Adrian Williams

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Adrian Williams British advertising typographer and type designer, b. 1950, Somerset. Co-designer with Rosemary Sassoon of the school fonts Sassoon Primary and Sassoon Infant in 1990. See also Sassoon for Start-Bee (2020) and Sassoon Infant Pro (2020). He ran Club Type/Adrian Williams Design Limited in Merstham, Surrey (UK). His typefaces now owned by Monotype Imaging: Bulldog (2005-2010, +Slab: based on 1870 Figgins), Column, Congress (1974), Congress Sans, Eurocrat, Leamington (1978, can be found at Elsner & Flake), Mercurius, Monkton, Poseidon, Raleigh (1978), Rileyson (2010), Seagull (1978, + Bob McGrath, design owned by Ingrama), Stratford, Worcester Rounded (1974), Worchester. Perhaps the most famous in this list is the slab serif family Congress (1974), which has been digitally revived to death by URW++, Elsner&Flake, TypeShop, Scangraphic, SoftMaker, and Linotype. Williams was attached to the Swiss foundry Ingrama, where he made Leamington, Raleigh and Seagull.	EXTERNAL LINKS Adrian Williams [Designer info] Monotype link MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿ School fonts ⦿