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Here I introduce some outstanding personalities of the history of typography:

Baskerville
Benguiat
Benton
Bodoni
Frutiger
Garamond
Gill
Koch
Lange
Morison
Renner
Spiekermann
Trump
Tschichold
Zapf
Zapf-von-Hesse


Baskerville
Baskerville
John Baskerville
1706–1775
english type designer, writing master, printer
(most famous font: Baskerville)




Benguiat
Benguiat
Ed Benguiat
born at 1927
amerikan jazzmusician, type designer and calligrapher
(most famous fonts: Souvenir, Tiffany, Bookmann, Benguiat, Bauhaus)

Benton
Sorry, no picture (has anyone got a silhouette?)
Morris F. Benton
1872–1948
engineer, type designer
(most famous fonts: Bodoni-Antiqua, Broadway, Century, Franklin Gothic, Clearface, Celtenham, Stymie)



Bodoni
Bodoni
Giambattista Bodoni, Parma
1740–1813
italyan type designer, book printer, typographer, engraver and publisher
(most famous font: Bodoni)

Frutiger
Sorry, no picture (has anyone got a silhouette?)
Adrian Frutiger
born at 1928
swiss type designer, illustrator, teacher
(most famous fonts: Avenir, Centenial, Frutiger, Iridium, Meridien, OCR-B, Serifa, Univers)
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Garamond
Garamond
Claude Garamond, Paris
1480–1561
france type founder, type designer, punch cutter and publisher
(most famous font: Garamond)




Gill
Sorry, no picture (has anyone got a silhouette?)
Eric Gill
1882–1940
english sculptor, graphic artist and type designer
(most famous fonts: Perpetua, Gill Sans, Joanna)



Koch
Koch
Rudolf Koch, Nürnberg
1876–1934
german book artist, type designer, typographer, calligrapher and teacher
(most famous font: Kabel, Koch-Anitqua, Claudius, Wilhelm-Klingspor-Gotisch, Wallau)


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