Jim Parkinson was born in Richmond, California, in 1941, and he’s been lettering ever since. Doing business as Parkinson Type Design, Jim specializes in designing typefaces and typographic logos. In addition to custom design work he has designed dozens of retail fonts released by Parkinson Type Design. Jim’s font designs have also been published by Adobe, Agfa/Monotype, FontShop, The Font Bureau, Chank, and ITC

His typographic logos appear on the covers of many magazines and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, InStyle, The Wall Street Journal, The Detroit Free Press, The Montreal Gazette, El Grafico, the National Post and Men’s Journal.

Jim Parkinson was born in Richmond, California, in 1941, and he’s been lettering ever since. Doing business as Parkinson Type Design, Jim specializes in designing typefaces and typographic logos. In addition to custom design work he has designed dozens of retail fonts released by Parkinson Type Design. Jim’s font designs have also been published by Adobe, Agfa/Monotype, FontShop, The Font Bureau, Chank, and ITC