Robert Norton (typographer)

Robert Norton (1929–2001) was a British publisher, consultant on printing and Microsoft executive.[1][2]

The son of the children's author Mary Norton, he established the company Photoscript, a phototypesetting technology company, before moving into digital font technology.[1][3] He later moved to Seattle to take up a position as an executive at Microsoft, advising on fonts to be included with Windows.[1][4][5] Many of the release notes accompanying Microsoft typefaces were written by him.[4] While in Washington, he self-published the book Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten on good and bad choices of font.[6]

He married Abigail Scully in the United States and had four children.[1] After retiring from Microsoft in 1997, he ran his fine press brand, the Parsimony Press, in Huntspill, Somerset.[7][8]

References
  1. Barker, Nicolas. "Robert Norton (obituary)". The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  2. Neil Macmillan (2006). An A-Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
  3. The truth about Westminster (the font!), Mercer Design]
  4. Berry, John. "The Mischievous Mind behind Microsoft's TrueType Fonts". Creative Pro. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  5. Beaumont-Thomas, Ben. "How we made the typeface Comic Sans". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  6. Norton, Robert (1993). A Collection of Observations on Types Best Remembered by Various People Charitably Disposed to an Expatriate. Kirkland: Parsimony Press. ISBN 1884606008.
  7. "It is with great sadness to report that our dear friend Robert passed away in peace last night". Microsoft. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  8. "The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
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