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Hello, I’m Elliot! Designer, author, speaker, and all-round typography nerd. You might know my work with Adobe Fonts & Google Fonts, or the magazines 8 FacesLagom.

Book cover for Universal Principles of Typography

Universal Principles of Typography

100 key concepts, theories, and guidelines for choosing, pairing, and using type. Published by Quarto in 2024, with a foreword by Ellen Lupton.

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Book cover for Fine Specimens

Fine Specimens

My next book! A curated collection of the best in contemporary type design, chock full of inspiration. To be published by Quarto in March 2026 and available to pre-order now!

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My podcast

Hello, Type Friends! is a podcast, on which I sit down with a friend for an informal chat about life, work, and, well... whatever comes up. No script. No plans. And no Bézier curves.

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A book! A book tour! A book tour newsletter!

Today’s the day: my new book, Fine Specimens, is out! I’m having the release party at Bookhaus in Bristol tonight, and that’s just the beginning: stop number one on a five-date book tour — which I’ll be documenting via my travel-focused pop-up newsletter, Notes from a different (type)setting. Apparently I love making extra work for myself.

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My next speaking gig

beyond tellerrand

27th April 2026
Düsseldorf, Germany 🇩🇪

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