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Had fun in Vermont with @thejoenewton

Had fun in Vermont with @thejoenewton

Had fun in Vermont with @thejoenewton

Had fun in Vermont with @thejoenewton

Had fun in Vermont with @thejoenewton

Our two most recent releases, Edgar and Cassis, have received one of our industry’s highest honors — they are both winners at this year’s TDC Type Design competition! @typedirectors
We are doubly honored and proud. #tdc72

Edgar is a spirited oldstyle face for long-form reading whose design is grounded in a couple of different strands of type history — as well as Tobias Frere-Jones’ personal and family histories. Cassis is a generous, soulful sansserif for branding, identity, and titling work; it was inspired by vernacular signage and lettering on both sides of the Atlantic. Check out both typefaces at frerejones.com!

Edgar designed by Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger
Cassis designed by Nina Stössinger

Our two most recent releases, Edgar and Cassis, have received one of our industry’s highest honors — they are both winners at this year’s TDC Type Design competition! @typedirectors
We are doubly honored and proud. #tdc72

Edgar is a spirited oldstyle face for long-form reading whose design is grounded in a couple of different strands of type history — as well as Tobias Frere-Jones’ personal and family histories. Cassis is a generous, soulful sansserif for branding, identity, and titling work; it was inspired by vernacular signage and lettering on both sides of the Atlantic. Check out both typefaces at frerejones.com!

Edgar designed by Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger
Cassis designed by Nina Stössinger

Our two most recent releases, Edgar and Cassis, have received one of our industry’s highest honors — they are both winners at this year’s TDC Type Design competition! @typedirectors
We are doubly honored and proud. #tdc72

Edgar is a spirited oldstyle face for long-form reading whose design is grounded in a couple of different strands of type history — as well as Tobias Frere-Jones’ personal and family histories. Cassis is a generous, soulful sansserif for branding, identity, and titling work; it was inspired by vernacular signage and lettering on both sides of the Atlantic. Check out both typefaces at frerejones.com!

Edgar designed by Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger
Cassis designed by Nina Stössinger

Last Thursday at the legendary @stbridefoundation in London I was honored and thrilled to give the annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture, my longest talk to date and likely also my most rigorously prepared (even though — or just because — the structure remained amorphous, meandering, as appropriate to the subject). While the talk was a @frerejones Cassis case study at heart, I was grateful to have the opportunity to also touch upon a few other recent projects in the larger context of how I work, how I think, and how my move to New York has impacted the way I look at, and think about, letterforms.

Thank you to @stbridefoundation for having me, to @beckychilcott for taking such good care of me, to everyone listed in the thank-you slide pictured, and to everyone who came out to listen — and maybe even share a couple of pints afterwards. Good times.

(I am definitely available for speaking opportunities in London and other cities. Quite into this whole “traveling to speak” thing!)

Phots courtesy of @stbridefoundation

Last Thursday at the legendary @stbridefoundation in London I was honored and thrilled to give the annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture, my longest talk to date and likely also my most rigorously prepared (even though — or just because — the structure remained amorphous, meandering, as appropriate to the subject). While the talk was a @frerejones Cassis case study at heart, I was grateful to have the opportunity to also touch upon a few other recent projects in the larger context of how I work, how I think, and how my move to New York has impacted the way I look at, and think about, letterforms.

Thank you to @stbridefoundation for having me, to @beckychilcott for taking such good care of me, to everyone listed in the thank-you slide pictured, and to everyone who came out to listen — and maybe even share a couple of pints afterwards. Good times.

(I am definitely available for speaking opportunities in London and other cities. Quite into this whole “traveling to speak” thing!)

Phots courtesy of @stbridefoundation

Last Thursday at the legendary @stbridefoundation in London I was honored and thrilled to give the annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture, my longest talk to date and likely also my most rigorously prepared (even though — or just because — the structure remained amorphous, meandering, as appropriate to the subject). While the talk was a @frerejones Cassis case study at heart, I was grateful to have the opportunity to also touch upon a few other recent projects in the larger context of how I work, how I think, and how my move to New York has impacted the way I look at, and think about, letterforms.

Thank you to @stbridefoundation for having me, to @beckychilcott for taking such good care of me, to everyone listed in the thank-you slide pictured, and to everyone who came out to listen — and maybe even share a couple of pints afterwards. Good times.

(I am definitely available for speaking opportunities in London and other cities. Quite into this whole “traveling to speak” thing!)

Phots courtesy of @stbridefoundation

Last Thursday at the legendary @stbridefoundation in London I was honored and thrilled to give the annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture, my longest talk to date and likely also my most rigorously prepared (even though — or just because — the structure remained amorphous, meandering, as appropriate to the subject). While the talk was a @frerejones Cassis case study at heart, I was grateful to have the opportunity to also touch upon a few other recent projects in the larger context of how I work, how I think, and how my move to New York has impacted the way I look at, and think about, letterforms.

Thank you to @stbridefoundation for having me, to @beckychilcott for taking such good care of me, to everyone listed in the thank-you slide pictured, and to everyone who came out to listen — and maybe even share a couple of pints afterwards. Good times.

(I am definitely available for speaking opportunities in London and other cities. Quite into this whole “traveling to speak” thing!)

Phots courtesy of @stbridefoundation

Last Thursday at the legendary @stbridefoundation in London I was honored and thrilled to give the annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture, my longest talk to date and likely also my most rigorously prepared (even though — or just because — the structure remained amorphous, meandering, as appropriate to the subject). While the talk was a @frerejones Cassis case study at heart, I was grateful to have the opportunity to also touch upon a few other recent projects in the larger context of how I work, how I think, and how my move to New York has impacted the way I look at, and think about, letterforms.

Thank you to @stbridefoundation for having me, to @beckychilcott for taking such good care of me, to everyone listed in the thank-you slide pictured, and to everyone who came out to listen — and maybe even share a couple of pints afterwards. Good times.

(I am definitely available for speaking opportunities in London and other cities. Quite into this whole “traveling to speak” thing!)

Phots courtesy of @stbridefoundation

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

We are delighted that Nina Stössinger will be flying over from the US next week, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture on 2 April.

You’ll be able to join us online or in-person – we’d love to see you there. Ticket link in bio!

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones
@alphabettes_org
@eyemagazine_

Amtrak willing, I’m heading to Richmond VA soon for this talk on Thursday! (Please don’t ask me about the talk just yet, I’m busy finishing the slides lol.) I’m excited — it’ll be my first visit to Richmond, and VCU, and the ICA. If you’re in Richmond, please join us!
Warm thanks to @daleluiza and @herdimas.anggara of @vcuartsgraphicdesign for the invite, and @highfructosecornsirep for the great poster!

Type Talk, SMOR edition volume 1.

Clips from a conversation with @ninastoessinger about the origins and ideas behind the typeface SMOR.

Nina talks about how the pointed pen held sideways helped develop the line quality and subtle flaring in SMOR’s outline.
Check it out now on our website overlaptype.com

#graphicdesign #typefacedesign #fonts #displaytype #typism

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

Our new release Cassis is available in a wide range of weights from a spare Thin to a dense and forceful Black, and covers a wide range of Latin-based languages.

Cassis presents a powerful voice for branding, identity, and tiling work. This may be a clean and crisp geo sans, but it’s human, affable, opinionated. It’s optimized for slightly larger sizes, though the middling weights can work for smaller runs of text as well (try tracking them out a little bit).

Take the fonts for a spin yourself at frerejones.com — reminder that we not only have type testers on the website, but free trial fonts available for download as well! And if you’re not sure these fonts do what you need them to, drop us a line.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics in this post are by @elizabethcareysmith and @ninastoessinger

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com (link in bio)!

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

“A few weeks after I graduated from the TypeMedia program in The Hague, I started drawing a new sansserif,” writes Nina Stössinger: and a couple of years after that, Nina moved from Europe to the delirious visual cacophony of New York City, and that same typeface-in-progress received a whole new bucketload of inspiration.

In our newest blog post, Nina recounts the thinking and the 11-year story behind their new type family Cassis — a generous geometric sans that takes inspiration from lettering spotted in Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States, and is now out as Nina’s first release in the Frere-Jones Type library.

Read the story behind Cassis, and check out the fonts, via the links in our bio!

Image in slide 6 © Rigi-Bahnen AG

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

Informed by early- through midcentury lettering and signpainting from designer Nina Stössinger’s native Switzerland and the United States, our new release Cassis draws from history and geometry without being limited by either. You might describe this soulful sansserif as a geometric sans, but it is more human than ‘clean’ — its geometry is warm, lived in, alive. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

We are delighted to announce that Nina Stössinger will be joining us on 2 April 2026, to deliver our annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture.

Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents
Thursday 2 April 2026
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm
£9, £12, £14
Ticket link in bio!

“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

@ninastoessinger
@frerejones

New release! Cassis is a generous, soulful sansserif with more interest in personality than perfection. It is our first retail family entirely designed by our Senior Designer, Nina Stössinger.

Cassis is designed to project affable confidence and offer compelling density at larger sizes. It presents swelled curves, reaching terminals, and a teetering balance of stroke weights, infusing its geometric underpinnings with plenty of flavor. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Animation/graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

New release! Cassis is a generous, soulful sansserif with more interest in personality than perfection. It is our first retail family entirely designed by our Senior Designer, Nina Stössinger.

Cassis is designed to project affable confidence and offer compelling density at larger sizes. It presents swelled curves, reaching terminals, and a teetering balance of stroke weights, infusing its geometric underpinnings with plenty of flavor. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Animation/graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

New release! Cassis is a generous, soulful sansserif with more interest in personality than perfection. It is our first retail family entirely designed by our Senior Designer, Nina Stössinger.

Cassis is designed to project affable confidence and offer compelling density at larger sizes. It presents swelled curves, reaching terminals, and a teetering balance of stroke weights, infusing its geometric underpinnings with plenty of flavor. A powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work, the Cassis family contains seven weights from a spare Thin through a forceful Black, and supports over 200 Latin-based languages.

Cassis designed by @ninastoessinger
Animation/graphics by @elizabethcareysmith

Try and buy Cassis at frerejones.com — link in bio!

One day into 2026 and I hit my “best NYC celebrity sighting” which wasn’t even on my bingo card. DOUBLED! Here they are both after swearing in / speaking at the inauguration of Mayor Mamdani! what are the chances! 😊 I fangirled uncontrollably and thanked them both in ways that were terribly inarticulate and probably uncomfortable and they were very sweet and gracious.
(Yes I am terrible at selfies and ESPECIALLY in heightened states of excitement)

Amazing scene - when they rose to leave after their meal, everyone in this random Italian restaurant (patrons and workers) was super excited to be in their presence, wanted to chat with them and take photos, and when they left we rose to a standing ovation

One day into 2026 and I hit my “best NYC celebrity sighting” which wasn’t even on my bingo card. DOUBLED! Here they are both after swearing in / speaking at the inauguration of Mayor Mamdani! what are the chances! 😊 I fangirled uncontrollably and thanked them both in ways that were terribly inarticulate and probably uncomfortable and they were very sweet and gracious.
(Yes I am terrible at selfies and ESPECIALLY in heightened states of excitement)

Amazing scene - when they rose to leave after their meal, everyone in this random Italian restaurant (patrons and workers) was super excited to be in their presence, wanted to chat with them and take photos, and when they left we rose to a standing ovation