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Domela

César Domela (1900–1992), Dutch sculptor, painter, photographer, typographer, and key member of the De Stijl movement

Dwiggins

William Addison Dwiggins (1880–1956), American typographer and illustrator

Francis Thibaudeau

Francis Thibaudeau (1860, Cholet, France - 1925, Paris) was a French typographer and creater of the first well-established system for classifying typefaces, the Thibaudeau classification.

Gert Wiescher

He is known for an almost complete re-design of Bodoni classic typefaces, the work of Giambattista Bodoni, the 17th century Italian typographer.

Lima Barreto

His father was a typographer and a monarchist who had close connections to Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, the Viscount of Ouro Preto, who would later become Lima Barreto's godfather.

Litton Cheney

From 1953 until 1979, The Old Rectory was the home of noted English engraver, designer, typographer and painter Reynolds Stone.

Monoblock Industry of Imagineering

Monoblock had publish over 40 artists, including Liniers (cartoonist), Gary Baseman, Catalina Estrada, Alberto Montt, Laura Varsky, Fernanda Cohen, Nate Williams, typographer Ale Paul, Christian Montenegro, Gemma Correll, Patricio Oliver, and other illustrators, designers, photographers, etc.

Pan-Nigerian alphabet

The final version and reference typeface were developed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1985.

Peignot

Georges Peignot (1872–1915), typographer and director of the foundry Deberny & Peignot

Printing and the Mind of Man

At the behest of typographer Stanley Morison it was decided to put together an exhibition of the contribution printing had made to the enlargement of human knowledge.

Ridler

Vivian Ridler (1913–2009), English printer, typographer and scholar

Robert Estienne

With his title of "royal typographer" Estienne made the Paris establishment famous by his numerous editions of grammatical works and other school-books (among them many of Melanchthon's), and of classical and Patristic authors, as Dio Cassius, Cicero, Sallust, Julius Caesar, Justin, Socrates Scholasticus, and Sozomen.

Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962), Austrian-American graphic designer and typographer

Samuel Tyszkiewicz

Samuel Tyszkiewicz (1889–1954) was a Polish typographer, member of the once powerful Tyszkiewicz noble family.

Teige

Karel Teige (1900 - 1951), Czech graphic artist, photographer, and typographer

The Elements of Typographic Style

The Elements of Typographic Style is a book by Canadian typographer, poet and translator Robert Bringhurst.

The I Tatti Renaissance Library

A typeface named "ITRL", based on the work of Renaissance typographer Nicolas Jenson, was specially designed for the series.

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

The plot of the book concerns Yambo (full name: Giambattista Bodoni, just like the typographer Giambattista Bodoni), a 59-year-old Milanese antiquarian book dealer who loses his episodic memory due to a stroke.

Van der Lans

Rudy VanderLans (born 1955), Dutch graphic designer and typographer

Van Vliet

Claire Van Vliet (born 1933), Canadian artist, illustrator and typographer

Werkman

Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882–1945), a Dutch artist, typographer and printer

Zapf

Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer, professor, calligrapher, typographer and husband of Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse


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