Biographical Note

John Berry is an editor & typographer who is developing new typographic strategies for digital publishing. He has been a program manager with the Fonts team at Microsoft, where he established improved typographic standards for Windows and other Microsoft products and managed the core Western fonts and web fonts. He is the former editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper and lower case) and founding editor of U&lc Online. He is the author of Dot-font: talking about fonts and Dot-font: talking about design (Mark Batty Publisher, 2006), and the editor of Language culture type (ATypI/Graphis, 2002), Contemporary newspaper design, and U&lc: influencing design & typography. John has a deep and eclectic background in both editing and typography; he has made a career for more than twenty-five years in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco as an editor and book designer. He writes and consults extensively on typography, and he has won numerous awards for his book designs. He is president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) and has been on the board of directors since 2000; he is a former director of the Type Directors Club in New York. He lives in Seattle with the writer Eileen Gunn.

Contact

525 19th Avenue East
Seattle WA 98112
mobile: (415) 203-9306
john [at] johndberry [dot] com
typographer [at] earthlink [dot] net