Tobias Frere-Jones operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program.
10 Facts About Tobias Frere-Jones
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Tobias Frere-Jones is a son of Robin Carpenter Jones, who wrote for advertising agencies, and his British wife, the former Elizabeth Frere, daughter of Alexander Stuart Frere.
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Tobias Frere-Jones's brother is music critic Sasha Frere-Jones and his great-grandfather was writer Edgar Wallace.
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Tobias Frere-Jones created a number of the typefaces that are Font Bureau's best known, among them Interstate.
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Tobias Frere-Jones joined the Yale School of Art faculty in 1996, and teaches type design there alongside Matthew Carter and Nina Stossinger.
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In 2014 Tobias Frere-Jones ended his work with Hoefler and filed a lawsuit against him which was resolved in an out-of-court settlement later that year.
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Tobias Frere-Jones then established his own company, Frere-Jones Type, which released its first retail family, Mallory, in 2015.
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In 2006, Tobias Frere-Jones received the Gerrit Noordzij Prize, an award given by The Royal Academy of Art to honor innovations in type design.
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Many of Tobias Frere-Jones' typefaces are extremely large families designed for professional users, for instance Mallory which as of 2019 had 110 styles.
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Organisations that commissioned work from Tobias Frere-Jones have included GQ magazine, the Whitney Museum, the Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living and the Essex Market.