Tag Archive: Type Designers

• David Hebrew: The First Multi-Style Hebrew Typeface Family

  Ismar David was a remarkable type designer who began creating an innovative Hebrew typeface design in the 1930s. The resulting multi-style family contained features that would be considered ground breaking for decades…

• Trump Mediaeval: The Story of its Creation

  Trump Mediaeval is one of those versatile typefaces that book designers turn to when they want something decidedly different from the usual book types (Garamond et al.). Norbert Krausz tells the story…

• Frederic Warde: New York State of Mind

  The book and type designer Frederic Warde is little more than a phantom in most histories of type, known only for creating the typeface Arrighi, and for being the husband of the…

• The Scribe and the Silhouette

  Rudolf Koch (1876–1934) was an artist-craftsman of tremendous capabilities and one of the great type designers of the twentieth century. As a scribe, he created works in blackletter of such breathtaking energy…

• Searching for Morris Fuller Benton

  The twentieth century went by with little being written about one of America’s most important type designers. The information on Morris Fuller Benton remained scant, partially because his work stood outside of…

• Giambattista Bodoni: Biografia

  A concise biography of one of the most prolific type makers and printers of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here is Bodoni’s life in brief, year by year, in which his…

• The Story of Perpetua

  The story of the Perpetua typeface (and Felicity Italic) is one of ideology, politics, commerce and creativity. The thread which runs through it all is the collaboration between two passionate and headstrong…

• The Experimental Type Designs of William Addison Dwiggins

  A thorough and interesting dissertation about the lesser-known type designs from the man who brought us Electra, Metro, Caledonia and the term “graphic design.” Tiffany Wardle provides us with a brief biography…

• Oldrich Menhart: Calligrapher, Type Designer and Craftsman

  This extensive dissertation presents the versatile work of the great Czech calligrapher and type designer Oldrich Menhart in his most unique and interesting period between 1930 and 1948. (This is a large…

• Jan van Krimpen

  The story of a personal encounter with the great Dutch designer Jan van Krimpen and a look at his first major typeface design, Lutetia.