Graphic designer born in New York in 1931. Worked with Milton Glaser at Push Pin Studios in New York from 1954. Many of his fonts were sold by Photo Lettering.

He designed

• Chwast Buffalo Black Condensed (1981, Linotype). Not my favorite black-weight face, oddly serifed. Chwast Buffalo provided the inspiration for Lackawanna Weed (2007, Nick Curtis).
• Artone (1968, PhotoLettering Inc: psychedelic lettering). Artone was digitized as Loose Caboose NF (2007, Nick Curtis). Iza W's Fofucha family (2007) is based on Chwast's work.
• Blimp (1970, from issue c84 of Push Pin Graphic). Blimp was the inspiration for Weedy Beasties NF (2007, Nick Curtis). See also this Pin Push poster by Alessandra Bautista (2013).
• Film Sense (1969, Photolettering: with Milton Glaser).

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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Seymour Chwast
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Photo and film type era ⦿ Psychedelic types ⦿ Nick Curtis ⦿

Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html