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James Todd (or: JTD Type) [James Hultquist-Todd]

Chicago, IL, and/or Fredonia, NY, and/or Philadelphia, PA-based designer, who runs James Todd Design.

Creator of the text family Garvis (2012), which was inspired by didones and the Dutch Fleischmann types.

In 2013, he designed the wood type revival family HWT Unit Gothic for Hamilton Wood Type Foundry. The Unit Gothic series was released by Hamilton Manufacturing Co. in 1907, and comprises a flexible range of widths from compressed to very wide.

In 2015, he published the contemporary didone optically corrected typeface family Essonnes [MyFonts link].

In 2016, James Todd designed the 6-style sans typeface family Cresta and his garalde take on the (normally didone) fat faces, Gastromond.

In 2017, he co-designed Biwa and Biwa Display, a grotesk typeface family, with Ian Lynam.

Typefaces from 2018: Chapman (a large Scotch roman typeface family with lots of pizzazz), Stack.

Typefaces from 2019: Elfreth (an informal blackletter), Glot (a 10-style flared terminal sans family by James Todd and Ian Lynam; see also Glot Round from 2020).

In 2021, he was part of a big effort by P22 to revive and extend Johnston's Underground to P22 Underground Pro [13 styles: Richard Kegler (1997), Paul D. Hunt (2007), Dave Farey (2021), James Todd (2021) and Patrick Griffin (2021) contributed at various stages].

In 2021, he released Cambium---a text family based on roman inscriptional lettering in which special attention was paid to trhe lowercase---at Future Fonts.

YTypefaces from 2022: Oculi.

Behance link. Dribble link. Old Fontspring link. Old URL. Future Fonts link.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in Illinois ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Garalde or Garamond typefaces ⦿ Type scene in Pennsylvania ⦿ Scotch Roman ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿