Typesetting, women
“If, for example, you are setting a text by a woman, you might prefer a face, or several faces, designed by a woman. Such faces were rare or nonexistent in earlier centuries, but there are now a number to choose from. They include Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse’s admirable Alcuin, Carmina, Diotima and Nofret families; Elizabeth Friedlander’s Elizabeth; Kris Holmes’s Sierra and Lucida; Kris Holmes’s and Janice Prescott Fishman’s Shannon; Carol Twombly’s handsome text face Chaparral and her titling faces Charlemagne, Lithos, Nueva and Trajan; Zuzana Licko’s Journal and Mrs Eaves, and Ilse Schiile’s Rhapsodie. For some purposes, one might also go back to the work of Elizabeth Colwell, whose Colwell Handletter, issued by ATF in 1916, was the first American typeface designed by a woman.”
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style. Point Roberts, WA, etc. 2004: Hartley & Marks, p. 100. First edition 1992.