Patricia saunders biography

Born Patricia Mullett on 7 June 1933, Patricia Saunders was educated at Reigate County School for Girls and, after a two-year spell working in an art bookshop, she joined the Monotype Drawing Office in Salfords, Surrey, in 1951.

Hired and trained as a drawing clerk, Patricia contributed to the making of many Monotype faces such as Castellar, Spectrum, and Glint Ornaments, as well as non-Latin designs which were originated in-house.

Like most of the women who worked in the Type Drawing Office, Patricia’s work involved the completion of character sets for hot-metal typefaces, as well as the drawing of optical sizes, and the development of weight and width variants for existing designs.

When she started out at Monotype, Patricia claimed that the drawing clerks were not encouraged to know the name or the history of typefaces. But