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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 from 1966 until its demise in 1984 [TGC was a successor to Rapid Typographers]. He became the Director of Typographic Design at Characters, which also bought up the fonts from Techni Plus, until that company too closed its doors, ca. 1992.

Creator of phototype typefaces at VGC, such as Jay Gothic and Jay Gothic Bold (1965) [these typefaces are available as OPTI Jaffa from Castcraft]. After TGC, he worked for Characters (which also bought up the fonts from Techni Plus) until that closed (approx. 1992).

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