Sara Soskolne (born 1970) is a Canadian
type designer
Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below.
A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production su ...
best known for her work at
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Hoefler&Co. (H&Co) is a digital type foundry (font design studio) in Woburn, Massachusetts (formerly New York City), founded by type designer Jonathan Hoefler. H&Co designs typefaces for clients and for retail on its website.
The company was foun ...
(H&FJ) type foundry on typefaces such as
Gotham. After ten years working in graphic design in Toronto, Soskolne attended the
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...
where she received her MA in 2003. She has taught type design at
Yale School of Art
The Yale School of Art is the art school of Yale University. Founded in 1869 as the first professional fine arts school in the United States, it grants Masters of Fine Arts degrees to students completing a two-year course in graphic design, painti ...
, the Book Arts Institute at
Wells College
Wells College is a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York. The college has cross-enrollment with Cornell University and Ithaca College. For much of its history it was a women's college.
Wells College is located in the Finger Lakes reg ...
, and New York’s
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
History
This school was started by ...
and the Cooper Type Certificate Program. Soskolne has written about the evolution of
sans-serif
In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than seri ...
lower case types in the 19th century.
Typefaces
*Verlag (with H&FJ) 1996
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Gotham (with H&FJ) 2001
*Chronicle (with H&FJ) 2002
*Sentinel (with H&FJ) 2002
*Tungsten (with H&FJ)
References
External links
Hoefler & Frere-JonesCooper Type Program
1970 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Reading
Canadian typographers and type designers
School of Visual Arts faculty
Wells College faculty
Yale School of Art faculty
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