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A type designer is someone who designs typefaces.

Famous type designers:

20th century

• Charles Bigelow[?]
• Matthew Carter
• Adrian Frutiger[?]
• Eric Gill
• Frederic Goudy[?]
• Robert Hunter Middleton[?]
• Robert Slimbach[?]
• Carol Twombly[?]
• Hermann Zapf

Before the 20th century

• John Baskerville
• Giambattista Bodoni[?]
• William Caslon[?]
• Claude Garamond[?]

Lists of type designers:

• MyFonts.com: Type Designers (http://www.myfonts.com/Person)