Ron Carpenter

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Ron Carpenter Designer (b. 1950, Dorking, UK), who worked first as a letter draughtsman in Monotype's type drawing office, before becoming a full-fledged type designer in 1982. He worked for Monotype for 25 years before joining Dalton Maag as a type designer in 1996. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. His typefaces: His Monotype typefaces: Monotype Bullmer (redrawn in 1994), Cantoria (1986), Amasis MT (1990, slab serif; see also the 2013 release Amasis eText by Linotype: it has wider spacing and larger x-height) and CalistoMT (1987). In 1991, he redrew Dante and added variants. He assisted Robin Nicholas with the design of Nimrod Italic. His typefaces done at Dalton Maag: Plume (2007, with Bruno Maag), Co Text (2006), Co Headline (2007), King's Caslon (2007, with Marc Weymann), Stroudley (2007), Viato (2007), Lexia (1999-2007) and Lexia Typographic Advertising (2007, an extra bold weight with macho slabs), Aller (2008, a humanist sans co-designed with Marc weymann and Bruno Maag). In 2010, Dalton Maag made a big deal out of Ron Carpenter's mega-sans family Aktiv Grotesk, which it labeled a Helvetica killer. Codesigner with Bruno Mello, Fabio Haag, Rafael Saraiva and Fernando Caro of Soleto (2014, Dalton Maag), a sans typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. In 2014, Bruno Maag, Ron Carpenter, Fernando Caro and Rafael Saraiva co-designed the rounded organic sans typeface Oscine (Dalton Maag). View Ron Carpenter's typefaces.	EXTERNAL LINKS Ron Carpenter [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Monotype link Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Caslon ⦿