Zuzana Licko

Slovak graphic designer

Zuzana Licko (born 1961) is an American font designer and typographer.[1][2][3][4] She created fonts like Citizen and Matrix.[1][4]

Early Life

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Licko was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.[2][5][4] She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981 with a degree in Graphic Communications.[2][5]

Career

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Licko started a magazine company called Emigre Graphics with her husband, Rudy VanderLans.[1][5] Her fonts mainly look bold and geometric.[2] One of her fonts, Matrix, was featured in many commercials.[1] She also designed fonts for the first Apple Macintosh 128k computer.[5][3] Five of her fonts from Emigre were used in MoMA New York in 2011.[5]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Riechers, Angela (May 24th, 2016). "Emigre Type Foundry Pretty Much Designed the '90s---Here's What it Looked Like". AOGA Eye on Design.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Emigre: Essays - Critical Conditions:Zuzana Licko, Rudy V..." www.emigre.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Zuzana Licko". Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Eye Magazine | Feature | Reputations: Zuzana Licko". Eye Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Zuzana Licko | Adobe Fonts". fonts.adobe.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.