William A. Dwiggins – born 19. 6. 1880 in Martinsville, USA, died 25. 12. 1956 in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA – type designer, printer, typographer, graphic designer – studied at the Frank Holme School of Illustration in Chicago under Frederic W. Goudy.
1903–04: runs his own printing workshop in Cambridge, Ohio. 1905–16: commercial artist in Hingham, Massachusetts. 1917–18: director of Harvard University Press. 1919: founds the Society of Calligraphers in Boston and is their president and
[...]Ed (Ephram Edward) Benguiat, born 27. 10. 1927 in New York, USA, type designer, calligrapher. Studied at Columbia University, New York and the Workshop School of Advertising Art, New York.
1953: associate director of "Esquire" magazine. Opens his own design studio in New York. 1962: joins Photo-Lettering Inc. as typographic design director, a position he still holds today. 1970: joins the International Typeface Corporation and is made vice-president; he works on the in-house magazine
[...]The contemporary New York letter and type designer Tony Stan was born 1917 and died 1988. He created the following fonts: ITC American Typewriter™ (1974, with Joel Kaden), ITC Garamond™ (1977), ITC Cheltenham® (1978), ITC Century® (1980), ITC Berkeley Old Style™ (1983).
Caledonia is a trademark 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.
ITC Cheltenham is a trademark of International Typeface Corporation registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and which may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
