Tommy Thompson (type designer)

Thompson designed all of these foundry types: • Post Headletter (1943, Monotype), privately cast for the The Saturday Evening Post. • Collier Heading (1946, Monotype), privately cast for ''Collier's'' magazine. • Mademoiselle (1953, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by Herman Schnorr. Originally cast for Mademoiselle magazine, but later offered for general sale. • Baltimore Script (1955, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by George Battee. • Additional weights of Futura for Intertype (1950s). • Thompson Quill Script (1953, American Type Founders), this was also made available for phototypesetting by Photo Lettering Inc. In addition, he prepared a version of Baskerville for the ATF Typesetter; this was the first 7-unit typeface for the machine, which previously used 5-unit typefaces similar to those used by the Justowriter on which it was built. (Later, in 1964, the ATF Typesetter Model B-8, offered an 18-increment system allowing further improved typesetting.) ==Books==

• The script letter; its form, construction and application, New York, The Studio Publications Inc., 1939. • The ABC Of Our Alphabet, 1945. • How to render roman letter forms. A pattern for understanding and drawing roman letters and other styles of lettering and type faces related to them, New York, American Studio Books, 1946. • Basic layout design; a pattern for understanding the basic motifs in design and how to apply them to graphic art problems, New York, Studio Publications, in association with Crowell, c. 1950. ==References==