Jim Parkinson of USA
Born: Richmond, California, 1941
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.
Fonts by Jim Parkinson
Amador, Amboy, Avebury, Azuza, Balboa, Benicia, ITC Bodoni Six, ITC Bodoni Twelve, ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two, Bonita, Cabazon, FF Catch Words, Chuck, Commerce Gothic, Comrade, Diablo, Dreamland, El Grande, Fresno, Generica Condensed, FF GoldenGate Gothic, Hotel, Industrial Gothic, Jimbo, FF Matinee Gothic, Modesto, Mojo, Montara, FF Motel Gothic, Parkinson, Poster Black, Pueblo, Richmond, ITC Roswell, Showcard Gothic, Showcard Moderne, Sutro, Wigwag
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Activities
Type Design
Logo Design
Lettering
Related Links
• CreativePro: Logo Designer Jim Parkinson Sets Type First, by John D. Berry
• Fonts.com: Jim Parkinson
• Linotype Library Designers: Jim Parkinson
• MyFonts Creative Characters: Jim Parkinson
• Parkinson Type Design
• Phil's Fonts: WIT - An interview with Jim Parkinson and John Downer by Ralph Smith
• Font Bureau People: Jim Parkinson
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