Mike Parker

American, 1929 - 2014

Mike Russell Parker was born in London and educated at Yale University. He wanted to be a geologist like his father, but his colorblindness left him unable to classify rocks and strata. He instead majored in architecture and design and worked at Jackson Burke’s assistant at Mergenthaler Linotype Company. He later founded his own type design company, Bitstream Inc., which focused on digital type and therefore survived the rise of desktop publishing while other typography companies foundered. After leaving Bitstream in 1987, Parker worked at four other type design companies: The Company, Pages Software, Design Intelligence, and Font Bureau. At Font Bureau, he made his most famous breakthrough: he rediscovered a 1904 Roman design by Starling Burgess and repackaged it as the “Starling” type series. Parker died in Portland, Maine in 2014.

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