Biographical Note

John Berry is an editor and typographer who works both sides of the design/content divide. He is the former editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper and lower case) and of U&lc Online. He the author and designer 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 currently works as a program manager with Microsoft Typography. He lives in Seattle with the writer Eileen Gunn.

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