Ray Nash (February 27, 1905 – May 21, 1982)[1][2] was an American graphic arts historian and expert on calligraphy and the history of printing.
In 1937 he began a long association with Dartmouth College as a lecturer; he received a graduate degree there in 1949 (along with an M.A.
[2][3] Nash ran the Graphic Arts Workshop at Dartmouth from 1937 until 1970.
[3] In 1945, Nash designed a new railroad schedule for the Boston & Maine Railroad featuring legible typography and cartoon illustrators to decipher the previously confusing data.
He was an officer of the Order of Leopold from the Belgian Government and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of Antiquaries of London.