A–F
John Bielenberg
Reza Abedini
Otl Aicher
Alan Aldridge
John Alvin
Jeff Arwadi
Roberto Baldazzini
Jan Balet
Noma Bar
Jonathan Barnbrook
Saul Bass
Herbert Bayer
Harry Beck
Giambattista Bodoni
Alexey Brodovitch
Neville Brody
Robert Brownjohn
Dick Bruna
Peter Buchanan-Smith
Jon Burgerman
Margaret Calvert
David Carson
William Caslon
Urso Chappell
Vincent Connare
Wim Crouwel
Stanisław Czerski
Stanley Donwood
Eric Carle
Tom Eckersley
Friedrich Kurt Fiedler
Vittorio Fiorucci
Alan Fletcher
Adrian Frutiger
Shigeo Fukuda
G–M
Tom Geismar
Eric Gill
Milton Glaser
April Greiman
Catrin Große
Bugra Gulsoy
Shekhar Gurera (India)
Dave Halili (USA)
Baron Barrymore Halpenny
Steven Heller
Jon Hicks
Armin Hofmann
Julian House
Max Huber
Hans Hulsbosch
Angus Hyland
Mirko Ilić
Tariq Jakobsen
Kadington (France)
Susan Kare
Chip Kidd
Jock Kinneir
Tibor Kalman
Walter Landor
Poul Lange
John Lloyd
Herb Lubalin
John Maeda
Martin Majoor
Aldus Manutius
Oscar Mariné
Bruce Mau
Katherine McCoy
Philip B. Meggs
László Moholy-Nagy
Morteza Momayez
William Morris
Kate Moross
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Bruno Munari
N–Z
Erik Nitsche
Vaughan Oliver
Wally Olins
István Orosz
Robert L. Peters
Leif Podhajsky
Soundarya Rajinikanth
Paul Rand
Brandon Rike
Emil Ruder
Stefan Sagmeister
Louise Sandhaus
Peter Saville
Jan Sawka
Paula Scher
Ghobad Shiva
Erik Spiekermann
Hugh Syme
Storm Thorgerson
Jake Tilson
Jan Tschichold
Rudy VanderLans
James Victore
Massimo Vignelli
Wolfgang Weingart
Brian Webb
List of type designers
Argentina
Alejandro Paul[ar 1]
Ariel Garófalo[ar 2]
Claudio Pousada[ar 3]
Diego Giaccone[ar 4]
Rubén Fontana[ar 5]
Australia
Stephen Banham
Brazil
Eduardo Recife
Canada
Ian Brignell[1]
Gerald Giampa
Ray Larabie
Jim Rimmer
Nick Shinn (Brown, FF Fontesque, Walburn)
Czech Republic
Oldřich Menhart (Ceska Unciala)
František Štorm
Jan Rambousek (Brno Z)
Vojtěch Preissig
France
George Auriol (Auriol)
Pierre Bézier
Michel Bouvet
Louis Braille
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (Peignot, 1937)
Charles Nicolas Cochin
Simon de Colines
Firmin Didot
François Didot
François-Ambroise Didot
Henri Didot
Pierre Didot
Xavier Dupré
Roger Excoffon
Pierre Simon Fournier
Claude Garamond (Garamond)
Robert Granjon
Hector Guimard
Nicolas Jenson
Christophe Plantin
Jean-François Porchez
Jacques Sabon
Wynkyn de Worde
Germany
Otto Arpke (Taiko)
Johann Christian Bauer (Fette Fraktur)
Konrad Friedrich Bauer (Fortune)
Walter Baum (Fortune)
Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic)
Peter Behrens (Bahrens-Schrift)
Georg Belwe (Belwe Roman)
Jakob Erbar (Erbar, Candida, Feder Grotesk, Koloss)
Johann Gutenberg
Karlgeorg Hoefer (Elegance, Permanent)
Rudolf Koch (Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch)
Paul Renner (Futura, 1927)
Erik Spiekermann (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit and others)
Jan Tschichold (Sabon)
Carlos Winkow designer for the Nacional Typefoundry of Madrid
Berthold Wolpe (Albertus)
Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (Diotima, Alcuin)
Hermann Zapf (Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino)
India
R K Joshi (Indic Scripts)
Israel
Henri Friedlaender (Hadassah, Shalom, Hadar, Aviv)
Italy
Raffaello Bertieri (Inkunabula, Paganini)
Giambattista Bodoni (Bodoni)
Alessandro Butti (Microgramma, Rondine)
Francesco Griffo (Bembo, Poliphilus)
Aldus Manutius
Aldo Novarese (Novarese, Eurostile, Fenice, Recta, Microgramma, Stop, Expert, Magister, Garaldus, Normandia, Recta, Estro, ...)
Amoretti Brothers (Amoretti)
Netherlands
Evert Bloemsma (FF Balance, FF Cocon, FF Avance, FF Legato)
Wim Crouwel (Catalogue, Fodor, Gridnik, New Alphabet, Stedelijk)
Bram de Does (TEFF Trinité, TEFF Lexicon)
Lucas de Groot (Thesis, TheAntiqua, Corpid, Calibri)
Jan van Krimpen (Spectrum, Romanée, Romulus, Haarlemmer, Lutetia, Cancellaresca Bastarda)
Martin Majoor (FF Scala, FF Scala Sans, Telefont, FF Seria, FF Seria Sans, FF Nexus Serif, FF Nexus Sans, FF Nexus Mix)
Gerrit Noordzij (TEFF Burgundica, TEFF Ruse)
S.H. de Roos (aka 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 (Allianz, Amerigo, ANWB fonts, DTL Argo, Big Vesta, Capitoleum, Capitoleum News, Coranto, Decoder, Delftse Poort, Demos, Flora, Gulliver, Hollander, Markeur, M.O.L., Oranda, DTL Paradox, Praxis, Swift, Swift 2.0, 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
Joseph Churchward
Kris Sowersby
Jack Yan
Poland
Dariusz Nowak-Nova (Linotype Fresh Ewka, Linotype NoweAteny)
Łukasz Dziedzic (FFClan,[pl 1] FFGood,[pl 2] FFMore,[pl 3] FFPitu,[pl 4] FFMach,[pl 5] Lato, Ringo[pl 6])
Russia
Galina Bannikova (1901-1972)[ru 1][ru 2]
Alexey Chekulaev (b. 1949)[ru 3]
Valery Golyzhenkov[ru 4]
Yuri Gordon (b. 1958)[ru 5]
Elena Kowalski (b. 1986)[ru 6]
Ilya Davidovich Krichevsky (b. 1907)[ru 1][ru 7]
Nikolai Kudryashev (1909-1991)[ru 8]
Anatoliy Kudryavtsev (b. 1946)[ru 1][ru 9]
Pavel Kuzanyan (1901-1992)[ru 1][ru 10]
Vadim Lazursky (1909-1994)[ru 1][ru 11]
Mikhail Rovensky (1902-1996)[ru 1][ru 12]
Ilya Ruderman (b. 1979)[ru 13]
Tagir Safayev (b. 1950)[ru 14]
Isay Slutsker (1924-2002)[ru 1][ru 15]
Alexander Tarbeev (b. 1956)[ru 1][ru 16]
Solomon Telingater (1903-1969)[ru 1][ru 17]
Vladimir Yefimov (b. 1949-2012)[ru 1][ru 18]
Serbia
Hieromonk Makarije
Slovakia
Zuzana Licko (Mrs Eaves)
South Africa
Margaret Calvert (Transport)
Spain
Eudald Pradell, punchcutter.
Sweden
Akke Kumlien (Kumlien Medieval)
Karl-Erik Forsberg (Berling, Lunda, Carolus, Ericus, Gustavus, Polhem, Carolina Script, Aros Antiqua, and more)
Bo Berndal (Sispos and Sisneg. Old Swedish standard (SIS 030011, 1973) for public road signs, displays, etc.)
Franko Luin
Switzerland
Adrian Frutiger (Frutiger, Univers)
Max Miedinger (Helvetica)
Syria
Mamoun Sakkal (Shilia, Hasan Al Quds, Al-Futtaim)
Thailand
Anuthin Wongsunkakon
Turkey
Ahmet Altun (Harman, Festivo, Halis Grotesque)
Bülent Yüksel (Finalist Round Slab)
United Kingdom
Charles Robert Ashbee (Endevour, Prayer Book)
Richard Austin (Bel, Porson)
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, Blur, Auto-Suggestion))
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 (type designer) (Humana, Postino)
Eric Gill (Gill Sans, Perpetua, both 1928; Joanna, 1937)
Robert Harling
Rian Hughes (Blackcurrant, Custard and numerous others released through Device)
Edward Johnston (Johnston, 1916)
Seb Lester (Scene, Soho, Neo Sans and Neo Tech)
Bruno Maag (Tesco, Tottenham Hotspur, Telewest, Urban Splash, BT, BMW, Vodafone, Nokia Pure) Dalton Maag Type Design
Stanley Morison (Times New Roman)
Walter Tracy (Jubilee, Adsans, Telegraph Modern, 1969 Times Europa, 1972)
United States
Jill Bell (Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno, Swank)
Ed Benguiat (over 600 typefaces including Bookman, and ITC Benguiat)
Linn Boyd Benton (Century)
Morris Fuller Benton (America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 total typefaces, including: Franklin Gothic, Century Schoolbook, News Gothic, Bank Gothic)
Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic, Bernhard Modern)
Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design (Lucida family)
Joseph Blumenthal, (Spiral, Emerson)
William H. Bradley
Jackson Burke (Trade Gothic, 1948)
Warren Chappell, (Lydian series)
Thomas Maitland Cleland (Della Robbia)
Vincent Connare (Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Magpie)
Oswald Bruce 'Oz' Cooper (Cooper Black, 1921)
Rick Cusick (Nyx)
Chuck Davis
Stan Davis (Amelia, Control, Compromise etc.)
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Chank Diesel
Michael Doret (Metroscript, Deliscript, DeLuxe Gothic, Orion MD, PowerStation)
William Addison Dwiggins (36 completed typefaces including 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)
Sidney Gaunt (46 typefaces including Adstyle, Pencraft)
William S. Gillies (Gillies Light, Gillies Bold)
Bertram Goodhue (Cheltenham)
Frederic Goudy (90 completed typefaces including: Copperplate, 1905; Goudy Old Style, 1915; Berkeley Oldstyle, 1938)
Chauncey H. Griffith (34 typefaces including Bell Gothic, 1937; Poster Bodoni, 1938)
Victor Hammer (American Uncial)
Sol Hess (house designer for Lanston Monotype Company where he completed 85 typefaces)
Jonathan Hoefler (Knockout, Hoefler Text, Gotham, Archer, Sentinel, partner with Tobias Frere-Jones)
Kris Holmes (Lucida)
Dard Hunter (private faces for his Mountain House Press)
Susan Kare (original Apple Macintosh typeface, 1984)
Richard Kegler
Donald Knuth (Computer Modern)
Herb Lubalin (Lubalin Graph)
Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (Ultra-Modern Roman)
R. Hunter Middleton (99 typefaces including: Stellar, Coronet, Stencil, Delphian, Umbra )
James Montalbano (Clearview)
William Dana Orcutt (Humanistic)
Wadsworth A. Parker (Lexington, Gallia)
Jim Parkinson
Joseph W. Phinney (Abbott Old Style, Cloister Black (with M.F. Benton), Camelot (with F. Goudy))
Will Ransom (Parsons)
Bruce Rogers (Centaur)
Rudolph Ruzicka (Fairfield)
Stefan Sagmeister (Sagmeister, Inc.)
Christian Schwartz (Neutraface, Amplitude, Guardian Egyptian)
Ralph Fletcher Seymour (private typefaces for his Alderbrink Press)
Robert Slimbach (Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier)
Sara Soskolne (Gotham with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones)
Sumner Stone (Stone Sans, Stone Serif, Stone Informal, Stone Print, Cycles)
Ilene Strizver
Tommy Thompson (titling series for Saturday Evening Post and Colliers)
Carol Twombly (Lithos, Myriad (co-designer), Trajan, Charlemagne, Nueva, Adobe Caslon)
Frederic Warde (Arrighi)
Robert Wiebking (31 typefaces as a designer, including: Artcraft, Munder, Advertisers Gothic. Many more as a punch-cutter.)
Doyald Young (Young Baroque, Eclat)
Ross F. George (Sign Painter and type designer)
Yemen
Sultan Al-Maqtari (Musnad, Sultan Nahia, Pumice, Sultan Free, Shamsan)[ye 1]
Eyad Al-Samman (Loyolliams, Sherbrooke, Samman, Zawiya, Alfarooq)[ye 2]
Computer typeface creators
This is a list of creators of computer typefaces, usually distributed in TrueType format. Many of these designers also design shareware or commercial fonts as well.
Emil and Erik Bertell (Fenotype)[2]
Rebecca G. Bettencourt (Kreative Korporation)[3]
Nick Curtis[4][5]
Diane DiPiazza (dincTYPE)[6]
Christophe Féray (WC Fonts)[7]
Vic Fieger[8]
Jakob Fischer (Pizzadude)[9]
Christopher Fynn (Free Tibetan Fonts Project)[10]
Daniel Gauthier[11]
Kimberly Geswein[12]
Manfred Klein[13]
Ray Larabie(Larabie Font)[14][15]
Jeff Levine[16]
Paul J. Lloyd[17]
Harold Lohner[18]
Graham Meade (GemFonts)[19]
Dave Nalle (Sirona, Divona, Onuava)[20]
Martin Pfeiffer[21]
Nate Piekos (Blambot)[22]
Peter Rempel[23]
Derek Vogelpohl[24][25]
Peter Wiegel[26]
Dan Zadorozny (Iconian Fonts)[27]