Sara Soskolne
Canadian type designer (born 1970)
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Sara Soskolne (born 1970) is a Canadian type designer best known for her work at Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ) type foundry on typefaces such as Gotham. After ten years working in graphic design in Toronto, Soskolne attended the University of Reading[1] where she received her MA in 2003.
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| Occupation | Type designer |
| Known for | Work done at Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Monotype |
| Notable work | Gotham typeface |
She has taught type design at Yale School of Art, the Book Arts Institute at Wells College, and New York's School of Visual Arts[2] and the Cooper Union's Type Certificate Program. Soskolne has written about the evolution of sans-serif lower case types in the 19th century.[3]
After the acquisition of Hoefler&Co by Monotype in 2021,[4] Solskone became a Creative Type Director[5][1] working on multiple typeface projects for various clients, including a new set of Gotham styles for use by the Obama Foundation.[6]
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)
- Gotham Slab Condensed, Gotham Stencil Condensed, and Gotham Inline Condensed were designed at Monotype and released in 2025 for the Obama Foundation[7]
