David Jonathan Ross

AKA “DJR,” he is the 2018 recipient of the Prix Charles Peignot award, which is awarded to designers under the age of 35 who have made an outstanding contribution to type design. He has always embraced emerging font technology: he was one of the first designers to release retail variable fonts, and regularly publishes variable and color font experiments via his Font of the Month Club. He has consulted on large open source projects for Google, including the conversion of many families to variable format.