Edwin W. Shaar
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{{short description|American writer and graphics artist}}
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| birth_date = January 1, 1915
| birth_place = Zion, Maryland, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|4|26|1915|1|1}}
| death_place = College Station, Texas, United States
| field = Typography
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Edwin W. Shaar (January 1, 1915 – April 26, 2001) was an American writer, graphic artist and typeface designer. He was an assistant art director at Lanston Monotype before becoming director of the type design program at Intertype. He also designed Phototypesetting faces.Edwin W. Shaar [http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-33008.html] (retrieved April 17, 2020){{cite web |title=Edwin Willis Shaar Sr. |url=http://www.genlookups.com/tx/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1494 |publisher=Genlookup |accessdate=23 April 2020}}
Typefaces
Shaar designed all of these foundry types:MacGrew, Mac, American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, {{ISBN|0-938768-34-4}}.
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- Czarin (Baltimore Type Foundry, 1939)
- Flash + Flash Bold (Lanston Monotype. 1939)
- Additions to Intertype's Futura series including:
- Futura Book Oblique
- Futura Demibold Oblique
- Futura Extra Bold (1952)
- Futura Script ( 1954)
- Futura Extra Bold Oblique (1955, with Tommy Thompson)
- Futura Extra Bold Condensed
- Futura Extra Bold Condensed Oblique
- Imperial + Imperial Italic (Intertype, 1957) Used by The New York Times since 1967.{{cite news |work=The New York Times |title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; A Face-Lift for The Times, Typographically, That Is |date=October 21, 2003 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/business/the-media-business-a-face-lift-for-the-times-typographically-that-is.html |access-date=August 7, 2018 |quote=The Times's text typeface, for news and editorials, remains Imperial, designed in the 1950s by Edwin W. Shaar and adopted by the newspaper in 1967.}} Later marketed as Gazette (Linotype, 1977).
- Nuptial Script (Intertype, 1952)
- Royal + Royal Italic + Royal Bold (Intertype, 1960)
- Satellite + Satellite Italic + Satellite Bold (Intertype, 1974)
- Valiant (Lanston Monotype, 1941)
- Additions to Intertype's Vogue series including:
- Vogue Extra Condensed
- Windsor + Windsor Bold (Intertype, 1960) A newspaper face unrelated to a face of the same name by Stephenson Blake.
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Shaar also designed these fotofonts:
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- Shaar Diane (Photo-Lettering Inc.)
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References
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