Roy Cole
Roy Cole (1932 - 2012) was a
type designer. His introduction to
type began at the age of fourteen with an apprenticeship in the
composing room of a printers in Idle, Bradford. This was followed by several years working as a
journeyman compositor in the UK and in
Switzerland. In 1960 he attended the
typography course at the
Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel, in Switzerland, under
Emil Ruder’s tutelage. In 1961 he married Maria Zenz from Austria, who he had met in Basel. There followed several years working as a salaried
typographer, both at home and overseas, and he also served as an assessor for the Society of Typographic Designers’ student assessments in the late 1970s–early 1980s. In 1981 he became a freelance
book designer for, amongst others, Philip Wilson Publishers, the
Ashmolean Museum and the
Bodleian Library. Then, in 1990, he was invited as foreign guest juror for Stiftung Buchkunst's Best German book design competition. In 2003 he formed
Roy Cole typography, a
type foundry based in Wells, England, dedicated to exploring and developing
type families in the
sans serif style.
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