List of type designers
A type designer is a person who designs typefaces.
A partial list of notable type designers follows by country, with a signature typeface.
Australia
- Stephen Banham
Brazil
- Eduardo Recife
Canada
- Sara Soskolne
- Gerald Giampa
- Ray Larabie
- Jim Rimmer
- Nick Shinn
Czech Republic
- František Štorm
- Vojtěch Preissig
- Petr Blažek
France
- George Auriol
- Michel Bouvet
- Louis Braille
- Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
- Charles Nicolas Cochin
- Simon de Colines
- Firmin Didot
- François Didot
- François-Ambroise Didot
- Henri Didot
- Pierre Didot
- Roger Excoffon
- Pierre Simon Fournier
- Claude Garamond
- Robert Granjon
- Hector Guimard
- Nicolas Jenson
- Christophe Plantin
- Jean-François Porchez
- Jacques Sabon
- Wynkyn de Worde
Germany
- Otto Arpke
- Johann Christian Bauer
- Konrad Friedrich Bauer
- Walter Baum
- Lucian Bernhard
- Peter Behrens
- Georg Belwe
- Jakob Erbar
- Johann Gutenberg
- Karlgeorg Hoefer
- Heinrich Jost
- Rudolf Koch
- Paul Renner
- Erik Spiekermann
- Jan Tschichold
- Carlos Winkow designer for the Nacional Typefoundry of Madrid
- Berthold Wolpe
- Gudrun Zapf von Hesse
- Hermann Zapf
Israel
- Henri Friedlaender
- Eliyahu Koren
Italy
- Raffaello Bertieri
- Giambattista Bodoni
- Alessandro Butti
- Francesco Griffo
- Aldus Manutius
- Aldo Novarese
- Amoretti Brothers
- Fabrizio Schiavi
Netherlands
- Evert Bloemsma
- Jos Buivenga
- Wim Crouwel
- Bram de Does
- Dick Dooijes
- Lucas de Groot
- Boudewijn Ietswaart
- Jan van Krimpen
- Martin Majoor
- Gerrit Noordzij
- Albert-Jan Pool
- S.H. de Roos
- Fred Smeijers
- Gerard Unger
New Zealand
- Joseph Churchward
- Kris Sowersby
- Jack Yan
Portugal
- João Miranda
- Manuel Pereira da Silva
- Nuno Dias
- Rafael Serra
- Rúben Dias
- Rui Abreu
Russia
- Solomon Telingater
- Alexandra Korolkova
Serbia
- Hieromonk Makarije
Slovakia
- Zuzana Licko
- Peter Biľak
Spain
- Eudald Pradell, punchcutter.
Sweden
- Akke Kumlien
- Karl-Erik Forsberg
- Bo Berndal
- Franko Luin
Switzerland
- Max Bill
- Adrian Frutiger
- Karl Gerstner
- Max Miedinger
Syria
- Mamoun Sakkal
Thailand
- Anuthin Wongsunkakon
United Kingdom
- Charles Robert Ashbee
- Richard Austin
- Paul Barnes
- Jonathan Barnbrook
- John Baskerville
- Robert Besley
- Neville Brody )
- Margaret Calvert
- Matthew Carter
- William Caslon
- Roy Cole
- Eric Gill
- Phill Grimshaw
- Robert Harling
- Rian Hughes
- Edward Johnston
- Seb Lester
- Bruno Maag Dalton Maag Type Design
- Stanley Morison
- Fiona Ross
- Jeremy Tankard
- Walter Tracy
United States
- Ed Benguiat
- Linn Boyd Benton
- Morris Fuller Benton
- Lucian Bernhard
- Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design
- Joseph Blumenthal,
- William H. Bradley
- Jackson Burke
- Leslie Cabarga
- Warren Chappell
- Thomas Maitland Cleland
- Vincent Connare
- Oswald Bruce 'Oz' Cooper
- Rick Cusick
- Joshua Darden
- Chank Diesel
- Lawrence O'Donnell
- Michael Doret
- William Addison Dwiggins
- Louise Fili
- Tobias Frere-Jones
- Sidney Gaunt
- William S. Gillies
- Zuzana Licko
- Bertram Goodhue
- Frederic Goudy
- Chauncey H. Griffith
- Victor Hammer
- Sol Hess
- Jessica Hische
- Jonathan Hoefler
- Kris Holmes
- Dard Hunter
- Susan Kare
- Richard Kegler
- Donald Knuth
- Raph Levien
- Harold Lohner
- Herb Lubalin
- Steve Matteson
- Douglas Crawford McMurtrie
- R. Hunter Middleton
- James Montalbano
- Berne Nadall, Caslon Antique.
- William Dana Orcutt
- Wadsworth A. Parker
- Jim Parkinson
- Joseph W. Phinney, Camelot )
- Will Ransom
- Thomas Rickner
- Bruce Rogers
- Rudolph Ruzicka
- Christian Schwartz
- Tré Seals
- Ralph Fletcher Seymour
- Mark Simonson
- Robert Slimbach
- Sumner Stone
- Ilene Strizver
- Tommy Thompson
- Carol Twombly
- Frederic Warde
- Robert Wiebking
- Doyald Young
- Ross F. George