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

graphic artist A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently. They are professionals in design and visual communication, with their primary focus on transforming l ...

and typeface designer. He was an assistant art director at Lanston Monotype before becoming director of the type design program at Intertype. He also designed

Phototypesetting Phototypesetting is a method of Typesetting, setting type which uses photography to make columns of Sort (typesetting), type on a scroll of photographic paper. It has been made obsolete by the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publ ...

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