Richard Kegler is an American typographer and founding partner of

P22 type foundry P22 Type Foundry is a digital type foundry and letterpress printing studio based in Rochester, New York. The company was created in 1994 in Buffalo, New York by co-founders Richard Kegler and Carima El-Behairy. The company is best known for its t ...

, which originated in 1994 as an outgrowth of his Master's thesis project on

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

. Kegler's background in

typography 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

book arts Book arts may refer to: * Artist's book, a work of art in the form of a book * Book design, the art of designing a book * Book illustration, illustration in a book * Bookbinding Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex ...

includes ventures in

bookbinding Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers alon ...

and

letterpress printing Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual sheets of paper or a continuous roll of paper. A worker composes and locks movable t ...

. However, the historical context and background of

type Type may refer to: Science and technology Computing * Typing, producing text via a keyboard, typewriter, etc. * Data type, collection of values used for computations. * File type * TYPE (DOS command), a command to display contents of a file. * ...

continues to be his greatest interest and shapes the evolution of P22. Kegler is also the founder of the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative. Richard Kegler has designed the typefaces Daddy-O, Dwiggins, Dyrynk, Platten and Preissig Lino.

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