Gerard Unger
Dutch type designer Gerard Unger has a new website. None of his typefaces escaped ‘Ungerfication’ – they are distinctly his own, always with extremely incisive, elegant curves. He designed several typefaces for newspapers (Swift, Coranto, Gulliver), for the Dutch highway sign system, amongst others. His website has detailed notes on all of his designs.

Johnathan Hoefler
Johnathan Hoefler worked for Rolling Stone magazine before he found his own foundry, The Hoefler Type Foundry. He is a type historian and an excellent type designer who specializes in revival designs, which are well-used by US magazines. Their Didot, in my opinion, simply cannot be surpassed. He received the Prix Charles Peignot award at the ATypI conference in Rome last September.

Jean-François Porchez
Owner of the Porchez Typofounderie, Porchez has some excellent, and not to mention very French, type designs. He has designed typefaces for the Le Monde newspaper and the Paris Metro. He recently completed a new version of Sabon for Linotype, named Sabon Next, which is a closer rendition of Jan Tschichold’s original design intensions without the technical limitations of the Linotype machine. Porchez’s website has some good articles on typography and type design.

Jeremy Tankard
A London-based British type designer. His best known typeface is probably Bliss, a sanserif inspired by Edward Johnston’s underground type for London Transport.

Luc(as) de Groot
Has a website selling his own designs. Most of his type families were designed with corporate communication in mind. His most extensive, well-known and widely used type family is probably Thesis, which consist of a sanserif, serif, slab-serif as well as semi-serif font variants.

Christopher Burke
Author of Paul Renner: the art of typography, Burke received his PhD at the University of Reading and was a former course director of the MA Typeface Design program at the same university. His Celeste, Pragma and Parable are excellent typefaces.

LettError
“Letters are programs, not results of programs.” – EvB
Dubbed by Erik Spiekermann as the ‘random twins’ of type design, Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum are typeface designers, programmers and illustrators from The Hague and Haarlem in the Netherlands respectively. They founded LettError in 1990 with the random Type 3 font family Beowolf, where each letter’s outline are different when it is rasterized on a PostScript printer. Their latest masterpiece is Twin, a multiple axis typeface that change according to context (even influenced by weather!), winner of a call for proposal for the 2003 Design Celebration in Minneapolis–St Paul.

Jason Smith
Owner of FontSmith, specializes in custom type for corporate clients, for example the British post office.

Dalton Maag
Founded by Swiss type designer Bruno Maag, Dalton Maag is a London-based type studio specializes in developing typefaces for corporate clients such as BMW.

Victor Gaultney
One of my former schoolmates at the University of Reading. He works for SIL International and developed a typeface called Gentium (meaning ‘for the nations’) – a large extended latin, Greek and Cyrillic typeface. It is available for free download on the SIL website.

Peter Bilak
Based in The Hague, the Netherlands, Peter Bilak is a type designer, graphic designer, educator, writer and publisher. He is the founder of the visual culture magazine dot-dot-dot. His notable type designs include FF Eureka, Federa Sans and Federa Serif. He typefaces can be purchased from Typotheque.

Petr van Blokland
Dutch type and graphic designer based in Delft. Designer of the Proformer and Productus typefaces distributed by Font Bureau.

James Montalbano
Owner of the Brooklyn-based digital type and lettering design studio Terminal Design. Designer of a few good typefaces including Clearview, a typeface for highway signs which will be implemented in highways across the US.

Eric Olson
Owner of Process Type Foundry based in St Paul, MN who publishes several families of text and display typefaces. He is a design fellow at the Design Institute, Minneapolis.

Mark Simonson
Mark Simonson is a Minneapolis-based graphic designer, letterer and type designer. He has a number of type designs that were inspired by hand lettering and several text typefaces. His website includes several interesting type-related articles.

Alejandro Lo Celso
From Argentina, owner of Pampa Type. Graduate of the University of Reading.

Nick Shinn
A Canadian type designer based in Toronto. Originally a publication designer, he founded Shinn Type in 1999, a small independent type foundry based in Toronto. His type designs include Worldwide, a headline face created for the Canadian national newspaper Globe and Mail. He has a number of articles related to type and graphic design on his website.

Vincent Connare
A Reading graduate, designer of the popular (albeit overused) Comic Sans and Trebuchet, both Microsoft systems. An experienced TrueType hinter, he hinted the first set of Apple TrueType fonts including Times. He now works as a font engineer at Dalton Maag, London. His essay The type designs of William Addison Dwiggins is a fascinating read.