Jackson Burke was an American

United States

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 type and book designer. After studying at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, he succeeded C.H. Griffith

Chauncey H. Griffith

Chauncey H. Griffith , American printer and typeface designer. Griffith was born in the U.S. state of Ohio, and began his career as a compositor and pressman. In 1906 he joined the Mergenthaler Linotype Company as part of their sales force...

 as Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler Linotype from 1949 until 1963, where he designed several type faces.

He was also responsible for a number of other achievements at Mergenthaler-Linotype including:

• development of fonts for native American languages
• development of the TeleTypesetting System (TTS) for magazine use
• development and implementation of the first phase of Linotype Group's photocomposition
  Phototypesetting
  Phototypesetting was a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper...
  
   library

Type Faces

• Trade Gothic series
  Trade Gothic
  Trade Gothic is a sans-serif typeface first designed in 1948 by Jackson Burke , who continued to work on further style-weight combinations until 1960 while he was director of type development for Mergenthaler-Linotype in the USA...
  
  (Linotype), considered by some to be a knock-off of M.F. Benton's
  Morris Fuller Benton
  Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...
  
   News Gothic
  News Gothic
  News Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and released by the American Type Founders in 1908. The typeface was originally drawn in two lighter weights, a medium text weight using the title News Gothic, and a closely related light weight marketed under the name...
  
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  • Trade Gothic Condensed + Bold (1948)
  • Trade Gothic Extra Condensed + Bold (1948)
  • Trade Gothic + Bold (1955)
  • Trade Gothic Extended + Bold (1959)
  • Trade Gothic Light + Italic (1962)
• Majestic + Bold (1955, Linotype), some sources credit this face to Burke, while others simply list it as being created by "staff designers".
• Aurora
  Aurora (typeface)
  Aurora is a serif typeface, designed by Jackson Burke in 1960. The font is a darker derivative of the Corona typeface, initially designed for the Canada NewsWire....
  
   + Italic (1960, Linotype), only made in 8.5 point.