List of Type Designers - United States

United States

  • Jill Bell (Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno, Swank)
  • Linn Boyd Benton (Century)
  • Morris Fuller Benton (America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 total typefaces, including: Franklin Gothic, Century Schoolbook, News Gothic, Bank Gothic)
  • David Berlow (Charcoal, Bureau Grotesque)
  • Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic, Bernhard Modern)
  • Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, partners in design (Lucida family)
  • Roger Black Digital Type Designer Industry Pioneer
  • Joseph Blumenthal, (Spiral, Emerson)
  • Brian J. Bonislawsky
  • Alfred R. Bosco (Romany)
  • Philip Bouwsma
  • William H. Bradley
  • Mark van Bronkhorst (ITC Conduit, MVB Verdigris, MVB Embarcadero)
  • Jackson Burke (Trade Gothic, 1948)
  • Leslie Cabarga
  • Tom Carnase (Busorama, 1970)
  • Jason Castle (Goudy Trajan, Carisma, Dionisio, Sonrisa)
  • Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos (Alembic, Eidetic Neo, Faceplate Sans)
  • Warren Chappell, (Lydian series)
  • Thomas Maitland Cleland (Della Robbia)
  • Elizabeth Colwell (Colwell Handletter)
  • Vincent Connare (Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Magpie)
  • Oswald Bruce 'Oz' Cooper (Cooper Black, 1921)
  • Freeman Craw (Ad Lib, Craw Clarendon)
  • Carl Crossgrove (Mundo Sans, Biome, Beorcana)
  • Nick Curtis (ITC Beeswax)
  • Rick Cusick (Nyx)
  • Joshua Darden
  • Chuck Davis
  • Whedon Davis (Franklin Gothic Condensed Italic)
  • Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
  • Chank Diesel
  • Devon DeLapp
  • Matt Desmond (Stomper)
  • Ernest F. Detterer (Eusebius)
  • Peter Dombrezian (Dom Casual)
  • Jeremy Dooley (Aviano)
  • Michael Doret (Metroscript, Deliscript, DeLuxe Gothic, Orion MD, PowerStation)
  • William Addison Dwiggins (36 completed typefaces including Electra, Caledonia, Metro)
  • William E. Fink (Greenwich)
  • Robert Foster (Pericles)
  • Tobias Frere-Jones (Interstate, Gotham, Reactor, plus numerous custom designs for publications including the Wall Street Journal, GQ, Esquire, NY Times Magazine)
  • Sidney Gaunt (46 typefaces including Adstyle, Pencraft)
  • William S. Gillies (Gillies Light, Gillies Bold)
  • Bertram Goodhue (Cheltenham)
  • Frederic Goudy (90 completed typefaces including: Copperplate, 1905; Goudy Old Style, 1915; Berkeley Oldstyle, 1938)
  • James Grieshaber
  • Baruch Gorkin (Ariel Hebrew, New Peninim)
  • Chauncey H. Griffith (34 typefaces including Bell Gothic, 1937; Poster Bodoni, 1938)
  • Victor Hammer (American Uncial)
  • Berton Hasebe
  • George Hauser (Hauser Script)
  • Cyrus Highsmith (Benton Sans, together with Tobias Frere-Jones)
  • Sol Hess (house designer for Lanston Monotype Company where he completed 85 typefaces)
  • Jonathan Hoefler (Knockout, Hoefler Text, Gotham, Archer, Sentinel, partner with Tobias Frere-Jones)
  • Kris Holmes (Lucida)
  • Paul D. Hunt
  • Dard Hunter (private faces for his Mountain House Press)
  • Dard Hunter, Jr. (private faces for his father's Mountain House Press)
  • Walter Huxley (Huxley Vertical)
  • Susan Kare (original Apple Macintosh typeface, 1984)
  • Max R. Kaufmann (Kaufmann Script, Balloon)
  • Richard Kegler
  • Donald Knuth (Computer Modern)
  • Carl Stephen Junge (Swagger Capitals)
  • Jess Latham (Shimmer, Pink Martini)
  • Kent Lew (Whitman)
  • Patricia Lillie
  • Richard Lipton (Arrus, Bremen)
  • Joey Lopez (California Zephyr)
  • Herb Lubalin (Lubalin Graph)
  • Richard N. McArthur (Old Dutch)
  • Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (Ultra-Modern Roman)
  • R. Hunter Middleton (99 typefaces including: Stellar, Coronet, Stencil, Delphian, Umbra )
  • James Montalbano (Clearview)
  • Dave Nalle (Abaddon, Hesperides, Ligeia, Ironworks, Folkard)
  • William Dana Orcutt (Humanistic)
  • Hrant H. Papazian
  • Wadsworth A. Parker (Lexington, Gallia)
  • Jim Parkinson
  • Robert Petrick
  • Joseph W. Phinney (Abbott Old Style, Cloister Black (with M.F. Benton), Camelot (with F. Goudy))
  • Gerry Powell (Onyx, Stencil)
  • Will Ransom (Parsons)
  • John L. “Bud” Renshaw (Franklin Gothic Wide)
  • Frank H. Riley (Grayda)
  • Bruce Rogers (Centaur)
  • Tim Rolands
  • Guido + Lawrence Rosa (Rosa Roman + Italic)
  • David J. Ross (Manicotti)
  • Rudolph Ruzicka (Fairfield)
  • Stefan Sagmeister (Sagmeister, Inc.)
  • Stuart Sandler (Leisure Script)
  • Michael Scarpitti (typeface based on Latin inscriptions)
  • Christian Schwartz (Neutraface, Amplitude, Guardian Egyptian)
  • Ralph Fletcher Seymour (private typefaces for his Alderbrink Press)
  • Mark Simonson (Proxima Nova, Coquette, Mostra Nuova)
  • Robert Slimbach (Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier)
  • Dan X. Solo
  • Brian Sooy
  • Robert E. Smith (Park Avenue, Brush)
  • Willard T. Sniffin (Nubian, Rivoli, Piranesi)
  • Sara Soskolne (Gotham with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones)
  • Tony Stan (ITC Century)
  • Sumner Stone (Stone Sans, Stone Serif, Stone Informal, Stone Print, Cycles)
  • Ilene Strizver
  • Neil Summerour (Aaux, Baka, Epic, Organic )
  • Judith Sutcliffe
  • Tommy Thompson (titling series for Saturday Evening Post and Colliers)
  • Christina Torre
  • Howard Allen Trafton (Trafton Script, Cartoon)
  • George F. Trenholm (Trenholm Oldstyle)
  • Carol Twombly (Lithos, Myriad (co-designer), Trajan, Charlemagne, Nueva, Adobe Caslon)
  • Frederic Warde (Arrighi)
  • Jim Wasco (Elegy, Harmonia Sans, Mythos)
  • Robert Wiebking (31 typefaces as a designer, including: Artcraft, Munder, Advertisers Gothic. Many more as a punch-cutter.)
  • George Williams (Caslon Roman, Monospace)
  • Delve Withrington (Blot Test)
  • Doyald Young (Young Baroque, Eclat)
  • John Zimmermann (head matrix maker for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry)
  • John Hudson (Gabriola)

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