Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter

male, 72 years old
Matthew Carter, (born in Britain in 1937) is a typeface designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. Carter's career in...
Hermann Zapf

Hermann Zapf

male, 91 years old
Hermann Zapf (born November 8, 1918) is a prolific German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and...
William Caslon

William Caslon

male, deceased (1766)
William Caslon, also known as William Caslon I (1692-1766) was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley,...
Morris Fuller Benton

Morris Fuller Benton

male, deceased (1948)
Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 -June 30, 1948) was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the...
Robert Slimbach

Robert Slimbach

male
Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including...
Jean-François Porchez

Jean-François Porchez

male, 45 years old
Jean-François Porchez is the president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the leading organisation of type designers. By 1994, h...

Gerard Unger

male
Gerard Unger is one of the world’s most famous graphic developers of type fonts. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and su...
Claude Garamond

Claude Garamond

male, deceased (1561)
Claude Garamond was a Parisian publisher. He was one of the leading type designers of his time, and several of the typefaces he designed are still...

Charles Bigelow

male, 64 years old
Charles Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is a type historian, professor, and designer. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with...
Giambattista Bodoni

Giambattista Bodoni

male, deceased (1813)
Giambattista Bodoni (February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo - November 29, 1813 in Parma) was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high...