All of my published designs have been created to enable computing for under-supported language and script communities. They have been published by SIL International, and developed with the help of my talented colleagues on the SIL Writing Systems Technology team. All are freely available under the SIL Open Font License. Read more...

The design of diacritics has cultural and linguistic dimensions, however it is mostly an exercise in problem-solving. This essay looks at the some of the difficulties of designing diacritics and how designers have approached solutions. Read more...

The first public product of my research into italics was a presentation given at ATypI Montréal in 2017. This is the story of how italic established itself as part of our typographic language, was transformed as it was relegated to secondary roles, and yet remains a strong and essential part of typeface design. Read more...

New This presentation is a twenty-minute, rapid, and brief introduction to the italic design process, based on my italics research, and prepared for ATypI All Over 2020. This video is a good starting point if you read nothing else about italic design. Read more...

New This thesis contains the complete results of a five-year study into the italic design process. It consists of 279 pages and almost 200 illustrations. The goals are to describe and document the process used by designers to design italics for text typefaces and offer an approach to designing contemporary italics. Read more...

Type design stretches my brain but calligraphy feeds my soul. Here are a few articles highlighting individual projects, followed by a gallery of images from other works. Read more...