Education
Butterick graduated with a Bachelor in visual and environmental studies from Harvard University.
Butterick graduated with a Bachelor in visual and environmental studies from Harvard University.
He has worked for The Font Bureau and founded his own website design company, Atomic Vision (purchased by Red Hat in 1999). Expanding Typography for Lawyers, Butterick published Practical Typography as a "web-based book" in July 2013. He later earned a Juris Doctor at the University of California, Los Angeles and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2007.
Butterick’s typeface designs include:
Foreign Font Bureau
Wessex (1993), transitional text serif inspired by Bulmer and Caledonia
Herald Gothic (1993), a bevelled sans-serif
Berlin Sans (1994, part), a flared sans-serif
Hermes (1995), a blocky sans-serif
Alix, a typewriter font
Self-released
Equity, an updating of the 1930s body text serif design Ehrhardt.
Features grades designed to suit different types of paper and printers, and separate small caps fonts intended for use in Word. Concourse, loosely inspired by Dwiggins" geometric sans-serif design Metro.
Features stylistic alternates and small caps. Triplicate, a monospaced slab serif design
Advocate, a caps-only slab and sans serif design.
Reminiscent of mid-century American college sports team lettering, corporate logos and Bank Gothic.
Somewhat resembles an expansion of Herald Gothic.