Elliot Stocks
Senior Staff Designer, Adobe Fonts at Margin Media, Ltd.
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarElliot Stocks is a senior design leader and author with nearly two decades of experience across web, print, and branding, and a decade-long specialist focus on typography and type systems. He has led design teams as Creative Director, founded two magazines, and shaped typographic discourse as Editor in Chief of Google Fonts Knowledge and a returning Senior Staff Designer at Adobe Fonts. His second book, Universal Principles of Typography (2024), and roughly 80 international speaking engagements reflect a rare mix of hands-on practice, pedagogy, and industry influence. Based in Bristol, he runs Margin Media while consulting on large platform projects, bringing both editorial rigor and product-minded thinking to type, brand, and digital systems. An accomplished musician as well, he often blends creative disciplines to surface unexpected typographic solutions.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (24)
opentype10
fonts10
woff10
truetype10
google-fonts10
axis6
react5
letter5
linux5
javascript5
variable-fonts4
windows4
api4
flux4
macos4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elliotjaystocks/choosing-type-checklist
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year
elliotjaystocks/today-soon
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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