Typographer's nicknames? Hey, 10 Point.

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I watched an awesome western movie called Zorro's Black Whip. There's a drunken typesetter in the episodes nicknamed Ten Point ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro%27s_Black_Whip

It got me to thinking... anymore nick names out there for typographers / type designers / typesetters?

[Riccardo Sartori]

Well, in this forum we have Bald Condensed and Ill Sans, among others...

[Maxim Zhukov]

Vladimir Yefimov’s nickname was ‘Jeff’.

[hrant]

A name that shall forever live in infamy...
http://www.typophile.com/user/9688
http://www.typophile.com/node/15213
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brew/44639471
(I had nothing to do with it, except existing.)

hhp