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Jim Parkinson was born in Richmond, California, in 1941, and he’s been lettering ever since. He has been obsessed with type for the past thirty-five years. Doing business as Parkinson Type Design, Jim specializes in designing typefaces and typographic logos. In addition to his custom font work, Jim has designed dozens of retail fonts. In addition to the typefaces he has released through Parkinson Type Design, he has designed exclusive fonts for Adobe, Monotype, FontShop, The Font Bureau, Chank and ITC. His typographic logos appear on the covers of many magazines and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, InStyle, El Graphico, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Free Pree, The Montreal Gazette, The National Post and Ilta=Sanomat.
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