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Yale University was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School in the home of Abraham Pierson in Killingworth, Connecticut. In 1716 the school moved to New Haven and was renamed Yale College in 1718.
Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University has graduated Nobel Prize laureates, Supreme Court justices, and U.S. Presidents.
The Yale University Press logo was designed by Paul Rand, who taught graphic design at Yale from 1956 until 1993.
In 2004, Matthew Carter introduced an institutional typeface to be used in all of the university’s print and web efforts. The Yale typeface is available to all Yale students and employees.
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