Carol Twombly: Her Brief But Brilliant Career in Type Design (Oak Knoll Press) has been billed as "the first book on type design centered around the career of one woman." I would argue that it is more important than that. It is the first full-length biography of a type designer of the digital era—man or woman. There is no comparable publication on Sumner Stone, Erik Spiekermann, Robert Slimbach, Jonathan Hoefler, Zuzana Licko, Tobias Frere-Jones or Gerard Unger. Only Matthew Carter, who began his career in the late 1950s, has a monograph to his name: Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter by Margaret Re, Johanna Drucker and James Mosley (2002). Perhaps the reason that Twombly is the first digital type designer to be profiled in depth is because of her short career. All of the other individuals mentioned here are still active.
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