Chauncey H. Griffith

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Chauncey H. Griffith (* 1879 in Irontown , Ohio , † 1956 in Butler , New York ) was an American typesetter and type designer .

Life

With the Mergenthaler Linotype Company since 1906 , Griffith became assistant to the company's President in 1915. In 1936 he became vice president of the company, responsible for typographic development. In this capacity, important type designers such as William Addison Dwiggins and Rudolf Růžička worked for him. His newspaper publications in particular, such as Corona and Excelsior , have found a very wide distribution. His Bell Gothic , developed for the Bell Company's telephone books , later inspired Matthew Carter to create the Bell Centennial .

literature

  • W. Pincus Jaspert, W. Turner Berry, AF Johnson: The Encyclopædia of Type Faces. Blandford Press, 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X .
  • Frederich Fiedl, Nicholas Ott, Bernard Stein: Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998, ISBN 1-57912-023-7 .
  • Neil Macmillan: To A – Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-11151-7 .

Fonts

  • Ionic No 5, 1926
  • Ionic Condensed, 1927
  • Pope, 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Font Family Tree - Ionic No. 5 ™ . MyFonts.com, Inc , archived from the original on October 13, 2007 ; accessed on January 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ linotype.com
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  5. ↑ myfonts.com
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personal data
SURNAME Griffith, Chauncey H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American typographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Irontown , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 1956
Place of death Butler (New York)