David Berlow

David Berlow

 

“I was a fine arts major and a friend approached me to draw a logo. I guess he figured drawing was drawing. The logo was for a local travel agency—and what I drew turned out to be completely typographic.”

 

David Berlow was born in Boston in 1955. studied at Wisconsin University and entered the type industry in 1978 as a letter designer for the respected Mergenthaler, Linotype,( a leading manufacturer in typesetting equipment0, Stempel, and Haas typefoundries. He joined the newly formed digital type supplier, Bitstream in 1982, where he developed fonts, font tools, and marketing stratagies. After Berlow left Bitstream in 1989, he founded The Font Bureau, Inc. with Roger Black. Font Bureau has developed more than 300 new and revised type designs for The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Hewlett Packard and others, with OEM work for Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation. The Font Bureau Retail Library consists mostly of original designs and now includes over 500 typefaces. Worked to create original truetype fonts. Berlow is a member of the New York Type Directors Club and the Association Typographique International, and remains active in typeface design

 

Fonts he had designed:

 

Agency FB
Agency FB Condensed
Agency FB Wide
Belizio
Belucian
Berlin Sans
FF Berlinsans
Bureau Grotesque Five Three
Bureau Grotesque One Three
Bureau Grotesque Three Seven
Bureau Grotesque Three Three
Californian FB
Californian FB Display
Californian FB Text
Charcoal
Cheltenham FB Bold Condensed
Eagle
Eldorado Display
Eldorado Micro
Eldorado Text
Empire (FB)
ITC Franklin Gothic Compressed
ITC Franklin Gothic Condensed
Gadget
Giza One Five
Giza One One
Giza One Three Giza Seven Nine
Meyer Two
Numskill
Phaistos
Rhode Medium Extended
Rhode Medium Normal
Romeo Medium Condensed
Techno
Throhand Ink Italic
Throhand Ink Roman
Throhand Ink Roman (FB)
Throhand Pen Italic
Throhand Pen Roman
Throhand Pen Roman (FB)
Throhand Regular Italic
Throhand Regular Roman
Throhand Regular Roman (FB)
Titling Gothic
Titling Gothic Compressed
Titling Gothic Condensed
Titling Gothic Extended
Titling Gothic Narrow
Titling Gothic Skyline
Truth
Truth Light
Truth Ultra
Village