Jay H. Schechter

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Jay H. Schechter Jay Schechter (b. 1941, New York) studied art, design, and lettering at Hunter College. He managed photographic reproduction at TypoGraphic Communications in New York. Creator of phototype typefaces at VGC, such as Jay Gothic and Jay Gothic Bold (1965) [these typefaces are available as OPTI Jaffa from Castcraft]. He worked for TGC (TypoGraphics Communications), which was a successor to Rapid Typographers, from 1966 to the close (1984). After TGC, he worked for Characters (which also bought up the fonts from Techni Plus) until that closed (approx. 1992).	EXTERNAL LINKS Jay H. Schechter MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Photo and film type era ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿

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