Typographer

A visual communicator or layout artist who arranges, styles, and composes existing letterforms based on a deep understanding of layout principles and visual hierarchy is known as a typographer.

The same line-drawn portrait as the type designer, reversed out in white on a solid blue field — two lowercase “a”s for eyes inside the round lenses, an “l” for the nose and an underscore for the mouth — a typographer, who arranges existing type rather than drawing it.

A visual communicator or layout artist who arranges, styles, and composes existing letterforms based on a deep understanding of layout principles and visual hierarchy is known as a typographer. This role is entirely distinct from that of a type designer, who is the craftsman responsible for actually drawing and engineering the original character shapes from scratch.

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Iveta Stoyanova

Iveta is the Social Media & Community Manager at Fontfabric. With a background in Rhetoric & Speech Communication, she writes about the human side of typography, the inspiration behind new typefaces, choosing the right font for your project, and font licensing.