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Type designer

A type designer is someone who designs typefaces.

Famous type designers:

20th century

Charles Bigelow[?]
Matthew Carter
Adrian Frutiger[?]
Eric Gill
Frederic Goudy[?]
Robert Hunter Middleton[?]
Robert Slimbach[?]
Carol Twombly[?]
Hermann Zapf

Before the 20th century

John Baskerville
Giambattista Bodoni[?]
William Caslon[?]
Claude Garamond[?]

Lists of type designers:

MyFonts.com: Type Designers (http://www.myfonts.com/Person)

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