A type designer is a person who designs typefaces. (The term "typographer" is sometimes misapplied to type designers: a typographer is a person who arranges existing typefaces to lay out a pagesee typography) A partial list of notable type designers follows by country, with a signature typeface (or two for significant designers). Australia Stephen Banham Brazil Eduardo Recife Canada Gerald Giampa Ray Larabie Jim Rimmer Nick Shinn Czech Republic František Štorm Vojtěch Preissig Petr Blažek France George Auriol (Auriol) Michel Bouvet Louis Braille Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (Peignot, 1937) Charles Nicolas Cochin Simon de Colines Firmin Didot François Didot François-Ambroise Didot Henri Didot Pierre Didot Xavier Dupré Roger Excoffon Pierre Simon Fournier Claude Garamond (Garamond) Robert Granjon Hector Guimard Nicolas Jenson Christophe Plantin Jean-François Porchez Jacques Sabon Wynkyn de Worde Germany Otto Arpke (Taiko) Johann Christian Bauer (Fette Fraktur) Konrad Friedrich Bauer (Fortune) Walter Baum (Fortune) Lucian Bernhard (Bernhard Gothic) Peter Behrens (Bahrens-Schrift) Georg Belwe (Belwe Roman) Jakob Erbar (Erbar, Candida, Feder Grotesk, Koloss) Johann Gutenberg Karlgeorg Hoefer (Elegance, Permanent) Heinrich Jost (Bauer Bodoni, Beton) Rudolf Koch (Kabel, Neuland, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch) Paul Renner (Futura, 1927) Erik Spiekermann (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit and others) Jan Tschichold (Sabon) Carlos Winkow designer for the Nacional Typefoundry of Madrid Berthold Wolpe (Albertus) Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (Diotima, Alcuin) Hermann Zapf (Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino) India Sarang Kulkarni (Ek Type) Israel Henri Friedlaender (Hadassah, Shalom, Hadar, Aviv) Eliyahu Koren (Koren) Italy Raffaello Bertieri (Inkunabula, Paganini) Giambattista Bodoni (Bodoni) Alessandro Butti (Microgramma, Rondine) Francesco Griffo (Bembo, Poliphilus) Aldus Manutius Aldo Novarese (Novarese, Eurostile, Fenice, Recta, Microgramma, Stop, Expert, Magister, Garaldus, Normandia, Recta, Estro, ...) Amoretti Brothers (Amoretti) Fabrizio Schiavi (PragmataPro, Sys, Abitare Sans, Siruca…) Netherlands Evert Bloemsma (FF Balance, FF Cocon, FF Avance, FF Legato) Jos Buivenga (Anivers, Calluna, Delicious, Diavlo, Fontin, Fertigo, Museo, Questa) Wim Crouwel (Catalogue, Fodor, Gridnik, New Alphabet, Stedelijk) Bram de Does (TEFF Trinité, TEFF Lexicon) Dick Dooijes (Nobel, Contura, Lectura, Rondo, Mercator) Lucas de Groot (Thesis, TheAntiqua, Corpid, Calibri) Boudewijn Ietswaart (Balduina) Jan van Krimpen (Spectrum, Romanée, Romulus, Haarlemmer, Lutetia, Cancellaresca Bastarda) Martin Majoor (FF Scala, FF Scala Sans, Telefont, FF Seria, FF Seria Sans, FF Nexus Serif, FF Nexus Sans, FF Nexus Mix) Gerrit Noordzij (TEFF Burgundica, TEFF Ruse) Albert-Jan Pool (FF DIN, URW Imperial, URW Linear, Mauritius I, FF OCR-F, Jet Set Sans, DTL HEIN GAS, Regenbogen Bold) S.H. de Roos (aka