Type Designers

  1. Erik Spiekermann

    Erik Spiekermann

    Erik Spiekermann is a renowned type designer and creator of such classic typefaces as FF Meta, ITC Oficina, and many others.

  2. Seymour Chwast

    Seymour Chwast

    Seymour Chwast is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer. Chwast is co-founder of Push Pin Studios and continues to illustrate and design for magazines and publications.

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    Neil Summerour

    Neil Summerour is a type designer, lettering artist, calligrapher and designer. As a typeface designer, he has published over 60 typeface families and produced numerous custom typefaces for clients worldwide.

  5. Alex Trochut

    Alex Trochut

    Alex Trochut's illustrations, designs and typography take the modern notion of minimalism and flip it on its side. Trochut's work philosophy is "More is more." It is rich with elegant, brilliantly detailed executions that simultaneously convey indulgence and careful, restrained control. Trochut is driven by a desire to constantly evolve which can be seen in his eclectic body of work.

  6. Lynne Yun

    Lynne Yun

    Lynne Yun is a Brooklyn-based designer who specializes in type design, typography, hand lettering, and calligraphy. She is a type designer at Monotype and serves on the board of AIGA NY.

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    Adam Hayes

    Adam Hayes is an artist, illustrator and designer based in London, England. Best known for his hand rendered typography, Adam also creates intricate and imaginative maps alongside beautifully detailed line drawings for clients such as Toyota, Sony, the Guardian and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

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    John Berry

    John Berry is an editor and typographer who works both sides of the design/content divide.

  10. Terrance Weinzierl

    Terrance Weinzierl

    Google, Domino's and Microsoft are among the major brands Terrance Weinzierl has designed type for. As part of the font development team at Monotype, he's been creating lettering and fonts for the Monotype Library and a wide range of clients since 2008.

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    Laura Meseguer

    Laura Meseguer is a freelance type designer, letterer and designer based in Barcelona. I'm specialized in editorial design and the design of letters and typefaces, from a monogram to a whole alphabet. I'm also a type consultant and teacher.

  15. Henning Skibbe

    Henning Skibbe

    Henning Skibbe is a typedesigner from Hamburg/Germany. As an expert on typography, editorial design and typeface design Henning Skibbe is a regular speaker at conferences as TypoBerlin and TypoDay. He has taught editorial design and typography at HAW university in Hamburg.

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    Harald Geisler

    Harald Geisler is a German designer with a degree in typography. His latest font design, the Sigmund Freud Typeface, became the first typeface to be featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is also the publisher of the recent reissue of the Swiss design classic "Designing Programms" by Karl Gerstner, with Lars Müller Publishers Zürich. Geisler's projects range from font design, to book and app publishing, still life flower prints and calendars. His typographic studio is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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    Robert Wakeman

    Robert Wakeman is a well-known and respected type director. For the past 25 years, he's worked with some of the most demanding and fastidious creative directors and art directors.

  18. Frida Medrano

    Frida Medrano

    Frida Medrano is a graphic designer graduated from UDEM, University of Monterrey. Medrano's main focus is typography, whether in its creation (in the form of letters or icons) or its application in branding, editorial and web.

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    Cyrus Highsmith

    In 1997 Cyrus Highsmith graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design and joined the Font Bureau. As Senior Designer, he concentrates on development of new type series.

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    Fabrizio Schiavi

    Personal site dedicated to graphic and typographic production of Fabrizio Schiavi. He designed custom fonts and fonts for retail.

  21. James Lunn

    James Lunn

    James Lunn is an award-winning designer & art director currently working from York and London.

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    Joan Quiros

    Joan Quirós is a graphic designer specialized in custom lettering and calligraphy. Born and raised in Valencia, Spain, now he's living and working in London, England. Influenced by underground culture and music, he started drawing letters at the late nineties, when he became interested in graffiti and urban calligraphy. During his professional growth as a co-founder and art director of Voltio, he has developed projects for clients from Spain, Canada, USA, UK or South America.

  24. Toshi Omagari

    Toshi Omagari

    Toshi Omagari is an Advanced Typeface Designer at Monotype. He studied typography and typeface design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo where he graduated in 2008, and went on to join MA in typeface design at University of Reading in 2011. Since he joined Monotype, he has released typefaces such as Metro Nova and Neue Haas Unica, while also working on custom typefaces for clients such as H&M and Sir Quentin Blake.

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    Hector Noval

    Hector Noval works in graphic design for a wide range of media, from print to interactive, from concept to completion, with a keen interest in branding, packaging and typography and their relationship with new cross-media information spaces.

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    David Grimes

    The portfolio of David Grimes, a graphic designer and hand-letterer from Portland, Oregon.

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    Keith Tam: typography + beyond

    An online type and typography resource including a typography web log, articles on typography, type design and graphic design, links, book reviews plus a portfolio of Keith Tam's typography and type design work.

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    DSType: Dino dos Santos

    DSType is an independent type foundry, founded by Dino dos Santos. Since 1994, DSType has produced several typefaces for every purposes, from magazines and books to institutional clients.