Representatives of Letterforms...

3. The Font Bureau, Inc.

Uniting two complementary professional backgrounds, publication designer Roger Black and type designer David Berlow founded The Font Bureau, Inc., in 1989. Drawing letteres by hand early in his career at the New York office of Linotype in 10978, Berlow's interest in and knack for digital typography grew when he joined Boston-based Bitstream in 1981 and adapted to the technologies of Adobe Postscript and, later, Apple's competing TrueType in the late 1980's.

Also taking advantage of the Macintosh was Black, a seasoned art director of magazines like Rolling Stone, New York, and Newsweek. He started his own business focusing on the design of newspapers and magazines in 1989, the same year he and Berlow establish Front Bureau. With Black embarking on numerous publication designs and Font Bureau creating proprietary type families, the foundry's output has ballooned to more than 1,500 typefaces that have their own flair.