Book designer
Typographic consultant
Design writer
I’ve been practicing typography – the art of designing with type – for more than forty years, as well as writing and editing books about typography and design. My attention has always been focused on content, especially long-form text. What I do is ergonomic typography – type you can read.
Book & editorial design
Selected clients:
- Copper Canyon Press
- Mark Batty Publisher
- Microsoft ART
- Marquand Books
- Tachyon Publications
- Small Beer Press
- Family Violence Prevention Fund
Typographic consulting
Selected clients:
- Amazon (Door No. 3)
- Amazon (Tectonic)
- Google Docs
- Type Network
- Adobe | InDesign advisory board
- Microsoft
- Academy of American Poets
Writing about design & type
Selected writing:
- The faces of Microsoft (TYPE magazine)
- Jack the printer (Letterpress Archive)
- ATypI: the early years
- Adobe Originals
- ATF Collection
- Contemporary newspaper design
John D. Berry is responsible for the superb design of Content. The downloadable PDF of the entire book will give you a sense of just how hand-turned, artisanal and deliciously smart the interiors of this book are.
Cory Doctorow
Hardly anybody knows what typography is, whom it serves, how it works. With the exception of John Berry.
Erik Spiekermann
One of the best design writers and editors of the past decade.
Roger Black
His writing is truly engrossing. I should have wiped my reddened eyes and stopped reading him, but I just couldn’t.
Bruce Sterling
If you have a project you need help on, or a book to be designed, or you just want some typographic advice, please get in touch.
john@johndberry.com
+1 415–203–9306
