When the hand eventually reached its limits, type designers took over.
He was one of the leading type designers of his time.
It became the default form, but many type designers preferred (and still prefer) other forms.
But the same technology also allowed the best type designers greater freedom in making faces inspired by the classic types of earlier centuries.
There he received further training, not just as a type designer but also as a calligrapher.
Julian Waters (born 1957) is a calligrapher, type designer and teacher.
Soon after, he became one of the first type designers to predict that computers would both require and make possible digital typeface.
Christopher van Dyck was one of the type designers.
Several other type designers modelled typefaces from this popular typeface.
And so, two type designers were born.