{{Infobox artist | name = Tommy Thompson | image = | caption = | birth_name = Samuel Winfield Thompson | birth_date = 1906 | birth_place = Blue Point, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death year and age|1967|1906}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | known_for = Typography | training = | movement = | notable_works = Thompson Quill Script | patrons = | awards = }}

'''Samuel Winfield''' "'''Tommy'''" '''Thompson'''<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1946|author=Library of Congress. Copyright Office|date=1947|publisher=Copyright Office, Library of Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTMhAQAAIAAJ|page=654|accessdate=2015-04-10}}</ref> (1906–1967)<ref name="Profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.myarnolds.com/individual.php?pid=I82131&ged=Arnold.ged |title=Samuel Winfield Thompson 1906–1967 - Arnold-Moberly Families &#124; Tommy Thompson's family profile |publisher=myarnolds.com|accessdate=2015-04-10}}</ref> was an American calligrapher, graphic artist and typeface designer. He was born Blue Point, New York. In 1944 he became the first designer to earn royalties for a type design, from Photo Lettering Inc. for his Thompson Quill Script. Previously, designers had worked in house for foundries or had sold the rights to their faces outright. He maintained a studio in Norwalk, Connecticut and was the author of several books on type and lettering.<ref>Rollins, Carl Purlington ''American Type Designers and Their Work.'' in Print, V. 4, #1, p.18.</ref>

==Typefaces== Thompson designed all of these foundry types:<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/americanmetaltyp0000mcgr|author=MacGrew, Mac|title=American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century|publisher=Oak Knoll Books|location=New Castle Delaware|date=1993|isbn=0-938768-34-4}}</ref> * '''Post Headletter''' (1943, Monotype), privately cast for the ''The Saturday Evening Post''. * '''Collier Heading''' (1946, Monotype), privately cast for ''Collier's'' magazine. * '''Mademoiselle''' (1953, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by Herman Schnorr. Originally cast for ''Mademoiselle'' magazine, but later offered for general sale. * '''Baltimore Script''' (1955, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by George Battee. * Additional weights of '''Futura''' for Intertype (1950s). * '''Thompson Quill Script''' (1953, American Type Founders), this was also made available for phototypesetting by Photo Lettering Inc.

In addition, he prepared a version of Baskerville for the ATF Typesetter; this was the first 7-unit typeface for the machine, which previously used 5-unit typefaces similar to those used by the Justowriter on which it was built.<ref>Underwood, Richard G., ''Production and Manufacturing Problems of American University Presses,'' Association of American University Presses, 1960.</ref> (Later, in 1964, the ATF Typesetter Model B-8, offered an 18-increment system allowing further improved typesetting.)

==Books== * ''The script letter; its form, construction and application,'' New York, The Studio Publications Inc., 1939. * ''The ABC Of Our Alphabet'', 1945. * ''How to render roman letter forms. A pattern for understanding and drawing roman letters and other styles of lettering and type faces related to them,'' New York, American Studio Books, 1946. * ''Basic layout design; a pattern for understanding the basic motifs in design and how to apply them to graphic art problems,'' New York, Studio Publications, in association with Crowell, c. 1950.

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