Martin Majoor
- January 5, 2024
- Graphic Designer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Martin Majoor |
| Occupation | Graphic Designer |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 14, 1960(1960-10-14) |
| Age | 64 |
| Birthplace | Baarn |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Birth City | Utrecht |
| Horoscope | Libra |
Martin Majoor Biography
| Name | Martin Majoor |
| Birthday | Oct 14 |
| Birth Year | 1960 |
| Place Of Birth | Baarn |
| Home Town | Utrecht |
| Birth Country | Netherlands |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
Martin Majoor is one of the most popular and richest Graphic Designer who was born on October 14, 1960 in Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands. Majoor was born on the 20th of June, 1960. He is from the city of Baarn within Utrecht, a province in the Dutch Province of Utrecht.
When he was in 1986 Majoor became a researcher in the Research Department at Oce and studied the use of fonts on monitors for computers. He also studied the fonts used for laser printing for Bitstream.
From 1990 to 1995, Majoor taught typography at the Schools of Fine Arts in Arnhem and Breda.
In 1991, FontShop International released Scala as FF Scala, the first ‘serious’ text face in its FontFont library. Scala expanded to a superfamily providing both serif and sans-serif faces with FF Scala Sans, released in
- Both have sold well since their introduction.
As a student, Majoor went to URW Type Foundry in 1984. He utilized the company’s Ikarus system to create the typeface Serre that did not see release.
Martin Majoor Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Graphic Designer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Martin Majoor is one of the richest Graphic Designer from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martin Majoor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Martin Majoor (born (1960-10-14 ) 14 October, 1960) is a Dutch graphic and type designer from the Netherlands. designer from the Netherlands. In 2006, he was working from 1997 both in Arnhem, Netherlands and Warsaw, Poland.
Majoor was a student at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Arnhem (Academy of Fine Arts Arnhem) which is which is now part of the ArtEZ University of the Arts in the year the year 1980. He graduated in 1986.
In 1988, Majoor became a graphic designer for the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, where he designed concert programmes. Frustration with limited availability of professional fonts on the institution’s Macintosh computers led him to develop his own font, Scala.
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In 2001 the FF Seria family was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2001 in London and a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the ATypI Type Design Competition ‘Bukva:raz!’ in Moscow.
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Martin Ranked on the list of most popular Graphic Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Martin Majoor celebrates birthday on October 14 of every year.
Majoor started on an alternative version of Seria, but this became a larger project. The result was released in 2004 as FF Nexus , Majoor’s third superfamily and FontFont’s first OpenType product. It has serif, sans-serif, slab serif (‘Mix’), and monospaced variants. OpenType feature support includes small caps in all weights, text figures, tabular figures, ligatures, and two sets of swash characters.