Jackson Burke

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Jason Burke (San Francisco, California 1908 - 1975) was a book designer who succeeded C.H. Griffith as Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler-Linotype from 1948 until 1963. He designed the Trade Gothic, Majestic and Aurora typefaces (among others) during this time.

He was also responsible for a number of other achievements at Mergenthaler-Linotype including:

  • development of fonts for native American languages[1]
  • development of the TeleTypesetting System (TTS) for magazine use
  • development and implementation of the first phase of Linotype Group's photocomposition library[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
  2. ^ MyFonts.com - Jackson Burke
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