Artists I've looked into 5

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200712.html

Ellinor Maria Rapp

Field of Work: Typography

Owns and submits work onto Font Garden, for selling her typeface designs and customer submitted hand writing inspired typefaces.

Very interesting typographer as she actually combines Hand Lettering and Typography - by scanning in real peoples hand writing and altering them into a typeface.

"Then after I had digitized all possible variants of my own boring handwriting, I started to make fonts of other people’s handwriting."

Rapp, E. M. (2006) My Fonts: Creative Characters: Ellinor Maria Rapp, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200712.html, viewed on 18/09/2013

--->>Inspiration: Ray Larabie,  Foundary - Ronna Penner<<---

Most typefaces she designs are incomplete familys, sometimes this is because of the samples of handwriting she receives from customers are just reciepts and therefore incomplete enough to add in special fonts of diacritics.  closest to a complete family are Norah and Jacky.  

She likes to work fast and gets impatient to fully make a font family also, or just wants to put that font out there already onto the Font Garden.

Nadja typeface:

Rebecca Typeface

Typefaces found at: http://www.myfonts.com/person/Ellinor_Maria_Rapp/

Xavier Dupre

Field of Work: Typography

Trained in both Typography and Calligraphy.  Used to work solely on computer designing typefaces, now works on paper and uses ink or paints.

Designed a slab serif by looking at old film poster title as a template, altered some of the geometricness of the shapes and also formed a bold typeface of it, was in italics the first making.  This one was Mislab.

Dupre, X. (2013) ILoveTypography: Interview with Xavier Dupre, available at: http://ilovetypography.com/2013/09/13/interview-xavier-dupre/, viewed on 19/09/2013.

Stating that he normal starts on the roman typeface in the family, either way he starts in this way:

" I initially draw some lower-case a-e-i-l-n-o-d, then the others and always v-w-y-z then x finally. The diagonal lowercase are less interesting in my eyes because they don’t have curves. Then I work on the uppercase, the numerals and all the signs required of a font"

Dupre, X. (2013) ILoveTypography: Interview with Xavier Dupre, available at: http://ilovetypography.com/2013/09/13/interview-xavier-dupre/, viewed on 19/09/2013.

--->>Influences: (early) José Mendoza, (later) Hermann Zapf, Robert Slimbac, Eric Gill..etc <<---


http://ilovetypography.com/2013/09/13/interview-xavier-dupre/