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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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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 75,000 copies.

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Lauren Dickens

Lauren Dickens is a graphic designer, art director, and basketball enthusiast living and working in Austin, Texas. With over a decade of experience in the industry, she's developed a broad set of skills, ranging from typography and illustration to brand identity development and copywriting. Through all these practices she focuses on thought-forward design, and strives to create work that is clear & communicative, witty, and at times provocative.

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