Martin Wait
British font designer and graphic designer
About Martin Wait
Lived 1942 – 2012 (aged 69–70). Martin Wait was a typographer.
Martin Wait (1942–2012) was a British font designer and graphic designer. He was best known for his work for Letraset, which created dry transfer lettering used on advertising and other lettering projects.
Wait was born in Forest Gate in London and attended Lister Community School in Plaistow. Despite having dyslexia, he created custom lettering for advertising, including logos for Tetley's, the Radio Times, Fox's Glacier Mints and Alpen cereal. He later came to design fonts for Letraset and Monotype, often in the script typeface genre.
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British font designer and graphic designer
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Martin Wait was born in 1942.
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Martin Wait died in 2012.
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Martin Wait was a typographer.
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