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 fou ...

(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 research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

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 Master of Fine Arts, Masters of Fine Arts degrees to students completing a two-year course in g ...

, the Book Arts Institute at

Wells College Wells College was a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, a village in the Finger Lakes region of the state. From its founding in 1868 until it became coeducational in 2005, Wells was a women's college. The college maintained acad ...

, 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 Silas ...

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 ...

lower case types in the 19th century.

Typefaces

*Verlag (with H&FJ) 1996 * Gotham (with H&FJ) 2001 *Chronicle (with H&FJ) 2002 *Sentinel (with H&FJ) 2002 *Tungsten (with H&FJ)

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Hoefler & Frere-JonesCooper Type ProgramMonotype
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 Canadian women graphic designers {{Design-bio-stub