What is Type designer?
'''{{No references}}''' A '''type designer''', also known as [[typeface]] [[designer]], is someone who [[design]] [[Font|fonts]]. Fonts are the different styles of [[Letter|letters]] and [[Number|numbers]] that we see in [[Book|books]], [[Sign|signs]], [[advertisements]] and [[Website|websites]]. Type designers create these fonts by designing common [[Character (computing)|characters]] like [[Punctuation|punctuation marks]], [[Accent|accents]], [[Ligature (writing)|ligatures]], [[Asterisk|asterisks]], [[Quotation mark|quotation marks]] and [[Diacritic|diacritics]]. All these are called [[Glyph|glyphs]]. They publish their creations in various [[File format|file formats]], accompanied with a [[license]]. for use on [[Personal computer|computers]]. Type designers use their [[creativity]] and skills to make [[Alphabet|alphabets]] that look good and are easy to [[Literacy|read]]. They think about how each letter will fit together with the others to form [[Word|words]] and [[Sentence|sentences]]. They also consider things like spacing, [[size]] and style to make sure that the font is [[Legibility|legible]] and pleasing to the [[eye]]. Type design is considered an [[academic discipline]].To become a type designer, people often need to study [[graphic design]], [[typography]] or [[graphic arts]]. Some type designers work as [[Freelancer|freelancers]], creating fonts for their own projects or for [[Sales|sale]] to others. Others may work for [[companies]] called [[Type foundry|type foundries]] that specialize in creating fonts for [[web design]] and [[printing]]. Type designers use various tecnhiques and [[software]] to create fonts. They usually start by [[drawing]] out [[Idea|ideas]] on [[paper]]. This [[profession]] plays an important role in shaping the way people [[communicate]] through [[written language]]. == Related pages == *[[Graphic designer]] *[[Printer (publishing)]] *[[Helvetica]] *[[Times New Roman]] *[[Webdings]] == Other websites== * {{Commons-inline|Category:Type_designers|Type designers}} == Ref