Tobias Frere-Jones

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tobias Frere-Jones
Occupation	Designer
Date Of Birth	Aug 28, 1970(1970-08-28)
Age	54
Country	United States
Birth City	United States of America
Horoscope	Leo

Tobias Frere-Jones Biography

Tobias Frere-Jones is one of the most popular and richest Designer who was born on August 28, 1970 in United States of America, United States. Tobias FrereJones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones born August 28, 1970) is an American type designer based at New York City. He runs his own business Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program.

Frere-Jones was married to with Dr. Christine Annabelle Bateup in 2006.

Among his typefaces are Gotham which was used by the Obama 2008 presidential campaign, and Archer which has been used by Martha Stewart Living and Wells Fargo.

Many of Frere-Jones’ typefaces are extremely large families designed for professional users, for instance Mallory which as of 2019 had 110 styles. Organisations that commissioned work from Frere-Jones have included GQ magazine, the Whitney Museum, the Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living and the Essex Market. In 2014 German type designer Erik Spiekermann, who published Frere-Jones’ first typeface, described him as “one of the two or three best type designers in the world”.

He left Font Bureau in 1999. resigned from Font Bureau to return to New York, where he started working for Jonathan Hoefler who was later which was rebranded as Hoefler & Frere-Jones in 2005. As they worked together, the two worked in projects with The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living, Nike, Pentagram, GQ, Esquire magazine, The New Times, Business 2.0, and The New York Times Magazine. In 2014, Frere-Jones stopped working with Hoefler and brought a lawsuit against Hoefler which was settled with an out of court settlement later that year. Then, he founded his own business, Frere-Jones Type, which introduced its first retail family, Mallory, in 2015.

Tobias Frere-Jones Net Worth

Tobias Frere-Jones is one of the richest Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tobias Frere-Jones 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Many of FrereJones designs of the 1990s, including Reactor was a striking design and expressive in his “grunge typography” style of the time. Some were designed specifically for Neville Brody. But he also stated in a 1994 piece in which he said that “grunge has firmly dated itself and many are already tired of it.” A review in 2012 written by Christopher Hamamoto described Frere- Jones’ later work as being built upon “formality and practicality”, and an article in Businessweek article noted that Frere-Jones later typefaces was generally favored “a cleaner style based on historic typefaces”. Frere-Jones’ Font family Gotham was inspired by the the lettering of New York public buildings, and his subsequent sans-serif family Mallory was designed to appear in concept “autobiographical”, referring to his British family, and was designed to combine the best features from British typography with those of American typography.

After obtaining the BFA in 1992 from the Rhode Island School of Design He was hired by Font Bureau in Boston, becoming the Senior Designer. He designed a variety of the fonts that Font Bureau’s most recognized, including Interstate. He was appointed to in the Yale School of Art faculty in 1996 and is a professor of the design of type at Yale alongside Matthew Carter and Nina Stossinger.

In 2006, Frere-Jones received the Gerrit Noordzij Prize, an award given by The Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) to honor innovations in type design. In 2013 he received the AIGA Medal and won the National Design Award for Communication Design from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 2019.

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Who is Tobias Frere-Jones Dating?

According to our records, Tobias Frere-Jones married to Christine Annabelle Bateup. As of December 1, 2023, Tobias Frere-Jones’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Tobias Ranked on the list of most popular Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tobias Frere-Jones celebrates birthday on August 28 of every year.

What happened between Hoefler and Frere-Jones?

Mr. Frere-Jones, in a lawsuit filed late Thursday, accuses Mr. Hoefler of luring him to the company in 1999 with the false promise that they would be 50-50 partners. Each time he asked to put in writing the terms of the partnership — valued at $40 million, according to the lawsuit — he was told the timing was wrong.

Where was Tobias Frere-Jones born?

New York, NY

What does Gotham font look like?

CategorySans-serif
Variations| Gotham Rounded, Gotham Condensed, Gotham Narrow, Gotham X-Narrow, Gotham Bold

What fonts did Jonathan Hoefler create and for what company?

Perhaps his best-known work is the Hoefler Text family of typefaces, designed for Apple Computer and now appearing as part of the Macintosh operating system.

How do I get Gotham font?

You can get the font from Hoefler’s site at https://www.typography.com/fonts/gotham/styles. Packages range in price up to the complete bundle (all styles and weights) for $996 for one computer.