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Okay Type [Jackson Cavanaugh]

Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh (b. Waterloo, IA, 1981) is a freelance graphic designer and independent type designer based in Brooklyn, NY, and/or Chicago. He founded Okay Type in 2009.

Jackson designed Alright Sans (2009, clean sans) and Alright Display (voguish hairline sans).

In 2012, he created The Harriet Series (with Harriet Text and Harriet Display subfamilies), a full Sotch Roman / Baskerville / didone family that won an award at TDC 2012.

In 2016, he was asked by Mac Lewis, artistic director at Playboy, to design a new headline typeface for the magazine. Cavanaugh designed a heavy slab serif for the occasion.

In 2019, he released the ultra-black typeface family Okay.

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