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Sara Soskolne
Toronto, Canada-born type designer best known for her work at Hoefler&Frere-Jones type foundry (where she is a senior designer) on such typefaces as Gotham. Ex-student at the University of Reading (MA, 2003) who designed Motet (2003), a text family including a sans and an italic. In 2005, she joined Hoefler&Frere-Jones in their typeface development department. Since joining Hoefler & Co. she has contributed to the design of a wide range of both bespoke and retail typefaces---the latter including Verlag, Chronicle, Sentinel, Gotham, Tungsten, Ringside and Quarto---and has taught typeface design at the Yale School of Art, New York's School of Visual Arts, and together with Sumner Stone was a founding instructor of The Cooper Union's Type at Cooper Condensed Program. She is working on a superfamily, and has written an in-depth study of the evolution of the sans serif lowercase in the types of the nineteenth century. She has taught type design at Yale School of Art, the Book Arts Institute at Wells College, and New York's School of Visual Arts and the Cooper Type Certificate Program. Her typefaces:
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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 |