Robert Norton (1929–2001) was a British publisher, consultant on printing and Microsoft executive.
[1][2] The son of the children's author Mary Norton, he established the company Photoscript, a phototypesetting technology company, before moving into digital font technology.
[1][3] He later moved to Seattle to take up a position as an executive at Microsoft, advising on fonts to be included with Windows.
[1][4][5] Many of the release notes accompanying Microsoft typefaces were written by him.
[4] While in Washington, he self-published the book Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten on good and bad choices of font.