typography and type : Important type-artists I

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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 John Baskerville 1706–1775 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 1872–1948 engineer, type designer (most famous fonts: Bodoni-Antiqua, Broadway, Century, Franklin Gothic, Clearface, Celtenham, Stymie)

Bodoni Giambattista Bodoni, Parma 1740–1813 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 1480–1561 france type founder, type designer, punch cutter and publisher (most famous font: Garamond)

Gill Eric Gill 1882–1940 english sculptor, graphic artist and type designer (most famous fonts: Perpetua, Gill Sans, Joanna)

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)

Important type-artists part II