Eben Sorkin
Art Director at Darden Studio
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorEben Sorkin is an art director and type designer with 12 years of professional experience creating custom type systems for clients including YouTube, Google, Spline 3D, and Darden Studio. As owner of Sorkin Type Co. and Art Director at Darden Studio, he blends hands-on font engineering with creative direction to solve diverse branding and legibility challenges. He designs across multiple scripts—Latin, Greek, Georgian, Cyrillic, and Devanagari—bringing multilingual fluency to projects that require cultural and technical nuance. Eben also teaches type design through Crafting Type and has served as an adjunct professor, reflecting a commitment to pedagogy and craft. Based in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, he pairs independent studio agility with agency-scale collaboration. A detail-oriented maker, he often bridges the gap between aesthetic intent and the technical constraints of digital typography.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (50)
opentype10
fonts10
bold10
slugify10
cjk10
quality-assurance10
typeface10
latin10
italic10
webfonts10
geometric10
font-size10
ufo10
phonetics10
unicode10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SorkinType/Denk-One
Jan 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 years 2 months
SorkinType/Gelasio
May 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 59 pushes, 7 comments in 2 years 4 months
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