About the Yale Identity
For more than a century, Yale has employed graphic arts professionals to shape and support its communications efforts. In 1920, Carl Purington Rollins, an established printer and designer, was appointed Printer to the University, making Yale the first institution of higher education in the United States to establish such a role. Rollins spent the next 30 years designing thousands of books and ephemeral pieces. This body of work for Yale is the typographic foundation of the “look and feel” that distinguishes the university to this day.