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