Fred Smeijers (Eindhoven, 1961) is a Dutch type designer, researcher and writer, educated at the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem in the early 1980s. Smeijers is the creative director and co-founder of the typeface design and publishing company Type By.In 2019 Smeijers was appointed Professor in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in the UK.