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1. Robert Bringhurst

   Author of The Elements of Typographic Style, The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning
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2. Jan Tschichold

   Author of The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design, The New Typography (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism), Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering
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3. Ruari McLean

   Author of Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography, Typographers on Type, The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography
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4. Stanley Morison

   Author of A Tally of Types, Letter Forms (Typophile Chap Books, 45.), Four Centuries of Fine Printing
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5. Alexander S. Lawson

   Author of Anatomy of a Typeface, Printing Types: An Introduction
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6. Fiona MacCarthy

   Author of Eric Gill, William Morris: A Life for Our Time
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7. Ellen Lupton

   Author of Thinking with Type
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8. Paul W. Nash

   Author of Folio 60: 60 Years of Fine Books, Folio 50 : a bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1996
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9. Walter Tracy

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10. Frederic W. Goudy

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11. Umberto Eco

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12. Robin Williams

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13. Gerrit Noordzij

    Author of Letterletter, The Stroke: Theory of Writing
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14. David Kindersley

    Author of Eric Gill: Further Thoughts by an Apprentice, Letters Slate Cut: Workshop Practice and the Making of Letters
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15. Nicolas Barker

    Author of Folio 40
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16. Simon Garfield

    Author of Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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17. Malcolm Yorke

    Author of Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit, Edward Bawden & His Circle
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18. Sebastian Carter

    Author of Twentieth Century Type Designers
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19. Jost Hochuli

    Author of Designing Books: Practice and Theory, Detail In Typography
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20. Steven Heller

    Author of Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography, Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age
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21. Oliver Simon

    Author of Introduction to typography
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22. Simon Loxley

    Author of Type: The Secret History of Letters
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23. Hermann Zapf

    Author of About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design, Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy
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24. Erik Spiekermann

    Author of Stop Stealing Sheep & Find out How Type Works
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25. Warren Chappell

    Author of A Short History of the Printed Word
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26. Adrian Wilson

    Author of The Design of Books
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27. Michelle P. Brown

    Author of The Holkham Bible
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28. John Randle

    Author of Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix--The Review for Printers & Bibliophiles
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29. Dorothy L. Sayers

    Author of The Mind of the Maker
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30. Nicolete Gray

    Author of A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity
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31. René Guénon

    Author of Fundamental symbols : the universal language of sacred science, Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta, The Symbolism of the Cross
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32. Geoffrey Dowding

    Author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type (Classic Typography Series), An introduction to the history of printing types : an illustrated summary of the main stages in the development of type design from 1440 up to the present day : an aid to type face identification
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33. Philip Meggs

    Author of A History of Graphic Design
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34. Bruce Rogers

    Author of Paragraphs on Printing
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35. Daniel Berkeley Updike

    Author of Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use
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36. Edmund Burke

    Author of A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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37. John Dominic Crossan

    Author of Excavating Jesus : Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated
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38. Titus Burkhardt

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39. Leonard Koren

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40. Gerard Unger

    Author of While You're Reading
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41. James Sutton

    Author of Typefaces for Books, Atlas of Typeforms
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42. George Santayana

    Author of The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
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43. Thomas Nelson

    Author of The New American Bible, The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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44. Paul A. Bennett

    Author of Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles
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45. Burton H. Throckmorton

    Author of Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels, NRSV Edition, Gospel Parallels: A Synopsis of the First Three Gospels
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46. Jan Middendorp

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47. Harry Carter

    Author of A View of Early Typography: Up To About 1600
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48. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

    Author of Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art, The Transformation of Nature in Art, The Door in the Sky
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49. Sir Thomas Browne

    Author of The Voyce of the World: Selected Writings of Sir Thomas Browne
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50. Philip Gaskell

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