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Patty King

Californian graphic and type designer who claimed to be influenced by the impressionists. Patty King died in 2002, just after submitting ITC Bette. Check ITC's Women in Type. Her mostly calligraphic typefaces:

• ITC Bette (2002, ITC).
• ITC Blaze (1995, ITC),
• ITC Kick (1995, ITC). A fine calligraphic brush script.
• Montana (1996).
• ITC Skylark (1995, ITC).
• ITC Spirit (1995, ITC).

ITC wrote this after her death, about her last font, ITC Bette: Known to her friends as Patty and her family as Trisha, King grew up in northern California. Though she displayed artistic inclinations at an early age, it wasn't until her mid-twenties that she decided to pursue her talent and returned to college to study graphic design. Patty gravitated easily to calligraphy, lettering, and then typeface design. Over the succeeding years, a diverse list of clients commissioned her services. Sadly, this is the last typeface design ITC will license from Patty King. She succumbed to a prolonged illness just prior to completing the design. At her request, all royalties from the sale of this---and all her other ITC fonts---will be donated to the charity she identified before her passing.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Patty King at MyFonts. View Patty King's typefaces.

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INTERNAL LINKS
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