David Jones lives in Sheffield, UK. The characteristic gritstone of the surrounding landscape's bedrock inspires some designs with its roughness whereas others are worn smooth by the repeat action of the grindstone. The crucible is a melting point, where all cultures are mixed.

David Jones has a technical background in programming, and an MA from the University of Cambridge. An expert in the finer details of Unicode, the OpenType specification, tooling, and Python programming.