typographer

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Frederiksen was born into a working class family of longstanding Social Democrats, her father a typographer and mother a pre-school teacher.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Frederiksen, raised by a typographer father and a mother who worked in daycare, joined youth politics to fight social inequality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Back then, the personal computer revolution was just beginning, and typographer Vincent Connaire was working on new fonts.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2021

On this day in 1829, 189 years ago, an inventor named William Austin Burt patented a typographer, an early writing machine and forerunner to the typewriter.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2018

This primer of design is an earnest effort to make intelligible to the apprentice student certain fundamental principles of arrangement and of ornamentation whose use is instinctive to the accomplished typographer.

From Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 by Gage, Harry Lawrence