Doyald Young, 84, Designer of Typefaces, Dies

[lsanderson]

By STEVEN HELLER
Published: March 6, 2011

Doyald Young, a logotype designer and teacher whose three monographs on letterforms and alphabets, including the provocatively titled “Dangerous Curves,” reintroduced classical design principles to designers at a time when inelegant lettering was in vogue, died on Feb. 28 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 84. More