are you looking for type designers? A typographer is something different.

Ok one more pair:
Carol Twombly & http://www.designwritingresearch.org/essays/women.html

Rebecca Alaccari
http://www.canadatype.com/

- Clotilde Olyff

She used to design typefaces but she also created logos, stamp for the belgian postal service, sculpture inspired by letters, beautiful wooden objects and a lot of other things.
An exhibition of her work is being held in Brussels but the website shows very little of the content :
http://users.skynet.be/rouge-cloitre.ca/clotilde_olyff,_biographie.htm
Three photos of an earlier (and very small) exhibition :
http://www.pixels-et-papier.be/blog/?p=18

I think there was a thread like this about a year ago where many women typographers were listed?

ChrisL

Sara Soskolne works at Hoefler & Frere-Jones. She graduated from the Type Design program at Reading in 2002. Scroll down a bit.

I wish more of them frequented Typophile. Its like the Oscar Meyer factory in here! Tiff, Linda, Patty and Andi (and others) must have their hands full trying to balance out the testoterone. This is a great thread. Thanks for the links Peter and Tiff.

I second that Terry. Well said.

Women typographers past? Beatrice Warde.

Women typographers present? Catherine Dixon.

Elizabeth Friedlander, one of the earliest.

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/printers/Friedlande...

http://www.neufville.com/uk/start_uk.htm

George
I felt bad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no Bodoni

Linda, he put you ahead because he knows you have a chainsaw and a sledgemammer and aren't afraid to use them :-)

ChrisL

Johanna Biľak
http://www.typotheque.com/authors/johanna_bilak/

Gee, more information than I wanted to know about your brand of masochism... ;-)

Nina David
www.ninadavid.de

> I’ve also got a large number of very pointy things like 1.25 mm stainless steel knitting needles. ;-)

Knitting is my favorite hobby!
I’ve got Only One tool that does the work of 3 pointy things: needle, nail and screw. Multipurpose! ;-)

Happy knitting with Flowers

To the ladies (and friends) who helped to build Compugraphic/Agfa into something more:

Kris Holmes
Janice Prescott Fishman (a different link for Prescott)
Constance Blanchard
Renée LeWinter
Cynthia Hollandsworth Batty (mentioned previously)
Sue Zafarana

Patty King

The question was about female typographers, the respondents have moved sideways towards type designers. One can be both, but not usually. Type designers are rarely typographers. More rarely–good ones.

Some names of notable female typographers, Línea Gentry, San Francisco, Edna Beilenson, Peter Pauper Press, Bertha Goudy. I do not have a reference including memory but John Henry Nash worked with an excellent female typographer in his plant.

Not to mention Fiona Garrick. Although many typographers remain nameless it was not uncommon to have female typographers in the hot metal days.

Giampa

Margaret Calvert.

Luce Avérous
Diane Collier
Shelley Winter

Plenty of bald white guys with wire-rim specs, though.

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http://new.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200912.html

I've worked in the printing industry for the past 5 years and I'm wondering if there are any online/correspondence courses in Canada to take to become a font creater? Is it a graphics art degree or a specialized course? Thanks!

This is really interesting : "Herederas de la letra: Mujeres y tipografía en la “Nueva España” -

http://www.unostiposduros.com/?p=577

Wow! Thanks.

But where's Teri Kahan & Carol Kemp?