Font Bureau was founded in 1989 by type designer David Berlow and media strategist Roger Black. Headquartered in Boston, MA, the small foundry employs a staff of full-time designers and its library has been contributed to by the likes of Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, Jim Parkinson, John Downer, Leslie Cabarga, Cyrus Highsmith, Berlow himself, and others. “In a big way, all the designers whose work is published through Font Bureau are my latest teachers,” Berlow, a recipient of the SoTA Award, says in his Creative Characters interview. “From them I learn how to look at things related to type today from a variety of stylistic and entrepreneurial perspectives.”
Boston type designer. Started type career in 1978 working for Mergenthaler. Helped to develop the retail library of Bitstream, where he worked from 1982 to 1989. Started Font Bureau with Roger Black and other ex-Bitstream people in 1989. Initially worked for corporate clients, including Apple and Microsoft, for whom he helped build the first TrueType fonts.
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