Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 - May 18, 1957) was an American typographer born in Lafayette, Indiana. He is one of the best known and regarded typographers of the twentieth century. 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lafayette (IPA: ) is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Indianapolis. ... A typographer (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) practices typography (the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications). ...

Known mostly for his use of typography in book design rather than typeface design, Rogers designed several faces including Centaur, a project for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a member of the Typophiles. Rogers designed more than 400 books. He is perhaps best known for his masterpiece, the Oxford Lectern Bible. Centaur is an old style serif typeface originally drawn as titling capitals by Bruce Rogers in 1914 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... A New York organization dedicated to the study and enjoyment of typography, type design, and related arts. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Rogers received a B.S. from Purdue University in 1890. At Purdue, he worked with political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon on the student newspaper and yearbook. Purdue redirects here. ... John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870-June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist. ...

Rogers died on May 18, 1957 in New Fairfield, Connecticut. His papers are in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Fairfield is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. ... Yale Universitys Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. ...

Additional Reading

• Rogers, Bruce. Pi; a hodge-podge of the letters, papers, and addresses written during the last sixty years, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
• ——. Paragraphs on Printing, NY: Dover Publications, 1980. Reprint of first edition (NY: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1943).
• Targ, William. The making of the Bruce Rogers World Bible, Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1949.
• Warde, Frederic. Bruce Rogers, designer of books And Bruce Rogers: a bibliography; hitherto unrecorded work 1889-1925, complete works 1925-1936, by Irvin Haas. Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, 1936; Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968.

External links

• An exhibit of Rogers' work at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts
• An article on Centaur, a font designed by Rogers, in Harvard Magazine
• WorldCat Identities page for 'Rogers, Bruce 1870-1957'

Source

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006.