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Jim Parkinson was born in 1941 and he’s been lettering ever since. Doing business as Parkinson Type Design, Jim specializes in designing typefaces and typographic logos. Jim designs custom fonts for newspapers and magazines. He has also designed over three dozen retail fonts. In addition to the fonts released by Parkinson Type Design, Jim’s font designs have been published by Adobe, Agfa/Monotype, FontShop, The Font Bureau, and ITC. His typographic logos appear on the covers of many magazines and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, InStyle, El Graphico, The Detroit Free Press, The Montreal Gazette, The Orange County Register, the National Post, and Ilta=Sanomat.
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46 font families by Jim Parkinson
Industrial Gothic
family of 3 fonts from Monotype Imaging
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Dreamland
family of 3 fonts from Monotype Imaging
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Parkinson Electra®
family of 12 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Commerce Gothic
family of 1 font from Monotype Imaging
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Fancy Stuff
family of 1 font from Monotype Imaging
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
Generica Condensed
family of 6 fonts from Monotype Imaging
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two
family of 11 fonts from ITC
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
ITC Bodoni Twelve™
family of 9 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two™
family of 11 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two Pro™
family of 4 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two Std™
family of 4 fonts from Linotype
| available for Desktop, Web, App, Epub and Server
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