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)