James Puckett
Designer at Dunwich Type Founders
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Puckett is a type designer and studio founder with 11 years of experience based in Boulder, Colorado, leading Dunwich Type Founders where he designs retail and custom typefaces such as the Armitage, Ironstrike, and Lorimer families. He manages the full design lifecycle—from research and prototyping to QA and production—and has collaborated with clients including Sappi Fine Papers and the NFL. James has extended his practice across writing systems, developing and testing type for Devanagari and Kannada and releasing fonts and testing tools as open-source resources on GitHub. He also founded the Typedrawers community and taught university-level typography, demonstrating a mix of hands-on craft, community-building, and pedagogy. An avid curator of typographic history, he has amassed and edited over 1,400 posts for DailyTypeSpecimen.com, revealing a deep archival interest that informs his contemporary design work.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Graphic Design, Graphic Design, BFA Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University
English
Github Skills (22)
kannada9
latin9
google-fonts8
fonts8
wordpress-plugin4
foundry3
shortcode3
wordpress-admin3
webfonts2
typeface2
wordpress2
testing2
opentype2
python2
python-scripts2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DunwichType/Padyakke_Libre
Sep 2015 - Dec 2022
F/OSS/Libre font for Kannada and Latin
Contributions:11 releases, 3 commits, 22 pushes in 7 years 4 months
google-fontsosslibrelatinfont
DunwichType/RhodiumLibre
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:4 releases, 8 pushes, 5 tags in 4 months
devanagariosslibrelatinfont
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