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Font Designer - Chauncey H. Griffith |
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Chauncey H. Griffith
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Chauncey GriffithChauncey H. Griffith – born 1879 in Irontown/Ohio, USA, died 1956 in Butler/N.Y., USA – typesetter, machine compositor. 1915: – becomes assistant to the president of Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Newspaper typesetting specialist. 1936: vice president of Mergenthaler Linotype with responsibility for typographic development. Fonts: Ionic No 5 (1926), Ionic Condensed (1927), Papst (1928–1931), Poster Bodoni™ (1929), Textype (1929), Granjon™ bold (1930), Excelsior™ (1931), Janson (1932), Opticon (1935), Paragon (1935), Bookman® (1936), Memphis™ extra bold/extra bold italic (1936), Bell Gothic™ (1937), Baskerville® bold/bold italic (1939), Ryerson Condensed (1940), Corona™ (1941), Monticello (1946). * TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. |
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Bell Gothic is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Corona, Excelsior and Memphis are trademarks of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH. Granjon is a trademark of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Bodoni is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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