Tommy Thompson (type designer)
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Tommy Thompson (born 1906 Blue Point, New York) was an American calligrapher, graphic artist and typeface designer. In 1944 he became the first designer to earn royalties for a type design, from Photo Lettering Inc. for his Thompson Quill Script. Previously, designers had worked in house for foundries or had sold the rights to their faces outright. He maintaned a studio in New York City and was the author of several books on type and lettering.[1]
Typefaces
Thompson designed all of these foundry types:[2]
- Post Headletter (1943, Monotype), privately cast for the Saturday Evening Post.
- Collier Heading (1946, Monotype), privately cast for Collier's Magazine.
- Mademoiselle (1953, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by Herman Schnorr. Originally cast for Mademoiselle Magazine, but later offered for general sale.
- Baltimore Script (1955, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by George Battee.
- Additional weights of Futura for Intertype (1950's).
- Thompson Quill Script (1953, American Type Founders), this was also made available for phototypesetting by Photo Lettering Inc..
Books
- The script letter; its form, construction and application, New York, The Studio Publications Inc., 1939.
- How to render roman letter forms. A pattern for understanding and drawing roman letters and other styles of lettering and type faces related to them, New York, American Studio Books, 1946.
- Basic layout design; a pattern for understanding the basic motifs in design and how to apply them to graphic art problems, New York, Studio Publications, in association with Crowell, c. 1950.
References
- ^ Rollins, Carl Purlington American Type Designers and Their Work. in Print, V. 4, #1, p.18.
- ^ MacGrew, Mac, American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, ISBN 0-938768-34-4.
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1906 |
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Blue Point, New York |
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