. Papazian
- Jim Parkinson
- Joseph W. Phinney (Abbott Old Style, Cloister Black (with M.F. Benton), Camelot (with F. Goudy))
- Tim Rolands
- David J. Ross (Manicotti)
- Stuart Sandler (Leisure Script)
- Michael Scarpitti
- Christian Schwartz (Neutraface, Amplitude, Guardian Egyptian)
- Mark Simonson
- Robert Slimbach (Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier)
- Dan X. Solo
- Brian Sooy
- Sumner Stone (Stone Sans, Stone Serif, Stone Informal, Stone Print, Cycles)
- Ilene Strizver
- Neil Summerour (Aaux, Baka, Epic, Organic )
- Judith Sutcliffe
- Christina Torre
- Carol Twombly (Lithos, Myriad (co-designer), Trajan, Charlemagne, Nueva, Adobe Caslon)
- Jim Wasco (Mythos)
- George Williams (Caslon Roman, Monospace)
- Delve Withrington (Blot Test)
- Doyald Young (Young Baroque, Eclat)
- Stephen Sagmeister (Sagmeister, Inc.)
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