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Donald L. Vernon

Sign painter and artist, b. 1930, Springfield, MO, d. 2017, Kansas City, MO, who was in the US Air Force in WWII and has a BA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Designer of the film font Chrome. This font was shown in a Lettergraphics ad in U&LC in 1974. From his obituary in the Kansas City Star: During the school years he worked at several sign shops and for Hallmark Cards. He then free-lanced while looking for a career job. In 1957 he was "discovered" by Hal Sandy, who had a small but creative sales promotion agency. Thirty-six years later, Don retired from Sandy, Inc. after having advanced to Vice-President and becoming part owner of the company. [...] In 1993, Ann "Smiley" Havlicek (his second wife) and Don formed their own free-lance company, Vernon & Assoc., and worked out of their home. .

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