This page is an attempt to answer the frequent question “Where are the Black type designers?” The definition of type designer varies, from professionals who make a majority of their income in typeface design to those who have simply created a single font. This list applies the broadest definition; it includes anyone who identifies as Black and has worked in type design at some point in their career.
Adam Yeo
Agnès Brézéphin-Coulmin
Agyei Archer
Aleme Tadesse
Alonzo Felix
Anna Diagne
Baynham Goredema
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
Émilie Aurat
Forest Young
Gregory Gray
Hendrika Makilya
Kevin Adams
Kevin Karanja
Kombo Chapfika
Lomedy Mhako
Marks Salimu
O’Plérou Grebet
Samuel Mensah-Bonsu
Seyi Olusanya
Afrotype
Silas Munro
Simon Charwey
Victor Bagu
Wasbigo Obege
What Inspired this Page
The question asked in 2017.
The question asked in 2020, with many designers listed in replies, forming the basis of this database.
Talks on Black Type Designers & African Writing Systems
BIPOC Scholarships for Type Design & Lettering Education
Open for Applications
Letterform Archive offers a BIPOC scholarship in each of its public workshops and the Type West program.
Deadlines Passed (but may be recurring)expand
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Typography By and About African Americans
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