Paul Arthur Bennett (March 22, 1897 – December 18, 1966) was an American

typographer Typography is the art and technique of Typesetting, arranging type to make written language legibility, legible, readability, readable and beauty, appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, Point (typogra ...

and author.

Biography

Paul Arthur Bennett was born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

on March 22, 1897. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at 19, near the end of

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

. He served overseas from November 1918 to June 1919. Bennett was an Advertising Manager of the Chandler Motor Co, in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1920s. More papers of Bennett appear in the early 1930s with the development of the Typophiles. Bennett joined the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. in 1928. The Mergenthaler Linotype helps clients on matter of design, production, advertising, and general correspondence. Bennett took over the Typophiles in the early 1930s. The Typophiles is a group of men that were "interested in graphics and fine printing." Typophiles' membership, attendance, and orders written by Bennett are now housed in the New York Public Library Archives. Bennett was director of typography for the

Mergenthaler Linotype Company The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was a company founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine (), a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It became the world's leading manufacturer ...

in the

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for 30 years before his retirement in 1962. Other clients included Fuller-Smith, Dunlop-Ward, the Chandler Motor Company. He wrote several papers, monographs, and keepsakes for ''The Typophiles'', and also edited the book ''Books and Printing'' (1951). Bennett was a leading member of the Typophiles Society in New York City. He died in his home in

Jackson Heights, Queens Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the borough of Queens in New York City. Jackson Heights is neighbored by North Corona to the east, Elmhurst to the south, Woodside to the west, and today northern Astoria ( Ditm ...

Notable awards

1961 AIGA Gold Medal

References

1897 births 1966 deaths AIGA medalists American typographers and type designers Writers from Brooklyn People from Jackson Heights, Queens American military personnel of World War I {{typ-stub