Edwin W. Shaar (January 1, 1915 – April 26, 2001) was an American writer,

graphic artist A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published me ...

and

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. He was an assistant art director at

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before becoming director of the type design program at Intertype. He also designed

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faces.Edwin W. Shaa

(retrieved April 17, 2020)

Typefaces

Shaar designed all of these moveable type, foundry types:MacGrew, Mac, ''American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century,'' Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, . Shaar also designed these fotofonts:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaar, Edwin W. American typographers and type designers 1915 births American artists 2001 deaths