See Your Favorite Font Designers
If you’re a type freak like me, you’ll enjoy meeting the faces behind the fonts. Go to www.FontShop.com and under “Browse Fonts” roll over “Designer”.
A list of the designers of some of the most popular fonts in history appears, and when you roll over one of them, their photo appears along with a short list of the most popular fonts they designed.
It’s a terrific way to get a connection to a font designer, and also see a connection between the fonts that he or she designed.
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn’t writing about the graphic design world, he’s talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer’s Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.