Kyle Benson
Senior Brand Designer at GitHub
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Benson is a senior brand designer with 11 years of experience shaping visual and typographic systems for tech-forward companies and his own studio. Currently at GitHub after leadership roles at Webflow and Intercom, he blends hands-on art direction with systems thinking to deliver cohesive brand and web experiences. He founded Very Cool Studio, where he develops custom, commercially licensed typefaces—a detail that underlines his rare combination of branding and type-design craft. Earlier work as a font engineer at Apple and a postgraduate certificate in Type Design from Cooper Union reinforce his expertise in multilingual typography and production-ready fonts. He also brings teaching experience from BYU, translating professional practice into curriculum for senior-level branding students. Based in Oakland, Kyle pairs studio entrepreneurship with enterprise brand leadership, consistently bridging creative strategy and technical execution.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Certificate Type Design, Post Graduate Certificate Type Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Technology & Engineering Education, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Technology & Engineering Education at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (18)
variable-fonts7
font-size7
typography6
typeface6
webfonts6
fonts4
automator4
google-fonts3
markdown3
python2
git2
linux1
bash1
flyte1
computer-vision1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jakefleming/idiotproof
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
A font proof for idiots
Contributions:145 commits, 139 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
font
kylewaynebenson/notch
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 14 pushes in 22 days
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