Chauncey 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.
