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...
Francesco Griffo

Francesco Griffo

male, deceased (1518)
Francesco Griffo (1450- 1518), also called Francesco da Bologna, was a fifteenth-century Venetian punchcutter. He worked for Aldus Manutius,...
Tolbert Lanston

Tolbert Lanston

deceased (1914)
Tolbert Lanston (1844-1914) was the American founder of Monotype, inventing a mechanical typesetting system patented in 1887 and the first hot...
John Baskerville

John Baskerville

male, deceased (1775)
John Baskerville was born in the village of Wolverley, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire and was a printer in Birmingham, England. He was a...
Frederic Warde

Frederic Warde

male, deceased (1939)
Frederic Warde (1894-1939) was a typographic designer. He was born in Wells, Minnesota, enlisted in the United States Army in 1915 and attended the...
Jacques Sabon

Jacques Sabon

male, deceased (1580)
Jacques Sabon (1535-1580/1590<sup>1<;/sup>), born in Lyon, died in Frankfurt-am-Main, was a famous typefounder. The Sabon typeface designed by the...
Maurice Prendergast

Maurice Prendergast

male, deceased (1924)
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10,1858-February 1, 1924) was a U.S. post-impressionist watercolor artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and...

Margaret Calvert

female, 73 years old
Margaret Calvert (b. 1936, South Africa) is a typographer and graphic designer who, along with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road...
William Clowes

William Clowes

male, deceased (1847)
William Clowes (January 1 1779 - January 26 1847) founded a printing firm, William Clowes Ltd., in London in 1803. The firm rapidly expanded, and...

Carol Anthony

female
"Carol Anthony" (b. 1943) is an American artist. Anthony's paintings and monotypes are represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian...