Rod McDonald

Rod McDonald lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He is a type designer and typographer who has produced typefaces that are sold worldwide by FontShop International and Agfa Monotype. He has also designed type for the range of Canadian periodicals, including Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Applied Arts, Saturday Night, and Canadian Business. Cartier Book, his reworking of Cartier, Canada’s first typeface, was chosen for inclusion in the Monotype Classics Library of typefaces. In 2002, he designed the magazine’s display typeface, TC Stillson, a modern recreation of Stillson, designed in 1899 by the renowned Chicago type foundry Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. Last updated Christmas, 2003.