typography and type : Important type-artists I | top | top | top | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Here I introduce some outstanding personalities of
the history of typography:
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Baskerville Benguiat Benton Bodoni Frutiger Garamond Gill Koch Lange Morison Renner Spiekermann Trump Tschichold Zapf Zapf-von-Hesse |
Baskerville John Baskerville 17061775 english type designer, writing master, printer (most famous font: Baskerville) |
Benguiat Ed Benguiat born at 1927 amerikan jazzmusician, type designer and calligrapher (most famous fonts: Souvenir, Tiffany, Bookmann, Benguiat, Bauhaus) |
Benton Morris F. Benton 18721948 engineer, type designer (most famous fonts: Bodoni-Antiqua, Broadway, Century, Franklin Gothic, Clearface, Celtenham, Stymie) |
Bodoni Giambattista Bodoni, Parma 17401813 italyan type designer, book printer, typographer, engraver and publisher (most famous font: Bodoni) |
Frutiger Adrian Frutiger born at 1928 swiss type designer, illustrator, teacher (most famous fonts: Avenir, Centenial, Frutiger, Iridium, Meridien, OCR-B, Serifa, Univers) more infos: |
Garamond Claude Garamond, Paris 14801561 france type founder, type designer, punch cutter and publisher (most famous font: Garamond) |
Gill Eric Gill 18821940 english sculptor, graphic artist and type designer (most famous fonts: Perpetua, Gill Sans, Joanna) |
Koch Rudolf Koch, Nürnberg 18761934 german book artist, type designer, typographer, calligrapher and teacher (most famous font: Kabel, Koch-Anitqua, Claudius, Wilhelm-Klingspor-Gotisch, Wallau) |
Important type-artists part II |