Living Designers

David Quay (1948-Present)

Established The Foundry with Freda Sack and Mike Daines. Known for his typeface Quay Sans. Also created Foundry Old Style and Foundry Sans.

Matthew Carter (1937-Present)

Born in London, England, UK, Carter designed many typefaces that influenced designers around the world for over forty years. He co-founded Carter and Cone Type, Inc. and designed a famed typeface known as Verdana for Microsoft.

Zuzana Licko (1961-Present)

Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Licko had no formal training in typeface design. However, she designed bitmap fonts and well known fonts such as Emigre, Emperor, Oakland, and Universal. Her fonts paved the way for smooth traditional designs.

Erik Spiekermann (1947-Present)

Native of Stadthagen, Germany, Spiekermann ran a basement printing press to fund his studies at Berlin's Free University. He established the largest independent design firm at the time, MetaDesign. After leaving MetaDesign, he established United Designers Network with Susanna Dulkinys, which was renamed to SpiekermannPartners. FontShop International was also established with his wife Joan Spiekermann.

Joshua Darden (1979-Present)

From Northridge, California, Darden established his first design firm ScanJam at the early age of 13. At age 15, Darden published his first typeface Diva. He joined typefoundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones and established his own foundry Darden Studio.

[Information Summarized from Graphic Design Referenced and Letter Fountain: The Anatomy of Type]