I would like to make a short list of font designers that have been essential in the history of typography, typographers creators of fonts such as ITC Avant Garde Gothic®, Garamond or Bodoni.
Tom carnase
Biography
He was born in 1939.
He is a teacher, typographer and graphic designer.
He has designed packaging graphics, corporate identities and logos for numerous well-known clients such as Coca-Cola, Condé Nast Publications, Doubleday publisher and NBC.
Fonts you have designed:
ITC Avant Garde Gothic® (with Herb Lubalin), ITC Busorama ™ (1970), WTC Carnase Text, WTC Favrille, WTC Goudy, WTC Our Bodoni (with Massimo Vignelli), 223 Caslon, LSC Book, WTC Our Futura, WTC 145;
with R. Bonder, Bolt®, Gorilla, Grizzly, Grouch, Honda®, Machine, Manhattan®, Milano Roman, Tom's
Morris Fuller Benton (1894-1967)
Biography
American type designer and engineer. Benton has been
He created and designed various typefaces that became part of the foundations of American typography.
Fonts he has designed:
Century Schoolbook, Cheltenham, News Gothic, Franklin Gothic, Stymie and Alternate Gothic, Garamond, Baskerville, Bulmer, Cloister, and Bodoni.
Herb lubalin
Biography
American graphic designer and typographer who was born in New York in 1918 and died in 1981.
He worked as a creative director in various agencies and already in 1964 he created his own studio.
He was one of the founders of ITC, International Typeface Corporation.
His typographic designs broke with tradition and played with new photocomposition possibilities.
Fonts he has designed:
He created the typeface of the same name marketed by ITC from 1970.
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missing G. Bodoni