Typography Essentials

Acknowledgments

My passion for the glorious things that are letterforms was first ignited by my calligraphy teacher at Cooper Union, Donald Kunz, who had studied under Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. A few years later, as president of the Society of Scribes, I had the privilege of inviting and hosting Lloyd, who was a gurulike spiritual leader to our lettering community as much as a scribe, to visit and teach in New York City. Other calligraphers taught and inspired me in the years that followed: Donald Jackson, Hermann Zapf, Alice Koeth, Lili Wronker, Paul Standard, Jeanyee Wong, Sheila Waters, Ewan Clayton, Peter Thornton, and many others. I engaged in lengthy (and beautifully written) correspondences with calligraphers ...