Stephen Coles is an Editorial Director & Associate Curator at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. He publishes Fonts In Use and Typographica.


Stephen wrote the book The Anatomy of Type; he was a creative director at FontShop and a member of the FontFont TypeBoard; but his proudest moment was marrying Laura Serra.


PERSONAL PROJECTS
Chromeography  letters on cars
Fleurs Coiffeur Liquor  letters on buildings
The Mid-Century Modernist  not letters
Stüf Stuff  ephemeral residue

TALKS
A Typeface is a Chair  on selecting and using type
State of the Mart  on making and selling type
What’s the Use of “Fonts In Use”?
Pre-digital Type Specimens  on foundry ephemera at Letterform Archive
Webfonts Today  on the state of screen type in 2014
Chromeography

INTERVIEWS
Listgeeks 2011  Typekit 2015

PAST CLIENTS
101 Editions  Font Bureau  Identifont  MVB Fonts  Persona  Production Type  Schick Toikka  Type Network  Webtype

ELSEWHERE
 Twitter  typography
 Twitter  not typography
 Answers to type questions
 Pictures
 Bits of work

 Contact Stephen








Portrait (desktop only) by Laura Serra.