Background
He was born Blue Point, New New York
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Tommy Thompson
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Career
In 1944 he became the first designer to earn royalties for a type design, from Photo Lettering Incorporated. for his Thompson Quill Script. Previously, designers had worked in house for foundries or had sold the rights to their faces outright. He maintained a studio in Norwalk, Connecticut and was the author of several books on type and lettering.
Thompson designed all of these foundry types:
Post Headletter (1943, Monotype), privately cast for the Saturday Evening Post.
Collier Heading (1946, Monotype), privately cast for Collier"s Magazine. Mademoiselle (1953, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by Herman Schnorr.
Originally cast for Mademoiselle Magazine, but later offered for general sale. Baltimore Script (1955, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by George Battee.
Additional weights of Futura for Intertype (1950s).
Thompson Quill Script (1953, American Type Founders), this was also made available for phototypesetting by Photo Lettering Incorporated.
