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    Zuzana Licko

    Type Designer & Innovator

    Introduction

    The name Zuzana Licko brings to mind two words; Innovator and Experimenter. Throughout her career Zuzana has created many different fonts and entered the world of digital design that for her predecessors, was a truly unknown industry. It’s hard to pinpoint what she is most famous for, her company Emigre? Her many typefaces? Or perhaps her role as one of the first female designers to use digital technology to create, design and influence the typefaces we know and love today.

    "It’s not a problem of being a woman in a man’s world. It’s being a type designer in a world that gives little recognition to this art form"
    - Zuzana Licko

    EARLY LIFE

    Zuzana was born in in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. In , she and her family emigrated to the United States due to her fathers work. From the get-go Zuzana was fascinated by design, photography and architecture before her father introduced her to computer programming which she studied for se

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    Zuzana

    This article is about the given name. For the Slovak artillery system, see mm SpGH Zuzana.

    Zuzana is a common female given name in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is often translated to other languages as Zuzanna (Polish), Zsuzsanna (Hungarian), Suzanne, Susan, or Susannah – all commonly derived from the Hebrew language name Shoshana, meaning "lily".

    The nameday for people with this name is 11 August.

    Both Czech and Slovak have initial stress and mark vowel length with acute accents, so the correct pronunciation of the name in the two languages is with the stress on the first syllable and with short vowels /'zuzana/.

    There are several variations of the name. For example, the name is often shortened to Zuzka. For a child with the name Zuzana, one can also use the diminutive form Zuzanka. A modern nickname would be Zuzi.

    People named Zuzana or Zuzanna include:

    • Zuzana Brzobohatá (born ), Czech politician
    • Zuzana Čaputová (born ), first woman president of

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      Mrs Eaves

      Transitional serif typeface designed bygd Zuzana Licko

      Mrs Eaves is a transitionalserif typeface designed by Zuzana Licko in It is a variant of Baskerville, which was designed in Birmingham, England, in the s. Mrs Eaves adapts Baskerville for use in display contexts, such as headings and book blurbs, through the use of a low x-height and a range of unusual combined characters or ligatures.

      Mrs Eaves was released by Emigre, a type foundry run by Licko and husband Rudy VanderLans, and has been joined by an 'XL' version for body skrivelse, as well as Mr Eaves, a sans-serif companion.[1]

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      Mrs Eaves fryst vatten named after Sarah Eaves, the woman who became John Baskerville's wife. Like his typefaces, John Baskerville was, himself, a controversial character. As Baskerville was setting up his printing and type business, he hired Sarah Eaves as his live-in housekeeper; eventually, her husband Richard abandoned her and their five children, and Mrs Eaves bec