Rosemary Sassoon

Rosemary Sassoon | 1931

Sassoon was trained as a scribe and a designer. She explores the methods of teaching handwriting. First looking at calligraphy and handwriting on how children learn to read, she started investigating the subject further. She gained a Ph.D. in her work of developing the ‘Sassoon Primary’ typeface. This typeface was modeled on fonts found in early school books in the twentieth-century. The ‘Sassoon’ typeface is characterized by its harmony between the spaces inside and outside the letters as well as their soft, almost ornamental forms. The ‘Sassoon’ type family already encompassed more than twelve different typefaces for educational purposes. In addition, she turned her attention to screen fonts and examined how typography can influence the absorption of information and has published extensive textbooks related to her field of research.

Typefaces

• Sassoon Book (1995) • Sassoon Felt (2004) • Sassoon Infant (1995) • Sassoon Joined Nordic (2001) • Sassoon Patterns (1988) • Sassoon Joined English (2001) • Sassoon Primary (1990) • Sassoon Montessori (1988) • Sassoon Sans (1995) • Sassoon Write (2007) • Sassoon Primary Cond. (1990)