7 Influential Women Type DesignersWhether it’s the header of a webpage, a menu on an app or an eye-catching billboard – typefaces are everywhere. This Women’s History Month we’re shining a spotlight on the women type designers who have made a massive contribution to the field of typography design.

Licko became the resident type

designer at Emigre magazine in 1984,

designing many of her acclaimed

bitmap fonts using the first generation

Mac computer.

ZUZANA LICKO

NOTEABLE TYPEFACES

Mrs Eaves

Dogma

Oblong

JESSICA HISCHEType designer and letterer Jessica

Hische produces highly ornate and

stylised typefaces. Hische has

produced lettering work for high-profile

clients such as Penguin Books and film

director Wes Anderson.

NOTEABLE TYPEFACES

Tilda

Brioche

Buttermilk

A typeface designer, author, lecturer

and typographic consultant, Dr Ross is

a specialist in non-Latin scripts. She

worked for Linotype between 1978

and 1989, notably on Arabic

and Indic scripts.

FIONA ROSS

NOTEABLE TYPEFACES

Linotype Bengali

Adobe Thai

A renowned graphic designer, curator,

writer and critic inspired by the

Bauhaus art and design movement,

Ellen Lupton has written a number of

books on type.

ELLEN LUPTON

NOTEABLE WORKS

Thinking With Type

DIY: Design it Yourself

Pooja’s type designs - full of playful

bends and flicks - convey her interest

in languages and script. Ornate and

complex, yet somehow effortless,

Pooja has risen to prominence for her

multi-script typefaces such as Farsan.

POOJA SAXENA

NOTEABLE TYPEFACES

Farsan

Cantarell

Liron has captured the world’s

imagination with her nuanced

typefaces that expertly bring

together Latin, Amharic and

Hebrew scripts.

LIRON LAVI TURKENICH

NOTEABLE TYPEFACES

Makeda

For Rushton, beauty in typeface design

is a secondary consideration to

practicality and function, instead

preferring “things that have jobs.”

VICTORIA RUSHTON

NOTEABLE TYPEFACES

Marcia