We make fonts that make your design work easier and more enjoyable.
We make fonts that make your design work easier and more enjoyable.
We know what designers look for and need from a great typeface, because we use type, too. We believe that great type should be accessible to all, whether you're a student or working at a large company.
We made this for you.
Meet the team!
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Riley Cran
Riley is the founder and lead designer at Lettermatic, and his job is to draw letters all day. Beginning his career primarily in branding and packaging design, his graphic design work has been recognized by Communication Arts, HOW magazine, LogoLounge, Gestalten Publishing, AIGA, and others. Aspiring to create work that combines character and function, Riley merges historical influences with fresh, contemporary solutions for clients such as Dropbox, Yale, Starbucks, Microsoft, Google, Condé Nast, Notre Dame, Deutsche Telekom, CBC, Bonnier, Meredith, and others. Riley co-founded the collaborative type foundry Lost Type in 2011, and founded Lettermatic in 2020. Riley is in the top 1% of Philip Glass listeners worldwide, apparently.
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Heather Cran
Heather’s first business card job title read “alphabet enthusiast,” and the sentiment has only deepened in the decade since. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in design, Heather worked as a graphic designer for several years before shifting her practice to focus on typeface design. Her typographic experience as a practicing designer helps her to create typefaces that anticipate designers’ needs and are intuitive and fun to use. Heather lives and works together with her husband Riley in Vancouver, where she loves to cook, craft, and play relaxing video games after-hours. You’ll rarely find her wearing anything that could be considered a neutral color.
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Danelle Cheney
Danelle has been obsessed with drawing letters for quite some time, judging by the intricate bubble alphabets on her grade school notebooks. She finds type to be the ultimate design challenge, and especially loves creating how-to materials to make sure designers get the most out of their typefaces. In her spare time, Danelle organizes Salt Lake Lettering Club, a local community meetup group, binges podcasts, and goes hiking in the mountains of Utah with her partner and their cat.
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Margaret Chronister
Margaret is a designer in Vancouver specializing in typography and illustration. After graduating from the Emily Carr School of Art and Graphic Design, she worked for Whistler and Blackcomb, Bravo Children’s Wear, Cotton Company, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and others. Her experience using type and drawing custom type for her clients gives her a particular view into what designers are looking for in their design projects for clientele. When she isn’t working, she’s illustrating children’s books and baking colorful cakes, gingerbread and truffles.
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Danielle McCray
Danielle is a Brand Designer & Illustrator based in South Florida. Growing up playing basketball, she grew to love design through the athlete signature shoes released by various sport brands and the visual story-telling that was told through the design, packaging, and campaigns. Often drawing and thinking up new designs on the team bus in between basketball games and tournaments. Since 2015 she’s been a designer, continuing to tell a brand’s stories through visual elements. If I’m not designing and drawing, I like playing video games, watching anime, or playing basketball.
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Jane Solomon
Jane Solomon is a lexicographer and emoji expert based in Chicago. She began working with Lettermatic in 2019 as a historical researcher, and now focuses on font design and production. Jane’s 15+ years in lexicography includes work with Dictionary.com, Oxford, Cambridge, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Scholastic. Her path from word meaning to individual glyphs began with emoji. She’s on the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, the group that decides which new emoji pop up on our devices, and is the Senior Emoji Lexicographer at Emojipedia. Since 2021, Jane has been a member of the Word Panel of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Her children’s book The Dictionary of Difficult Words was published in 2019 and has sold over 40,000 copies.
Contributors
Rick Murphy
Illustrations
Anna Thomas
Graphic Design
Dave Bailey
Typeface Production
Bezzia, Parclo Sans, Parclo Serif, Really Sans
Dan Gneiding
Typeface Production
Parclo Sans, Parclo Serif
John Hudson
Technical Consultant
Bezzia, Parclo Sans, Parclo Serif, Really Sans
Travis McCleery
Design Consultation
Doing Better
Doing Better
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The text of this website is set in Really Sans ℣.
Fonts Designed By: Lettermatic
Illustrations By: Rick Murphy
Design By: Studio Freight
Site Development By: Studio Freight & Basement Studio
Assistance By: Travis McCleery
Developed with: Contentful, Stripe, Next.js, Vercel, and Github
We also make custom fonts!
Drop us a line to see if a custom font might be right for your next project.